Belknap Press
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Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
$19.95 Read more“Maladies of Empire has a captivating writing style, is exhaustively researched, and is persuasive in argumentation. Jim Downs has written a game-changing book.”–Deirdre Cooper Owens, author of Medic
- Author: Downs, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 067429386X
- Language: English
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War by Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft
$24.00 Add to cartA Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2016
Today, nations increasingly carry out geopolitical combat through economic means. Policies governing everything from trade and investment to energy and exchange rat- Author: Blackwill, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 23 2017
- ISBN10: 0674979796
- Language: English
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Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
$24.95 Add to cartWinner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Winner of the American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation
Winner of the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award
Winner of the MAAH- Author: Brooks, Daphne A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0674292200
- Language: English
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The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations
$19.95 Add to cartHayek Book Prize Finalist
“Sweeping, authoritative and–for the times–strikingly upbe
An Economist Best Book of the Year
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year
A Financial Times Summer Reading Favorite- Author: Aghion, Philippe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 067429209X
- Language: English
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The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman
$24.95 Add to cartThe 10th anniversary edition
A Guardian Best Book about Deforestation
A New Scientist Best Book of the Year
A Taipei Times Best Book of the Year “A perfectly grounded account of what it is like to live- Author: Kopenawa, Davi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0674292138
- Language: English
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What the Best College Students Do
$18.95 Add to cart“The ‘best’ students are curious risk-takers who make connections across disciplines. By following those instincts–rather than simply chasing ‘success’–the best students achieved it…A wonderful ex
- Author: Bain, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0674293843
- Language: English
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Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
$35.95 Add to cartWinner of the Lionel Gelber Prize
An Economist Best Book of the Year A Financial Times Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year A Washington P
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist- Author: Vogel, Ezra F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: October 14 2013
- ISBN10: 0674725867
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Equality
$18.95 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
“A profound and optimistic call to action and reflection. For Piketty, the arc of history is long, but it does bend tow
A Public Books Best Book of the Year- Author: Piketty, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0674295463
- Language: English
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Capital and Ideology
$39.95 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller
The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary
An NPR Best Book of the Year- Author: Piketty, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1104
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0674980824
- Language: English
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Beyond Winning: Negotiating to Create Value in Deals and Disputes
$33.00 Add to cartConflict is inevitable, in both deals and disputes. Yet when clients call in the lawyers to haggle over who gets how much of the pie, traditional hard-bargaining tactics can lead to ruin. Too often, d
- Author: Mnookin, Robert H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: April 15, 2004
- ISBN10: 0674012313
- Language: English
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The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia
$39.95 Read moreA dramatic new telling of the dawn of modern East Asia, placing Korea at the center of a transformed world order wrought by imperial greed and devastating wars.
In the nineteenth century, Russia parti- Author: Jager, Sheila Miyoshi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0674983394
- Language: English
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Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé
$35.00 Add to cart“A gripping panoramic history that pairs ingenious excavation with enlightening explanation to relight the fire of feminist political identity at the very moment when we need it most.”―Tiya Mile
- Author: Cobbs, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 674258487
- Language: English
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Triumphs of Experience: The Men of the Harvard Grant Study
$27.50 Add to cartAt a time when many people around the world are living into their tenth decade, the longest longitudinal study of human development ever undertaken offers some welcome news for the new old age: our li
- Author: Vaillant, George E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 04 2015
- ISBN10: 674503813
- Language: English
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Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism
$35.00 Add to cart“A landmark book…[a] bold reframing of the history of the British Empire.”
An award-winning historian places the corporation–more than the Crown–at the heart of B
–Caroline Elkins, Foreign Affairs- Author: Stern, Philip J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0674988124
- Language: English
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The Making of the Bible: From the First Fragments to Sacred Scripture
$21.95 Add to cart“A landmark…If you have time to read only one book on the Bible this year, make sure that it is this one.”–Katherine J. Dell, Church Times
“Excellent…With a sure touch, the authors lead the reade- Author: Schmid, Konrad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0674293924
- Language: English
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Democracy’s Discontent: A New Edition for Our Perilous Times
$24.95 Add to cartA renowned political philosopher updates his classic book on the American political tradition to address the perils democracy confronts today.
The 1990s were a heady time. The Cold War had ended, and- Author: Sandel, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 28, 2022
- ISBN10: 0674270711
- Language: English
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The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition
$30.00 Add to cartEmily Dickinson, poet of the interior life, imagined words/swords, hurling barbed syllables/piercing. Nothing about her adult appearance or habitation revealed such a militant soul. Only poems, writte
- Author: Dickinson, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 696
- Publish Date: October 01, 2005
- ISBN10: 0674018249
- Language: English
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Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500
$39.95 Add to cartFrom the author of the acclaimed The Thirty Years War and Heart of Europe, a masterful, landmark reappraisal of German military history, and of the preconceptions about German militarism since before
- Author: Wilson, Peter H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: 14-Feb-23
- ISBN10: 0674987624
- Language: English
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The Four Realms of Existence: A New Theory of Being Human
$29.95 Read moreOne of the world’s leading experts on mind and brain takes us on an expedition that reveals a new view of what makes us who we are.
Humans have long thought of their bodies and minds as separate spher- Author: LeDoux, Joseph E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0674261259
- Language: English
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The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment Over 2,000 Years
$35.00 Add to cart“[A] tour de force of global history…Bosma has turned the humble sugar crystal into a mighty prism for understanding aspects of global history and the world in which we live.”–Los Angeles Review of
- Author: Bosma, Ulbe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0674279395
- Language: English
