Belknap Press
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The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China
$29.95 Add to cartCombining personal narratives with decades of research, a vivid account of how the gaokao–China’s high-stakes college admissions test–shapes that society and influences education debates in the Unit
- Author: Jia, Ruixue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0674295390
- Language: English
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Kant: A Revolution in Thinking
$29.95 Add to cartA foremost Kant expert takes us on a lively tour through the revolutionary ideas of the founder of modern philosophy.
Immanuel Kant is undoubtedly the most important philosopher of the modern era. His- Author: Willaschek, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0674296109
- Language: English
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Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter
$21.95 Add to cartAn Air Mail Editor’s Pick
“[A] masterly panorama of classic Russian literature and its hinterland of ideas.”–Wall Street Journal “Wise and authoritative…As the best R
A Spectator Book of the Year- Author: Morson, Gary Saul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0674299183
- Language: English
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Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean: An Environmental History of Our Place in the Solar System
$32.00 Add to cartThe untold story of how environmental change throughout the cosmos shaped five hundred years of human civilization.
Our solar system is a dynamic arena where asteroids careen off course and solar wind- Author: deGroot, Dagomar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0674986504
- Language: English
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Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500
$24.95 Add to cart“The scholarship of this book is breathtaking…No one interested in the history of Europe, and of the Germans in particular, can afford not to read this stupendous book.” –Simon Heffer, The Telegrap
- Author: Wilson, Peter H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0674299310
- Language: English
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A Summer with Pascal
$22.95 Add to cartFrom an eminent scholar, a spirited introduction to one of the great polymaths in the history of Europe.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) is best known in the English-speaking world for his contributions to- Author: Compagnon, Antoine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0674295412
- Language: English
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Selected Stories
$29.95 Read moreA Spectator Best Book of the Year
“It’s an extremely handsome, well-designed book, and you couldn’t ask for a better introduction to Kafka…If you’ve never read Kafka before or if you already love hi- Author: Kafka, Franz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0674737989
- Language: German
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Zhou Enlai: A Life
$39.95 Add to cartA Financial Times Best Book of the Year
The definitive biography of Zhou Enlai, the first premier and preeminent diplomat of the People’s Republic of China, who protected his country against the exces- Author: Chen, Jian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 840
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0674659589
- Language: English
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Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment
$37.95 Add to cartA Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year
A major new work by Charles Taylor: the long-awaited follow-up to The Language Animal, exploring the Romantic poetics central to his theory of languag- Author: Taylor, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0674296087
- Language: English
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The Learning Household: How to Help Your Child Get More Out of School
$26.95 Add to cartAn expert guide to raising creative, passionate learners, from the bestselling author of What the Best College Teachers Do.
Children are eager learners. As anyone who has taken a car trip with a toddl- Author: Bain, Ken
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0674248163
- Language: English
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The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment Over 2,000 Years
$21.95 Add to cart“An extraordinary achievement.” –David Edgerton, Literary Review
“A remarkably researched, comprehensive, and indispensable book for everyone who wishes to understand how sugar and the sugar industry- Author: Bosma, Ulbe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0674299086
- Language: English
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To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other
$26.95 Add to cartFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer (now an HBO series) comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a bold call for expansive poli
- Series: Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
- Author: Nguyen, Viet Thanh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0674298179
- Language: English
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Arithmetic
$22.00 Add to cart“Inspiring and informative…deserves to be widely read.”
“This fun book offers a philosophical take on number systems and revels in the beauty of math.”
—Wall Street Journal
—Science News Because we- Author: Lockhart, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 15 2019
- ISBN10: 067423751X
- Language: English
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Dreaming Reality: How Neuroscience and Mysticism Can Unlock the Secrets of Consciousness
$29.95 Add to cartA cutting-edge neuroscientist and a leading clinical psychologist look to religious, mystical, and mind-altering experience to challenge scientific orthodoxies concerning consciousness.
We are nothing- Author: Miskovic, Vladimir
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0674271866
- Language: English
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Hubris: The American Origins of Russia’s War Against Ukraine
$29.95 Add to cartA leading expert on US-Russian relations reveals how the United States and its European allies set the course for the war in Ukraine–and offers a sobering indictment of American foreign policy since
- Author: Haslam, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0674299078
- Language: English
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The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France
$26.95 Add to cartA pioneering social history of French writers during the Age of Revolution, from a world-renowned scholar and National Book Critics Circle Award winner.
In eighteenth-century France, writers emerged a- Author: Darnton, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0674299884
- Language: English
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What Is Free Speech?: The History of a Dangerous Idea
$29.95 Add to cart“A brilliant history of a weaponized mantra.” —The Guardian
A leading intellectual historian shows how free speech, once viewed as both hazardous and unnatural, was reinvented as an unalloyed good, w- Author: Dabhoiwala, Fara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0674987314
- Language: English
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Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security
$29.95 Add to cartThe story of how FDR and fellow New Dealers created the idea of national security, transforming the meaning of defense and vastly expanding the US government’s responsibilities.
National security may- Author: Preston, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0674737385
- Language: English
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The Mending of Broken Bones: A Modern Guide to Classical Algebra
$29.95 Add to cartA joyful and intimate celebration of the beauty and creativity of algebra from one of the foremost math educators of our time.
For many of us, algebra conjures up memories of dull classes spent wonder- Author: Lockhart, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 067429632X
- Language: English
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The Color of North: The Molecular Language of Proteins and the Future of Life
$27.95 Add to cartAn awe-inspiring journey into the world of proteins–how they shape life, and their remarkable potential to heal our bodies and our planet.
Each fall, a robin begins the long trek north from Gibraltar- Author: Rizk, Shahir S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 674292588
- Language: English
