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The Atheist's Guide to Reality - In a nutshell

Most people think of atheism as one big negative. But there is much more to atheism than knockdown arguments that there is no God.There is the whole rest of the...

Alex Rosenberg

Cultivating Conscience - A close-up

On a warm summer evening in Los Angeles, Franco Gonzales, an undocumented immigrant working as a dishwasher in a Chinese restaurant, was waiting alone at a bus stop. An armored...

Lynn Stout

Animal Ethics in Context - In a nutshell

Animals inhabit diverse environments: our homes, our settlements, agricultural land, the wild. Some animals never directly encounter human beings. Others are deliberately created by us. Do these different contexts and...

Clare Palmer

Entropy - A close-up

The story of Sadi Carnot is captivating - the young military engineer with no hope of advancement on account of a notorious father, who established wonderfully general results by pure thought. A genius who died before anyone understood his work. Almost as remarkable is that of brewer James Joule whose hobby...

James Jeffrey Binney

Living through the End of Nature - A close-up

I would want a casual reader to focus on the last chapter, “Being an Environmentalist: Decisive Uncertainty and the Future of American Environmentalism.”Here I explain that, without nature, environmentalism becomes...

Paul Wapner

Innocent Until Interrogated - The wide angle

The book looks at how people form the different political worlds in which they live. Perhaps we agree, in a broad sense, on what it means to be an “American.”...

Gary Stuart

Treason on the Airwaves - The wide angle

As a child after the Second World War, I had often heard the grown ups talking about “Tokyo Rose,” the husky-voiced Japanese siren who supposedly taunted our soldiers in the...

Judith Keene

Sorry States - A close-up

Writing Sorry States surprised me in many ways. My first surprise came when I noticed a striking pattern in Japanese apologies and other gestures of “contrition.” One leader’s attempt to...

Jennifer Lind

The Real Real Thing - A close-up

Since The Real Real Thing covers a lot of ground, readers casually dipping into it might form very different ideas about what sort of book it is. If they happened...

Wendy Steiner

Control and Freedom - In a nutshell

The Internet is a technology based on control systems, yet it is also a mass medium celebrated as fostering personal and political freedom. How? Why? What dreams and desires drove...

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

More Beautiful and More Terrible - In a nutshell

This book is about a conflict between American ideals and our social reality. Although we embrace the ideal of racial equality, in myriad studies in numerous fields there is abundant...

Imani Perry

The Frankfurt School in Exile - In a nutshell

My book aims to challenge what I consider to be some pervasive views about the Frankfurt School during its period of exile in the United States and to re-evaluate the...

Thomas Wheatland

Conservatism and Racism and Why in America They Are the Same - In a nutshell

In this book I systematically demonstrate the inescapable racism inherent in American conservatism. The argument unfolds in layers.First, I show that ideological conservatism is everywhere and always the conscious and...

Robert C. Smith

Equipping James Bond - In a nutshell

This is a book about the equipment that James Bond uses: its origins, function, and the essential role it plays in Bond’s missions. The book also describes the role these...

André Millard

The Speed Handbook - In a nutshell

The Speed Handbook is first and foremost devoted to exploring the thrill you feel when you experience intense new speeds.Of what, exactly does the thrill of speed consist? Can speed’s...

Enda Duffy

Organizing Organic - A close-up

A unique and compelling feature of my book is its use of interviews and archival documents to explore how people understand organic foods and farming in very different ways. The...

Michael A. Haedicke

The Birthright Lottery - A close-up

By treating the automatic and perpetual transmission of citizenship by birth as a weak moral link, resembling the property regimes of old that are now deeply discredited and banned, The...

Ayelet Shachar

Fabricating an Educational Miracle - The wide angle

At the end of the American Civil War, tens of thousands of pioneer families took Horace Greeley’s advice to “go West.” Streaming across the Mississippi, they settled in Iowa and...

Jinting Wu

How the World Became a Book in Shakespeare's England - A close-up

I hope readers look first at the table of contents, to see the whole range of topics covered in the book: from printing language to book-related insults, and from scientific...

Jonathan P. Lamb

Cars for Comrades - The wide angle

No contextual landscape for the book existed in the sense of a previous body of historical scholarship devoted to the subject. The Soviet automobile did figure in Cold War-era economists’...

Lewis H. Siegelbaum

Reading Orientalism - The wide angle

The book is highly relevant to contemporary life, in which forms of surveillance have become ubiquitous, although they differ from the ones I describe. It encourages readers to ask how...

Daniel Martin Varisco

Saving the Security State - In a nutshell

Empires wax and wane, and what we are seeing today is the slow and gradual waning of U.S. empire in the new century. I call this phase of U.S. empire...

Inderpal Grewal

To Serve God and Wal-Mart - In a nutshell

For more than a generation, the conservative counterrevolution in America blurred the distinction between the invisible hand of the market and the all-powerful hand of God. In the “culture wars”...

Bethany Moreton

Break On Through - In a nutshell

A half century ago a “radical caucus” formed in the American Psychiatric Association. The group, while somewhat small, felt that mental medicine needed to change in the US. The caucus...

Lucas Richert

How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls - A close-up

The cover of the book is a water strider—an insect that stands on water as if it were land. As the animal rows, it generates waves on the water surface,...

David L. Hu

The Will of the People - In a nutshell

Most people who think about it, no doubt, consider the US Supreme Court to be the protector of minority and constitutional rights against majority oppression.But is that right?In The Will...

Barry Friedman

Terms of Exchange - The wide angle

Beyond its specific contributions to the historical field, this book responds to two major challenges of our present moment: 1) to recognize the contributions of Latin America and the “Global...

Ian Merkel

England’s Israel and the Foundations of Modern Political Thought‍ - The wide angle

We tend to think of modernity as a time when religion could be set aside without this having a major effect on public discourse. But this understanding of modernity is...

Meirav Jones

Market Maoists - A close-up

I would want a browser to start with page 12, the first page of chapter 1, which tells the story of how the CCP built its first international trade network....

Jason M. Kelly

Helen of Troy - The wide angle

This book took me many years to write—longer than the Trojan War itself took. At Oxford University, where I teach, students study every period of English Literature from 800 CE...

Laurie Maguire

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