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Learn how the perception of truth has been weaponized in modern politics with this "insightful" account of propaganda in Russia and beyond during t...

February, 1940: After a decade of worldwide depression, World War II had begun in Europe and Asia. With Germany on the march, and Japan at war with...

The environment, and the movement that grew up to protect it, is under attack -- concerted and purposeful. Yet the need for solutions to pressing e...

At the heart of the story of America's wars are our "citizen soldiers" -- those hometown heroes who fought and sacrificed from Bunker Hill at Charl...

Famine may be triggered by nature but its outcome arises from politics and ideology. In Three Famines, award-winning author Thomas Keneally uncover...

Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize“Randy Shilts and Laurie Garrett told the story of the HIV/AIDS epidemic through the late 1980s and the ear...

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year In the very near future, "smart" technologies and "big data" will allow us to make large-scale and sophis...

To the Edge of the World is an adventure in travel -- full of extraordinary personalities, more than a century of explosive political, economic, an...

To the Edge of the World is an adventure in travel -- full of extraordinary personalities, more than a century of explosive political, economic, an...

"As a young man, Ward Just spent eighteen months in Vietnam as a correspondent for the Washington Post. The experience would earn him both a citati...

The Next Big Idea Club, Best Leadership Books of 2022In an era of political and cultural extremism, America’s corporate leaders have emerged as the...

A renowned academic leader identifies the ways America's great universities should evolve in the decades ahead to maintain their global preeminence...

“An absorbing and thorough examination” of the Bank for International Settlements, “one of the world’s most important yet opaque institutions” (Reu...

“An absorbing and thorough examination” of the Bank for International Settlements, “one of the world’s most important yet opaque institutions” (Reu...

In December 1998, San Antonio Express-News reporter Philip True vanished during a solo backcountry trek in western Mexico, home of the reclusive Hu...

Men's Health, Notable Nonfiction Book of 2023 Winner, Most Original Book of 2024, Non-Obvious Book Awards Most Memorable Books of 2024, Books &...

In this exuberant celebration of the world's museums, great and small, revered writers like Ann Patchett, Julian Barnes, Ali Smith, and more tell u...

A bold new history of the discovery of King Tut and the seismic impact it left on modern society.  When it was discovered in 1922, in an Egypt newl...

For more than a decade, America has been waging a new kind of war against the financial networks of rogue regimes, proliferators, terrorist groups,...

An exclusive look inside the power and politics of college fraternities in America as they struggle to survive despite growing waves of criticism a...

John W. Fountain grew up on some of the meanest streets in Chicago, where drugs, crime, decay, and broken homes consigned so many black children to...

The Tudors are England's most dramatic royal family-Henry VIII notoriously divorced his queen and broke with the church of Rome, and Elizabeth I be...

This true story of race and injustice in a small west Texas town "resembles . . . a modern day To Kill a Mockingbird -- or would, that is, if the n...

A "riveting" (Wall Street Journal) book tells the unbelievable true story of an escape tunnel under the Berlin Wall--the people who built it, the s...