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The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions--And How the World Lost Its Mind
Longlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Book of the Year. How life and the economy became a black box--a collection of systems no one understands, producing outcomes no one likes. …
The Buried City: Unearthing the Real Pompeii
The director of the Pompeii Archaeological Park offers a vivid view of daily life in the lost city, shares the latest discoveries, and reflects on preserving heritage. In The …
The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World
A tour of an ancient library transports readers to Mesopotamia, introducing us to its people, their ideas, and their humanity. The library of Ashurbanipal, Assyria's last great …
Arrival of the Fittest
In the early twentieth century, varied audiences took biology out of the hands of specialists and transformed it into mass culture, transforming our understanding of heredity in …
Afterall: Autumn/Winter 2024, Issue 58
The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story
Our idea of the Founders' America and its values is not true. We are not the heirs of the Founders, but we can be the heirs of Reconstruction and its vision for equality. There's …
The Odyssey
A landmark new translation of Homer's most popular epic by distinguished author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn. In 1961, the University of Chicago Press published Richmond …
Music Lessons: The Collège de France Lectures
A groundbreaking group of writings by French composer Pierre Boulez, his yearly lectures prepared for the Coll ge de France. Music Lessons marks the first publication in English …
Saving Orchids: Stories of Species Survival in a Changing World
A gorgeously illustrated ode to the beauty and significance of orchids--and to those fighting to save these unique plants across the globe. Until recently, a myriad of lifeforms …
How Life Works: A User's Guide to the New Biology
"Bold and intriguing."--Wall Street Journal - "Penetrating. . . . Provocative and profound."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) - "Offers plenty of food for thought."--Kirkus …
Paris Concealed
A comprehensive history of masks in France from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. Masks can conceal, disguise, or protect. They can guard status, inspire delight, or …
Building the Metropolis
A sweeping history of New York that chronicles the construction of one of the world's great cities. Between the 1880s and the 1930s, New York City experienced explosive growth as …