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Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire
A "lively, wide-ranging" (TheTimes, UK)cultural history of the goddess of love Aphrodite was said to have been born from the sea, rising out of a froth of white foam. But long …
House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France
"A joy to read...one of the most entertaining popular history books published in recent years" (Dan Jones, Sunday Times), this is the definitive history of the Capetians, the …
You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation
From one of America's top physicians, a "riveting," "fascinating," and "timely" (Nature) history of risk in medicine Every medical decision--whether to have chemotherapy, an …
The Ancient Art of Thinking For Yourself
How rhetoric-the art of persuasion-can help us navigate an age of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and political acrimonyThe discipline of rhetoric was the keystone of Western …
The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives
A scholar and bookmaker "breathes both books-as-objects and their creators back into life" (Financial Times) in this five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the …
The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic
An instant New York Times bestseller: An acclaimed legal scholar's "important" (New York Times) and "fascinating" (Economist) expos of how the Supreme Court uses unsigned and …
The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt
The definitive story of the seven Cleopatras, the powerful goddess-queens of ancient Egypt One of history's most iconic figures, Cleopatra is rightly remembered as a clever and …
Up in Arms
How support from foreign superpowers propped up-and pulled down-authoritarian regimes during the Cold War, offering lessons for today's great power competitionThroughout the Cold …
The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Making of the Modern Middle East
An award-winning scholar's account of an ancient city's descent into unprecedented communal violence--an event that would mark the end of the old Ottoman order and the beginning of …
City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle Époque
A top historian offers a new history of Paris's Belle poque, the luminous age of the Eiffel Tower and the Sacr -Coeur Basilica, but also of social unrest and violent clashes over …
The Gravity of Math
One of the preeminent mathematicians of the past half century shows how physics and math were combined to give us the theory of gravity and the dizzying array of ideas and insights …
The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between
A concise, definitive history of the precarious relationship among the US, China, and Taiwan As tensions over Taiwan escalate, the United States and China stand on the brink of a …