Belknap Press
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The Making of the Bible: From the First Fragments to Sacred Scripture
$21.95 Add to cart“A landmark…If you have time to read only one book on the Bible this year, make sure that it is this one.”–Katherine J. Dell, Church Times
“Excellent…With a sure touch, the authors lead the reade- Author: Schmid, Konrad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0674293924
- Language: English
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Democracy’s Discontent: A New Edition for Our Perilous Times
$24.95 Add to cartA renowned political philosopher updates his classic book on the American political tradition to address the perils democracy confronts today.
The 1990s were a heady time. The Cold War had ended, and- Author: Sandel, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 28, 2022
- ISBN10: 0674270711
- Language: English
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The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition
$30.00 Add to cartEmily Dickinson, poet of the interior life, imagined words/swords, hurling barbed syllables/piercing. Nothing about her adult appearance or habitation revealed such a militant soul. Only poems, writte
- Author: Dickinson, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 696
- Publish Date: October 01, 2005
- ISBN10: 0674018249
- Language: English
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Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500
$39.95 Add to cartFrom the author of the acclaimed The Thirty Years War and Heart of Europe, a masterful, landmark reappraisal of German military history, and of the preconceptions about German militarism since before
- Author: Wilson, Peter H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: 14-Feb-23
- ISBN10: 0674987624
- Language: English
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The Four Realms of Existence: A New Theory of Being Human
$29.95 Read moreOne of the world’s leading experts on mind and brain takes us on an expedition that reveals a new view of what makes us who we are.
Humans have long thought of their bodies and minds as separate spher- Author: LeDoux, Joseph E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0674261259
- Language: English
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The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment Over 2,000 Years
$35.00 Add to cart“[A] tour de force of global history…Bosma has turned the humble sugar crystal into a mighty prism for understanding aspects of global history and the world in which we live.”–Los Angeles Review of
- Author: Bosma, Ulbe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0674279395
- Language: English
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The Age of Scientific Wellness: Why the Future of Medicine Is Personalized, Predictive, Data-Rich, and in Your Hands
$29.95 Read more“If you want to understand how the latest advances in genomics and AI can completely transform your health, and to translate this promise into practical tools that you can apply today, read this book!
- Author: Hood, Leroy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0674245946
- Language: English
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The Voyage of Sorcerer II: The Expedition That Unlocked the Secrets of the Ocean’s Microbiome
$27.95 Read more“Will undoubtedly shape our understanding of the global ecosystem for decades to come.”
A celebrated genome scientist sails around the worl
–Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies- Author: Venter, J. Craig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0674246470
- Language: English
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The Joy of Consent: A Philosophy of Good Sex
$27.95 Add to cart“From the bedroom to the classroom to the courtroom, ‘consent’ is a key term in our contemporary sexual ethics. In this timely reexamination, Manon Garcia deftly reveals the hidden complexities of con
- Author: Garcia, Manon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0674279131
- Language: English
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The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray
$19.95 Add to cartMore than 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in a pa
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0674066316
- Language: English
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Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
$19.95 Read more2023 PROSE Award in European History
“An invaluable historical example of the creation of a scientific conception of race that is unlikely to disappear anytime soon.”
—Washington Post “Reveals how pre- Author: Gates, Henry Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0674295455
- Language: English
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France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain
$35.00 Add to cartA Telegraph, Spectator, Prospect, and Times Best Book of the Year
“Enthralling.”―Geoffrey Wheatcroft, New York Review of Books “This is a story not just about P?tain but about war and resistance- Author: Jackson, Julian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0674248899
- Language: English
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The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
$19.95 Add to cart“Exposes the vast gap between the actual science underlying AI and the dramatic claims being made for it.”
“If you want to know about AI, read this book…It shows how a supposedly futuri
–John Horgan- Author: Larson, Erik J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0674278666
- Language: English
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The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition
$23.00 Add to cart“Leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War.”
“Provides leadership lessons that can be obtained now
–Ron Chernow, author of Grant- Author: Grant, Ulysses S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: May 06 2019
- ISBN10: 0674237854
- Language: English
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A Secular Age
$26.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year
A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
A Tablet Best Book of the Year
Winner- Author: Taylor, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: September 17, 2018
- ISBN10: 0674986911
- Language: English
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Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge
$19.00 Add to cartA Wolfson History Prize Finalist
“Timely and authoritative…I enjoyed it immensely.”
A New Statesman Book of the Year
A Sunday Times Book of the Year
–Philip Pullman “If you care about books, and if yo- Author: Ovenden, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0674271106
- Language: English
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Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter
$37.95 Add to cartA noted literary scholar traverses the Russian canon, exploring how realists, idealists, and revolutionaries debated good and evil, moral responsibility, and freedom.
Since the age of Tolstoy, Dostoev- Author: Morson, Gary Saul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 0674971809
- Language: English
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The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
$21.00 Add to cart“Read this book. It explains so much about the moment…Beautiful, heartbreaking work.”
“A deep accounting of how America got to a point where a median white family has 13 times mor
–Ta-Nehisi Coates- Author: Baradaran, Mehrsa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 11, 2019
- ISBN10: 0674237471
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Equality
$27.95 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
“An opportunity for readers to see Piketty bring his larger argument about the origins of inequality and his program fo
A Public Books Best Book of the Year- Author: Piketty, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0674273559
- Language: English
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Our Oldest Companions: The Story of the First Dogs
$18.95 Read more“A lively tale of dog domestication and migration.”–Nature
“When, where, and how did the partnership between dogs and humans begin? Was it an accident? Was it inevitable?…A tour de force drawing to- Author: Shipman, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0674293940
- Language: English
