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"Ricks knocks it out of the park with this jewel of a book. On every page I learned something new. Read it every night if you want to restore your faith in our country." -- James Mattis, General, U.S...

A Washington Post Noteworthy Book “[A] richly textured history . . . This story holds numerous lessons for our era.” —The New Yorker“From Joyce Chaplin’s engaging, wide-ranging pages a fresh Franklin...

From authors of the national bestseller One Nation After Trump, a revelatory investigation of the surging political division and antagonism in America todayHyperpartisanship has gridlocked the...

" It is easy to think of evolution as something that happened long ago, or that occurs only in "nature," or that is so slow that its ongoing impact is virtually nonexistent when viewed from the...

Questo volume si inserisce nel panorama di un vivace, recente interesse per l'opera di Alessandro di Afrodisia, autore assai significativo nella storia del pensiero filosofico, e tuttavia...

William Shawn once called The Talk of the Town the soul of the magazine. The section began in the first issue, in 1925. But it wasn't until a couple of years later, when E. B. White and James Thurber...

“FDR’s centurions were my heroes and guides. Now Joe Persico has written the best account of those leaders I've ever read.”—Colin L. PowellAll American presidents are commanders in chief by law. Few...

A new edition of a celebrated contemporary work on race and racismPraised by a wide variety of people from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Zadie Smith, Racecraft “ought to be positioned,” as Bookforum put it,...

Oggi abbiamo quasi dimenticato il significato originario di espressioni come "capire l'antifona", "in camera caritatis", "refugium peccatorum", "avvocato del diavolo", "bacucco" o "repulisti". In...

On June 11, 1963, in a dramatic gesture that caught the nation's attention, Governor George Wallace physically blocked the entrance to Foster Auditorium on the University of Alabama's campus. His...

In the decades that followed Reconstruction, the Supreme Court struck down civil rights legislation, validated Jim Crow laws, and stopped the government from regulating big business in almost any...

"More than three million high-school students take five million Advanced Placement exams each May, yet remarkably little is known about how this sixty-year-old, privately-run program, has become one...

Here a leading researcher provides a comprehensive treatment of the design of automatic control logic for spacecraft and aircraft. In this book Arthur Bryson describes the linear-quadratic-regulator...

Conventional wisdom holds that Christians, as members of a “universal” religion, all believe more or less the same things when it comes to their faith. Yet black and white Christians differ in...

Destino e compito, finalmente presentato con un'attenta traduzione al pubblico italiano da Elena Sciarra, fu scritto da Thomas Mann durante il suo esilio americano, e più precisamente nell'estate del...

"Finding Equilibrium explores the post-World War II transformation of economics by constructing a history of the proof of its central dogma--that a competitive market economy may possess a set of...

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Over the course of five decades, the seventeenth-century naturalist Georgius Everhardus Rumphius assiduously gathered information on the native plants of Ambon Island and its archipelago. By...

Explore global warming with graphics, illustrations, and charts that separate climate change fact from fiction, presenting the truth about global warming in a way that's both accurate and easy to...