Spring 2022 International

Quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili reveals how 8 lessons from the heart of science can help you get the most out of life

From the acclaimed authors of Capitalism without Capital, radical ideas for restoring prosperity in today’s intangible economy

Revelatory talks about art and life with internationally acclaimed Israeli novelist Amos Oz

Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translator

New York Times bestseller
Journey into the universe through the most spectacular sights in astronomy in stereoscopic 3D

A kaleidoscopic history of how the 1960s and 1970s changed London forever

From a devoted reader and lifelong bookseller, an eloquent and charming reflection on the singular importance of bookstores

An inspiring anthology of writings by trailblazing women astronomers from around the globe

A rich and surprising exploration of the intelligence of bees

A revelatory tale of how the human brain develops, from conception to birth and beyond

How magicians exploit the natural functioning of our brains to astonish and amaze us

A fascinating exploration of the pentagon and its role in various cultures

The epic story of human evolution, from our primate beginnings more than five million years ago to the agricultural era

An energetic new translation of an ancient Roman masterpiece about a failed coup led by a corrupt and charismatic politician

An inviting and highly readable new translation of Aristotle’s complete Poetics—the first and best introduction to the art of writing and understanding stories

A treasury of astonishing mythic marvels—and the surprising truths behind them

A splendid new translation of an extraordinary work of modern literature—featuring facing-page commentary by Kafka’s acclaimed biographer

An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it—and explains why they have died today

A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial powers

Featuring never-before-seen drawings by the renowned contemporary artist, a beautiful facsimile edition that reveals the working process of an extraordinary creative mind

A unique collection of brilliant quotations from the legendary Pop artist

How the prized matsutake mushroom is remaking human communities in China—and providing new ways to understand human and more-than-human worlds

Enduring lessons from the desert soundscapes that shaped the Christian monastic tradition

A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age

A sweeping account of how the sea routes of Asia have transformed a vast expanse of the globe over the past five hundred years, powerfully shaping the modern world

How Robespierre’s career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracy

From acclaimed historian Michael Brenner, a mesmerizing portrait of Munich in the early years of Hitler's quest for power

A definitive biography of the French aristocrat who became one of democracy’s greatest champions

A panoramic history of rules in the Western world

A spellbinding look at the philosophical and moral implications of animal dreaming

Prescient essays about the state of our politics from the philosopher who predicted that a populist demagogue would become president of the United States

Why you don’t have a self—and why that’s a good thing

How an acceptance of our limitations can lead to a more fulfilling life and a more harmonious society

A feminist biography of the only woman to become prime minister of Israel

From the Nobel Prize–winning writer, a new collection of literary and personal essays

A look at how ideas of translation, migration, and displacement are embedded in the works of prominent artists, from Ovid to Tacita Dean

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography

A double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them—and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisis

One of the world’s preeminent cultural anthropologists leaves a last work that fundamentally reconfigures how we study most other cultures

How the “First State” has enabled international crime, sheltered tax dodgers, and diverted hard-earned dollars from the rest of us

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year
An Atlantic Best Book of the Year

A compelling account of South Africa’s post-Apartheid democracy

What an intensely divisive election means for American politics

A richly illustrated guide to the wildflowers and other flora of coastal Britain, Ireland and Northwest Europe

A comprehensive photographic guide to the gull species of the Western Palearctic

A beautifully illustrated exploration of the ways birds cohabit

A marvelously illustrated look at the world’s diverse forests and their ecosystems

A fun and fact-filled A–Z treasury for the insect lover in all of us

A garden of geologic delights for all Earthlings

A richly illustrated look at the natural history of moths

A fascinating and richly illustrated exploration of the natural history of fungi

An illustrated look at the art and science of paleontology from its origins to today

The most up-to-date and authoritative illustrated guide to the marvelous flying reptiles that dominated the skies of the Mesozoic for 160 million years

An acclaimed photographic guide to these marvelous and enigmatic birds—now in a new, updated edition

A timely story of a forgotten emotion

An examination of how modern art was impacted by the concept of prehistory and the prehistoric

A deep investigation of neoliberalism's proselytizers in Eastern Europe and the Global South

Bestselling novelist Alexander McCall Smith's charming account of how the poet W. H. Auden has helped guide his life—and how he might guide yours, too

A vivid and original account of one of Ireland’s greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian and literary biographer

The fascinating history of French words that have entered the English language and the fertile but fraught relationship between English- and French-speaking cultures across the world

Notable writers—including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow—celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the past

The first major English-language biography of Francisco Goya y Lucientes, who ushered in the modern era

The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model “Aryan” society in Norway during World War II

A landmark book that changed the story of Poland’s role in the Holocaust

"This is the book on porcelain we have been waiting for. . . . A remarkable achievement."—Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes
A sweeping cultural and economic history of porcelain, from the eighteenth century to the present

A major new history of the race between two geniuses to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Europe

A spellbinding new biography of Stalin in his formative years

A major new history of how democracy became the dominant political force in Europe in the second half of the twentieth century

A startling look at the unexpected places where violent hate groups recruit young people

A gripping and groundbreaking history of how ancient cultures developed and used biological, chemical, and other unconventional weapons of war

From Pulitzer Prize-finalist Steven Nadler, an engaging guide to what Spinoza can teach us about life’s big questions

From the author of Wittgenstein's Poker and Would You Kill the Fat Man?, the story of an extraordinary group of philosophers during a dark chapter in Europe's history

An engaging and enlightening account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludicrous stories drawn from around the world and across the ages

A practical guide to making good decisions in a world of missing data

A radical new approach to economic policy that addresses the symptoms and causes of inequality in Western society today

An entertaining mathematical exploration of the heat equation and its role in the triumphant development of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable

The riveting quest to construct the machine that would take on the world’s greatest human chess player—told by the man who built it

"Fascinating and exhilarating—Sean B. Carroll at his very best."—Bill Bryson, author of The Body: A Guide for Occupants

From acclaimed writer and biologist Sean B. Carroll, a rollicking, awe-inspiring story of the surprising power of chance in our lives and the world

A look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions—and how this shapes our everyday lives

Why people are not as gullible as we think

From Nobel Prize–winning physicist P. J. E. Peebles, the story of cosmology from Einstein to today

A finely drawn portrait of Einstein's sixteen months in Prague

A fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technology

How our beliefs about the soul have developed through the ages, and why an understanding of it still matters today

A fresh and sharp-eyed history of political conservatism from its nineteenth-century origins to today’s hard Right

A landmark work of political theory on the central importance of group identity and cultural pluralism in political life

The now-classic exploration of the role of women and the feminine in Buddhist Tantra

An essential exploration of the engineering aesthetics of celebrated structures from long-span bridges to high-rise buildings

“The most remarkable history of biology that has ever been written.”—Michel Foucault

How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world’s first genuinely global order

Drawing on new archaeological evidence, an authoritative history of Rome’s Great Fire—and how it inflicted lasting harm on the Roman Empire

A vivid portrait of the early years of biblical archaeology from the acclaimed author of 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed

From an acclaimed historian, a mesmerizing account of how medieval European Christians envisioned the paradoxical nature of holy objects

From the author of the definitive biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky, never-before-published lectures that provide an accessible introduction to the Russian writer's major works

From a leading figure in comparative literature, a major new survey of the field that points the way forward for a discipline undergoing rapid changes

Contemporary translations and adaptations of ancient Greek poet Callimachus by noted writer and critic Stephanie Burt

A bold new interpretation of Nat Turner and the slave rebellion that stunned the American South

A definitive intellectual history of landscape urbanism

"Open Democracy envisions what true government by mass leadership could look like."—Nathan Heller, New Yorker
How a new model of democracy that opens up power to ordinary citizens could strengthen inclusiveness, responsiveness, and accountability in modern societies

How international relations theory can be applied to a zombie invasion

Why most modern revolutions have ended in bloodshed and failure—and what lessons they hold for today's world of growing extremism

How referendums can diffuse populist tensions by putting power back into the hands of the people

A trenchant defense of hierarchy in different spheres of our lives, from the personal to the political

A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic world

The hard work required to make God real, how it changes the people who do it, and why it helps explain the enduring power of faith

A revealing look at Jewish men and women who secretly explore the outside world, in person and online, while remaining in their ultra-Orthodox religious communities

How our colleges and universities can respond to the changing hopes and needs of society

"A stunning and ambitious origins story."—Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award–winning and #1 New York Times–bestselling author

The remarkable history of how college presidents shaped the struggle for racial equality

A rare behind-the-scenes look at the work of forensic scientists

An urgent look at the relationship between guns, the police, and race

Why federalism is pulling America apart—and how the system can be reformed

Why the number of young Americans from mixed families is surging and what this means for the country’s future

How the attorney-client relationship favors the privileged in criminal court—and denies justice to the poor and to working-class people of color

"A must-read for anyone interested in solutions to America’s housing crisis."—Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
An in-depth look at America’s largest rental assistance program and how it shapes the lives...

How political protests and activism influence voters and candidates

Vital perspectives for the divided Trump era on what the Constitution's framers intended when they defined the extent—and limits—of presidential power

How transatlantic thinkers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries promoted the unification of Britain and the United States

A cultural history of the concept of pharmacy, both the material nature of drugs and the trade in medicine, in early modern China

The starkly different ways that American and French online news companies respond to audience analytics and what this means for the future of news

The first comprehensive look at how Victorian fiction and British psychoanalysis shaped each other

Why government outsourcing of public powers is making us less free

A leading political theorist’s groundbreaking defense of ideal conceptions of justice in political philosophy

Why there should be a larger role for the judiciary in American foreign relations

How a controversial biblical tale of conquest and genocide became a founding story of modern Israel

An innovative reassessment of philosopher P. F. Strawson’s influential “Freedom and Resentment”

How craigslist champions openness, democracy, and other vanishing principles of the early web

How the science of urban planning can make our cities healthier, safer, and more livable

The first book to explore how African American writing and art engaged with visions of Ethiopia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

A bold new approach to combatting the inherent corruption of representative democracy

A detailed historical look at how copyright was negotiated and protected by authors, publishers, and the state in late imperial and modern China

This audiobook brings together original pieces on Thoreau by twenty-seven of today's leading writers
With narration by William Hope, Barbara Barnes, Kaliswa Brewster, Kate Harper, Peter Marinker, and Ako Mitchell

Features essays by Jennifer Finney Boylan • Kristen Case •...

This audiobook narrated by bestselling author Mary Beard explores how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power

This audiobook narrated by Kelly Burke takes listeners on a mesmerizing trip across America to investigate the changing face of death in contemporary life

Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics

This audiobook narrated by Nancy Crane traces women’s journey to close the gender wage gap and sheds new light on the continued struggle to achieve equity between couples at home

This audiobook narrated by Katherine Fenton makes a provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal society

This poignant audiobook narrated by Laurel Lefkow exposes America’s troubled history of injustice to Indigenous people

This audiobook narrated by Dominican-born scholar Roosevelt Montás tells the story of how the Great Books transformed his life—and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgrounds

This audiobook narrated by Anand Jagatia reveals the hidden unity behind nature’s breathtaking complexity

Peter Marinker narrates a new translation of Felix Salten’s celebrated novel Bambi, capturing the emotional impact and rich meanings of the original story
With a preface read by John Chancer

This audiobook narrated by acclaimed author Anne-Marie Slaughter tells a story of crisis and change that can help us find renewed honesty and purpose in our personal and political lives

This audiobook narrated by Jemma Wadham gives a passionate eyewitness account of the mysteries and looming demise of glaciers—and what their fate means for our shared future

This audiobook narrated by Mike Wells traces the history of how the Sahara was transformed from a green and fertile land into the largest hot desert in the world

An argument for why Plato’s Laws can be considered his most important political dialogue

How rhetorical training influenced deeds as well as words in the Roman Empire

The first comprehensive study of Pliny the Elder’s economic thought—and its implications for understanding the Roman Empire’s constrained innovation and economic growth

A cultural and literary history of mountains in classical antiquity

A groundbreaking reinterpretation that draws on cognitive theory to show that belief wasn’t absent from—but rather was at the heart of—Roman religion

A new way of thinking about the climate crisis as an exercise in delimiting knowable, and habitable, worlds

An up-close account of how Nigerians’ self-reliance in the absence of reliable government services enables official dysfunction to strengthen state power

A powerful photographic survey of the impact of irrigation systems on the landscape of the United States

An exploration of the personal and artistic connections between two icons of twentieth-century art

A new look at the interrelationship of architecture and sculpture during one of the richest periods of American modern design

A groundbreaking examination of the “double” in modern and contemporary art

How the urban spectator became the archetypal modern viewer and a central subject in late nineteenth-century French art

A groundbreaking work of scholarship that sheds critical new light on the urban renewal of Paris under Napoleon III

A richly illustrated history of textiles in the Mughal Empire

A sweeping look at Chinese art across the millennia that upends traditional perspectives and offers new pathways for art history

A diverse set of contributions to the expanding field of ecocritical studies

A comprehensive overview of symbiotic relationships between insects and microbes

A comprehensive framework for understanding species coexistence

A quantitative, broad, hands-on introduction to the cutting-edge science of global warming

The definitive single-volume compendium of all things Princeton

Why higher education is not a silver bullet for eradicating economic inequality and social injustice

An honest confrontation of systemic racism in faculty hiring—and what to do about it

The unwritten rules of success that every student must follow to thrive in college

How campus communities of every kind can transform themselves from good to great

The case for race-conscious education policy

An accessible field guide to more than 500 of the most commonly found spider species in North America

The classic guide to the birds of the Dominican Republic and Haiti—now fully revised and updated

A compelling alternative account of the history of knowledge from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

How the utopian tradition offers answers to today’s environmental crises

A new investigation that shows how conversionary preaching to Jews was essential to the early modern Catholic Church and the Roman religious landscape

A new definitive volume of the retirement papers of Thomas Jefferson

How technological advances and colonial fears inspired utopian geoengineering projects during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

A meticulously researched history on the development of American mathematics in the three decades following World War I

The controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual life

A unique look at Thomas Mann’s intellectual and political transformation during the crucial years of his exile in the United States

A bilingual volume that reveals an intriguing world of courtly love and satire in medieval Portugal and Spain

A delightful collection of modern Chinese tales

A unique look at how classical notions of ascent and flight preoccupied early modern British writers and artists

The definitive biography of a pivotal figure in American literary history

The first of two volumes of the eagerly anticipated first complete edition of Auden’s poems—including some that have never been published before

The second of two volumes of the eagerly anticipated first complete edition of Auden’s poems—including some that have never been published before

Why a monumental diary by an aunt and niece who published poetry together as “Michael Field”—and who were partners and lovers for decades—is one of the great unknown works of late-Victorian and early modernist literature

A groundbreaking account of translation and identity in the Chinese literary tradition before 1850—with important ramifications for today

From the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator, a spirited book that demystifies and celebrates the art of poetry today

From the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a complete verse translation of a spirited and humorous medieval English poem

How English has become a language of the people in India—one that enables the state but also empowers protests against it

A definitive proof of global nonlinear stability of Minkowski space-time as a solution of the Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations

New mathematical research in arithmetic dynamics

The little-known history of public school teachers across the Arab world—and how they wielded an unlikely influence over the modern Middle East

An original, unified reconstruction of Mill’s moral and political philosophy—one that finally reveals its consistency and full power

A bold new interpretation of Augustine’s virtue of hope and its place in political life

Money in the history of political thought, from ancient Greece to the Great Inflation of the 1970s

From the Nobel Prize–winning physicist, a personal meditation on the quest for objective reality in natural science

A modern approach to classical electromagnetism

A concise, beginner-friendly introduction to quantum field theory

What we know about dark matter and what we have yet to discover

The essential introduction to magnetic reconnection—written by a leading pioneer of the field

How Brazil’s long history of racism and authoritarian politics has led to the country’s present crises and epidemic of violence

Leading historians provide perspective on Trump’s four turbulent years in the White House

A radical reinterpretation of Adam Smith that challenges economists, moral philosophers, political theorists, and intellectual historians to rethink him—and why he matters

As national political fights are waged at the state level, democracy itself pays the price

How and why NGOs are increasingly taking independent and direct action in global law enforcement, from human rights to the environment

An innovative framework for advancing human rights

How Social Security has shaped American politics—and why it faces insolvency

How and why cities have become the predominant sites for revolutionary upheavals in the contemporary world

How to study the past using data

A comprehensive account of the media's coverage of social movements in the United States

An updated and expanded edition of the acclaimed writing guide for scientists

How evangelical churches in the United States convert migrant distress into positive religious devotion

An exploration of early modern accounts of sickness and disability—and what they tell us about our own approach to bodily difference

A comprehensive and illuminating account of the history of credit in America—and how it continues to divide the haves from the have-nots

How new parents in low-wage jobs juggle the demands of work and childcare, and the easy ways employers can help

How tech giants are reshaping spirituality to serve their religion of peak productivity

How ordinary urban objects influence our behavior, exacerbate inequality, and encourage social change

A behind-the-scenes look at how the rich and powerful use offshore shell corporations to conceal their wealth and make themselves richer

How states deny the full potential of refugees as people and perpetuate social inequality

How social status shapes our dreams of the future and inhibits the lives we envision for ourselves

A fascinating account of the growing "Yes in My Backyard" urban movement

How privileged adolescents in China acquire status and why this helps them succeed

Bridging the social and life sciences to unlock the mystery of how cities shape mental health and illness

A practical and compact guide to writing for professionals