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China’s Good War
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the YearChinese leaders once tried to suppress memories of their nation’s brutal experience during World War II. Now they …
The English Conquest of Jamaica
In 1654, England’s Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell conceived a plan of breathtaking ambition: the conquest of Spain’s vast American empire. As the first phase of his Western Design, …
New Laws of Robotics
AI is poised to disrupt our work and our lives. We can harness these technologies rather than fall captive to them—but only through wise regulation.Too many CEOs tell a simple …
The Iran-Iraq War
From 1980 to 1988, Iran and Iraq fought the longest conventional war of the twentieth century. The tragedies included the slaughter of child soldiers, the use of chemical weapons, …
A Spirit of Trust
Forty years in the making, this long-awaited reinterpretation of Hegel’s The Phenomenology of Spirit is a landmark contribution to philosophy by one of the world’s best-known and …
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
A work of extraordinary ambition, originality, and rigor, Capital in the Twenty-First Century reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons …
The Dome of the Rock
The story of the Dome of the Rock is told in this presentation that combines what is known of the beautiful Muslim shrine in Jerusalem's Old City from the perspectives and …
Afghan Modern
Rugged, remote, riven by tribal rivalries and religious violence, Afghanistan seems to many a country frozen in time and forsaken by the world. Afghan Modern presents a bold …
The Classical Tradition
“A vast cabinet of curiosities.”—Stephen Greenblatt“Eclectic rather than exhaustive, less an encyclopedia than a buffet.”—Frederic Raphael, Literary ReviewHow do we get from the …
Making Civilizations
Distinguished historians of the ancient world analyze the earliest developments in human history and the rise of the first major civilizations, from the Middle East to India and …
The Habsburg Empire
This panoramic reappraisal shows why the Habsburg Empire mattered for so long to so many Central Europeans across divides of language, religion, and region. Pieter Judson shows …
Our Secret Discipline
The fundamental difference between rhetoric and poetry, according to Yeats, is that rhetoric is the expression of one’s quarrels with others while poetry is the expression (and …