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Cannibal Island
During the spring of 1933, Stalin's police rounded up nearly one hundred thousand people as part of the Soviet regime's "cleansing" of Moscow and Leningrad and deported them to …
Economics for the Common Good
From Nobel Prize-winning economist Jean Tirole, a bold new agenda for the role of economics in society When Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found …
A Brief History of Equality
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year“An opportunity for readers to see Piketty bring his larger argument about the origins of inequality …
Disturbance
WINNER PRIX FEMINA AND PRIX DU ROMAN NEWS A 2019 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (Evening Standard・New Statesman ・Lit Hub) Paris, January 7, 2015. Two terrorists who claim allegiance to ISIS …
Reason and Rationality
One of the world's most important political philosophers, Jon Elster is a leading thinker on reason and rationality and their roles in politics and public life. In this short book, …
Lost in the Sacred
Lost in the Sacred poses questions about the Muslim world that no other book by a Western writer has dared to ask. Focusing on the Arab Middle East, Dan Diner asks what caused the …
Musica Naturalis
Musica Naturalis delivers the first systematic account of speculative music theory as a discursive horizon for literary poetics. The title refers to the late medieval French poet …
Homo numericus
From Amazon to Tinder, from Google to Deliveroo, there is no facet of human life that the digital revolution has not streamlined and dematerialized. Its objective was to reduce …
A Brief Eternity
There is one fundamental thing that has changed in our societies since 1950: life has got longer. Over the last few generations, 20 or 30 years have been added to the duration of …
Prophets of the Past
Prophets of the Past is the first book to examine in depth how modern Jewish historians have interpreted Jewish history. Michael Brenner reveals that perhaps no other national or …
The Gunzburgs
In 1857 the Gunzburgs arrived in Paris from Russia with their large family, a retinue of business staff and extensive domestic help: personal assistants, secretaries, tutors, …