Spring 2023 International

A bold and revolutionary perspective on the science and cultural history of menstruation

A philosopher’s personal meditation on how painful emotions can reveal truths about what it means to be truly human

An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union

From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein’s Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilism

An entrancing new telling of ancient Greek myths

“This book is a triumph! . . . [A] magnificent retelling of the Greek myths.”—Alexander McCall Smith, author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series

The visionary science behind the digital human twins that will enhance our health and our future

A powerful collection of quotations from iconic artist and activist Yoko Ono

A compelling collection of quotations from musician, activist, and artist John Lennon

An essential, inspiring collection of quotations about creativity, social justice, and more from musician, producer, artist, and designer Pharrell Williams

A major new biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveler, humanitarian, and codiscoverer of natural selection

An authoritative two-volume overview of the distribution of the wild plants of Great Britain and Ireland

A highly illustrated and portable identification guide to the most common wild flowers and other plants

A richly illustrated guide to edible mushrooms by one of Europe’s leading fungi experts

A personal account of—and guide to—unlocking the wildlife potential of gardens and other plots of land in lowland Britain

A spectacularly illustrated journey into the intimate communities that native trees share with animals, insects, fungi, and microbes

A concise and accessible introduction to exoplanets that explains the cutting-edge science behind recent discoveries

The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern world

A critical history of the social media influencer’s rise to global prominence

Why leaders, not citizens, are the driving force in Europe’s crisis of democracy

How Chile became home to the world’s most radical free-market experiment—and what its downfall suggests about the fate of neoliberalism around the globe

Aristotle’s essential guide to human flourishing—the Nicomachean Ethics—in a lively new abridged translation

How ancient Stoicism can help teach us to treat others—and ourselves—more fairly and mercifully

A beautifully written personal account of the discovery of late antiquity by one of the world’s most influential and distinguished historians

What Thoreau can teach us about working—why we do it, what it does to us, and how we can make it more meaningful

Why human nature is an aesthetic phenomenon—and why we need art and philosophy to understand ourselves

Provocative essays on real-world ethical questions from the world's most influential philosopher

An intimate account of the eighteenth-century Bank of England that shows how a private institution became “a great engine of state”

A panoramic narrative that places ancient Africa on the stage of world history

An examination of revolutions in the Iberian and Italian peninsulas, Sicily and Greece in the 1820s that reveals a popular constitutional culture in the South

A richly illustrated exploration of Mina Loy’s art and writings

A natural history of cheating from selfish genes to lying politicians

A new biography of Carl Linnaeus, offering a vivid portrait of Linnaeus’s life and work

How playwrights from Alfred Jarry and Samuel Beckett to Tom Stoppard and Simon McBurney brought the power of abstract mathematics to the human stage

An invigorating exploration of the pleasures and social benefits of conversation

A marvelously illustrated look at the most deadly predators on the planet

An impassioned case for the importance of ancient forests and their preservation

A gorgeously illustrated guide to the incredible diversity of snakes around the world

A beautifully illustrated introduction to the incredible variety of bees from around the world

A lavishly illustrated guide to the seaweed families of the world

A beautifully illustrated introduction to the lives of butterflies around the world

A deep history of storytelling as a civic agency, recalibrating literature’s political role for the twenty-first century

A groundbreaking account of the origin and place of meaning in the earthly biosphere

Why the tools of philosophy offer a powerful antidote to today’s epidemic of irrationality

A sweeping germ’s-eye view of history from human origins to global pandemics

The first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and, later, confinement in a mental asylum

How a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking democracy

From a Nobel Prize–winning pioneer in environmental economics, an innovative account of how and why “green thinking” could cure many of the world’s most serious problems—from global warming to pandemics

How economics needs to change to keep pace with the twenty-first century and the digital economy

A renowned economic historian 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

How the greatest thinkers in finance changed the field and how their wisdom can help investors today

A riveting account of espionage for the digital age, from one of America’s leading intelligence experts

A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intolerance

How climate influenced the design strategies of modernist architects

A captivating historical look at the cultural and artistic significance of shells in early modern Europe

An evocative chronicle of the power of solitude in the natural world

The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. Those hills were, much later, also home to the Sioux, the Crows, and the Blackfeet, the first people to...

The fascinating story of how the fossils of dinosaurs, mammoths, and other extinct animals influenced some of the most spectacular creatures of classical mythology

An outstanding anthology in which notable musicians, artists, scientists, thinkers, poets, and more—from Gustavo Dudamel and Carrie Mae Weems to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Paul Muldoon—explore the influence of music on their lives and work

Contributors include: Laurie...

A history of the extraordinary society that has touched all aspects of British life

A reexamination of Austen’s unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novels—and that challenges distinctions between her “early” and “late” work

Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern Library

Anne Carson’s remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic love

From twenty-seven of today’s leading writers, an anthology of original pieces on the author of Walden

Features essays by Jennifer Finney Boylan • Kristen Case • George Howe Colt • Gerald Early • Paul Elie • Will Eno • Adam Gopnik • Lauren Groff • Celeste...

A Dominican-born academic tells the story of how the Great Books transformed his life—and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgrounds

The marvelous microbes that made life on Earth possible and support our very existence

An entertaining and enlightening history of irrational numbers, from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century

An engrossing look at the history and importance of a centuries-old but still unanswered math problem

A fresh look at electricity and its powerful role in life on Earth

The strengths and failures of the American college, and why liberal education still matters

How policies forged after September 11 were weaponized under Trump and turned on American democracy itself

“Worth a read for anyone who cares about making change happen.”—Barack Obama

A powerful new blueprint for how governments and nonprofits can harness the power of digital technology to help solve the most serious problems of the twenty-first century

How the Chinese Communist Party maintains its power by both repressing and responding to its people

From the acclaimed author of Unfinished Business, a story of crisis and change that can help us find renewed honesty and purpose in our personal and political lives

A timely defense of liberalism that draws vital lessons from its greatest midcentury proponents

How populism is fueled by the demise of the industrial order and the emergence of a new digital society ruled by algorithms

From two of the world’s leading authorities on dogs, an imaginative journey into a future of dogs without people

How four American cities shaped Poe's life and writings

A landmark reinterpretation of why Christianity became the dominant faith of the West

Two simple yet tremendously powerful ideas that shaped virtually every aspect of civilization

A bold reevaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive vision of religion for the modern age

An acclaimed history of Harlem’s journey from urban crisis to urban renaissance

A history of US involvement in late twentieth-century campaigns against global poverty and how they came to focus on women

An indispensable investigation into the American unemployment system and the ways gender and class affect the lives of those looking for work

A history of the battles over US immigrants’ rights since 1965—and how these conflicts reshaped access to education, employment, civil liberties, and more

How the NRA became a political juggernaut by influencing the behaviors and beliefs of everyday Americans

The forgotten story of the nineteenth-century freethinkers and twentieth-century humanists who tried to build their own secular religion

An expansive look at how culture shapes our emotions—and how we can benefit, as individuals and a society, from less anger and more shame

Why equality cannot be conditional on a shared human “nature” but has to be for all

How religious ritual united a growing and diversifying Roman Republic

The untold story of the founding father’s likely Jewish birth and upbringing—and its revolutionary consequences for understanding him and the nation he fought to create

An incisive history of the controversial Google Books project and the ongoing quest for a universal digital library

A revolutionary concept-based approach to thinking about, designing, and interacting with software

An essential history of the modern research university

A rare, behind-the-scenes look at Russian military politics

The definitive biography of a leading twentieth-century French writer

A comprehensive, up-to-date textbook on nonparametric methods for students and researchers

An incisive economic and political history of the Panama Canal

How the Catholic Church redefined its relationship to the state in the wake of the French Revolution

Why investment and financial reform are essential to China's continued economic well-being

A comprehensive, self-contained primer on validated numerics

An authoritative graduate textbook on information choice, an exciting frontier of research in economics and finance

The first authoritative collection of drawings by legendary modern architect Lina Bo Bardi

A richly illustrated look at how travel influenced the work of renowned contemporary artist Betye Saar

A new retrospective of the work of trailblazing artist Barbara Chase-Riboud

A new examination of the history of ceramic art, spanning ancient to modern times, emphasizing its traditions, materials, and methods of making

A revisionist reading of modern art that examines how artworks are captured as property to legitimize power

A revealing look at U.S. imperialism through the lens of visual culture and portraiture

A revealing and beautifully illustrated critical edition of Gardner’s collaged travel albums

A rich exploration of American artworks that reframes them within current debates on race, gender, the environment, and more

A literary and cultural history of coral—as an essential element of the marine ecosystem, a personal ornament, a global commodity, and a powerful political metaphor

Revisiting an almost-forgotten American interracial literary culture that advanced racial pluralism in the decades before the 1960s

How Black poets have charted the direction of American poetics for the past two centuries

A vivid historical imagining of life in the early United States

“One of the richest books ever to come my way.”—Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Shipping News

A leading trans scholar and activist explores cultural representations of gender transition in the modern period

Fascinating profiles of modern writers and artists who tapped the political potential of fairy tales

Award-winning new translations of a major contemporary Italian poet

A collection of new and startlingly original essays from an acclaimed poet, essayist, and playwright

An examination of coined money and its significance to rulers, aristocrats and peasants in early medieval Europe

A new history of Christian-Muslim relations in the Carolingian period that provides a fresh account of events by drawing on Arabic as well as western sources

An original account, drawing on both history and social science, of the causes and consequences of the American Revolution

A major new history of the genocide of Roma and Jews during World War II and their entangled quest for historical justice

How the medieval church drove state formation in Europe

An intellectual history of sovereignty that reveals how the Habsburg Empire became a crucible for our contemporary world order

A definitive new volume of the retirement papers of Thomas Jefferson

A bold reconception of ancient Greek drama by one of the most brilliant and original classical scholars of his generation

A provocative account of Jewish encounters with the public baths of ancient Rome

The second volume in a landmark commentary on an important and influential work of ancient philosophy

A new reading of Plato’s political thought

A panoramic cultural and legal history that traces the roots of antisemitism and racism to early Christian theology

An essential single-volume companion to the critical interpretation of Islamic scripture

A groundbreaking reinterpretation of early Judaism, during the millennium before the study of the Bible took center stage

Why we should take Bernard Mandeville seriously as a philosopher

A sweeping history of libertarian thought, from radical anarchists to conservative defenders of the status quo

A major new account of the state and its importance by a leading political philosopher

Tracing the origins of modern political thought through three sets of arguments over history, morality, and freedom

How Donald Trump laid waste to American politics, culture, and social order

The case for an eco-emancipatory politics to release the Earth from human domination and free us all from lives that are both exploitative and exploited

How to put democracy at the heart of AI governance

The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of America as a white Christian nation

How institutions shape the American presidency

An essential history of Wahhābism from its founding to the Islamic State

Muslim intellectuals who sought to establish the boundaries of modern Muslim identity

An exploration of the ways that shifting relations between materiality and language bring about different forms of politics in Tehran

The unknown history of economic conservatism in India after independence

An inside view of Chinese academia and what it reveals about China’s political system

A new history of French social thought that connects postwar sociology to colonialism and empire

An eye-opening portrait of the gun sellers who navigated the social turmoil leading up to the January 6 Capitol attack

How everyday forms of surveillance threaten undocumented immigrants—but also offer them hope for societal inclusion

How the misuses of Martin Luther King’s legacy divide us and undermine democracy

How social scientists' disagreements about their key words and distinctions have been misconceived, and what to do about it

An illuminating look at the transformative role that rituals play in our political lives

A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial era

Why hope matters as a metric of economic and social well-being

How financial crises are inherent features of macroeconomic dynamics

An authoritative and comprehensive graduate textbook on the modern insurance sector

An incisive overview of the macroeconomics of financial crises—essential reading for students and policy experts alike

Why most Americans’ finances improved during the worst economic contraction since the Great Depression—and the policy choices that made this possible

A richly illustrated, portable field guide to flycatcher identification

The definitive field guide to all the sharks, rays and chimaeras of eastern North America

A strikingly illustrated photographic identification guide to sea slugs in all their colourful variety

A beautifully illustrated photographic identification guide to the common marine fish found around Britain and Ireland—ideal for divers, snorkellers, and natural history enthusiasts

A new, improved and updated edition of the bestselling photographic guide

A definitive and richly illustrated guide to the botanically unique area of Upper Teesdale in England’s County Durham

A state-of-the-art illustrated field guide to the birds of Costa Rica

A state-of-the-art illustrated field guide to the birds of Belize

The ultimate photographic field guide to North American insects

A portable, full-color photographic guide to the most commonly seen bees in the western United States and Canada

A richly illustrated natural history of ants, covering their diversity, ecology, anatomy, behavior, and more

Songs, barks, roars, hoots, squeals, and growls: exploring the mysteries of how animals communicate by sound

The extraordinary life story of the celebrated naturalist who transformed our understanding of evolution

The most comprehensive and up-to-date general reference book on honey bee biology

An authoritative, accessible, and gorgeously illustrated exploration into the lives of these remarkable animals

An up-to-date reference book on phylogenetic methods and applications for evolutionary biologists

A major new theory of why human intelligence has not evolved in other species

An introductory text on the analysis, control, and estimation of nonlinear systems, appropriate for advanced undergraduate and graduate students

An introduction to celestial mechanics for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers new to the field

A pioneering new nonlinear approach to a fundamental question in algebraic geometry

This audiobook narrated by acclaimed ornithologist Tim Birkhead traces the history of the long and close relationship between birds and humans

This audiobook narrated by Tom Lawrence describes the revolution in science that is transforming our understanding of dinosaurs

This audiobook narrated by Kristin Atherton provides a fascinating portrait of a radical age through the writers associated with a London publisher and bookseller—from William Wordsworth and Mary Wollstonecraft to Benjamin Franklin

This audiobook narrated by Jennifer Woodward explains why acknowledging diverse eco-social relationships can help us overcome the political polarization that undermines our ability to protect the environment

This audiobook narrated by Katherine Fenton explores how the politicization of the pandemic endangers our lives—and our democracy

This audiobook narrated by Ruha Benjamin offers an inspiring and uniquely personal vision of how we can build a more just world one small change at a time

Features a bonus Q&A with Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist

This audiobook narrated by Suzanne Toren takes you on an amazing journey into the hidden realm of nature’s sounds

This audiobook narrated by Nancy Crane reveals what all of us can do to fight the pervasive human tendency to enable wrongdoing in the workplace, politics, and beyond

This audiobook narrated by J. D. Jackson offers an incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonment

Leading technologists, historians, and journalists reveal the stories behind the computer coding that touches all aspects of life—for better or worse

This audiobook narrated by Kelly Burke offers a short guide to living well by understanding better what you really value—and what to do when your goals conflict

A classic book now available on audio
With narration by Kate Harper, who recounts the scandal of the dispossession of native land by American settlers