A thought-provoking, authoritative biography of one of history’s most maligned rulers
A celebrated biologist’s manifesto addressing a soil loss crisis accelerated by poor conservation practices and climate change
A highly original and compelling account of individual Jews who resisted Nazi persecution, challenging the traditional portrayal of Jewish passivity during the Holocaust
The story of a remarkable era of reform, controversy, optimism, and Cold War confrontation in the Soviet Union
A global account of pirates and their modus operandi, from the Middle Ages to the present day
A copiously illustrated global history of magic books, from ancient papyri to pulp paperbacks
A compelling new history of the EU and the people who sought to shape and challenge it—from Maastricht to today
A case for why regionalization, not globalization, has been the biggest economic trend of the past forty years
A dramatic and timely account of Stalin’s failed invasion of Finland in 1939, and the decade of wars and fraught relations that followed
A detailed study of the role and legacy of weaving at the legendary Black Mountain College
A searing testament to poetry’s power to define and defy injustice, from iconic writer-activist Serhiy Zhadan
A balanced biography of Golda Meir, who was both adored and abhorred, from award-winning author Deborah E. Lipstadt