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The Case for Trump
In The Case for Trump, award-winning historian and political commentator Victor Davis Hanson explains how a celebrity businessman with no political or military experience triumphed …
Intent to Destroy: Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine
The full story of how and why Russia has tried to violently subjugate Ukraine across the centuries, and how Ukrainians have resisted Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine in …
The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius
The first biography of the dazzling and painful life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose As a little boy, Roger Penrose and his father discovered a sundial in a …
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 …
False Alarm
Hurricanes batter our coasts. Wildfires rage across the American West. Glaciers collapse in the Artic. Politicians, activists, and the media espouse a common message: climate …
The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
A top scholar reveals the most complete picture to date of how early human speech led to the languages we use today The emergence of language began with the apelike calls of our …
The End of Trauma
With "groundbreaking research on the psychology of resilience" (Adam Grant), a top expert on human trauma argues that we vastly overestimate how common PTSD is and fail to …
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire
A "sweeping, delightfully readable" (Wall Street Journal) new history of Assyria, the ancient civilization that set the model for future empires At its height in 660 BCE, the …
Ten Birds That Changed the World
From "a captivating storyteller" (Wall Street Journal), the natural history of humankind told through our long relationship with birds For the whole of human history, we have …
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
The Collapse of Parenting
In The Collapse of Parenting, internationally acclaimed author Leonard Sax argues that rising levels of obesity, depression, and anxiety among young people can be traced to parents …
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 …