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Marcus Aurelius
Experience the world of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and the tremendous challenges he faced and overcame with the help of Stoic philosophy “[Robertson] thoughtfully and readably …
Vagabond Princess
A captivating biography of one of the world’s greatest adventurers, the itinerant Mughal Princess Gulbadan, based on her long-forgotten memoir “Ruby Lal coaxes the remarkable …
Parenting with Hope
Raise Your Teens on a Rock-Solid Foundation As children mature, it’s important for parents to prepare for the unique changes and challenges of adolescence. With so many cultural …
Battleground
The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire region. More than a …
How to Enjoy Architecture
Charles Holland challenges us to look beyond the day-to-day familiarity of buildings to rediscover the pleasure of experiencing architecture Architecture is bound up with our …
A Beast's Descent Into Love
When thief Karim sneaks into a clandestine auction, he finds Asena, a beautiful young man with animal ears and a tail. On impulse, Karim steals him from the highest bidder and …
The Wannabe Fascists
Meet today's almost fascists and learn the warning signs to intercept them on the road from populism to dictatorship. With The Wannabe Fascists, historian Federico Finchelstein …
All Things Are Full of Gods
A world-renowned philosopher’s genre-defying exploration of the mystery of consciousness In a blossoming garden located far outside all worlds, a group of aging Greek gods have …
The Children of the Dead
The magnum opus of 2004 Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek—a spectral journey through the catastrophic history embedded in the landscape of Austria “The surface of [Jelinek’s] prose …
Spinoza
Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own time “An elegant, relevant …
Walter Benjamin and the Idea of Natural History
In this incisive new work, Eli Friedlander demonstrates that Walter Benjamin's entire corpus, from early to late, comprises a rigorous and sustained philosophical questioning of …
The Mack
The most up-to-date account of the Scottish architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s masterwork The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art is a monument of …