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A powerful new interpretation of Catholicism's dramatic encounter with modernity, by one of America's leading intellectualsThroughout much of the nineteenth century, both secular and Catholic leaders assumed that the Church and the modern world were locked in a battle to the death. The triumph of modernity would not only finish the Church as a consequential player in world history; it would also lead to the death of religious conviction. But today, the Catholic Church is far more vital and consequential than it was 150 years ago. Ironically, in confronting modernity, the Catholic Church rediscovered its evangelical essence. In the process, Catholicism developed intellectual tools capable of rescuing the imperiled modern project. A richly rendered, deeply learned, and powerfully argued account of two centuries of profound change in the church and the world, The Irony of Modern Catholic History reveals how Catholicism offers twenty-first century essential truths for our survival and flourishing.

An acclaimed economist reveals that school integration efforts in the 1970s and 1980s were overwhelmingly successful--and argues that we must renew our commitment to integration for the sake of all Americans

A prize-winning historian offers a major new history of the United States, placing faith and oil at the center of America's rise to global power

A natural history of the wilderness in our homes, from the microbes in our showers to the crickets in our basements

The surprisingly hopeful story of one woman's search for resiliency in a warming world

A concise new history of the United States revealing that crises - not unlike those of the present day - have determined our nation's course from the start

A preeminent scholar explores the history of the "new immigrants" who came to the United States in the late nineteenth century and describes how they became insiders by the end of World War II.

A revelatory account of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as criminals

How anyone can become a data ninja

The history of the most acrimonious presidential handoff in American history--and of the origins of twentieth-century liberalism and conservatism

From the bestselling author of The Theoretical Minimum, a DIY introduction to the math and science of quantum mechanics.

"Mr Close's magisterial work is sure to become the definitive account"-The Economist

A groundbreaking examination of our system of imprisonment, revealing the true causes of mass incarceration as well as the best path to reform

A rich brew of political intrigue that dwarfs even the most salacious political scandal today.

A wholly original way of looking at Tupac Shakur that will thrill those who already love the artist and enlighten those who want to understand him

A veteran journalist describes how the cultural upheavals of the sixties rocked the balances of political power in America - and continue to do so

The story of Andrew Jackson's improbable ascent to the White House, centered on the handlers and propagandists who made it possible

The life of John Marshall, Founding Father and America's longest-serving Chief Justice, who made the Supreme Court a force to be reckoned with in the new nation

America's leading nutritionist exposes how the food industry corrupts scientific research for profit

The bestselling book revealing why Americans are so fearful, and why we fear the wrong things-now updated for the age of Trump

"e;Dog lovers and neuroscientists should both read this important book."e; --Dr. Temple GrandinWhat is it like to be a dog? A bat? Or a dolphin? To find out, neuroscientist and bestselling author Gregory Berns and his team did something nobody had ever attempted: they trained dogs to go into an MRI scanner--completely awake--so they could figure out what they think and feel. And dogs were just the beginning. In What It's Like to Be a Dog, Berns takes us into the minds of wild animals: sea lions who can learn to dance, dolphins who can see with sound, and even the now extinct Tasmanian tiger. Berns's latest scientific breakthroughs prove definitively that animals have feelings very much like we do--a revelation that forces us to reconsider how we think about and treat animals. Written with insight, empathy, and humor, What It's Like to Be a Dog is the new manifesto for animal liberation of the twenty-first century.

The story of the unlikely friendship between the two physicists who fundamentally recast the notion of time and history.

A veteran film critic offers a lively, opinionated guide to thinking and talking about movies-from Casablanca to Chinatown, Groundhog Day to Selma

Prominent scholars and journalists ponder the question of why, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the world is more divided than ever between the rich and the poor, between those living in freedom and those under oppression.

An acclaimed British historian traces the first three generations of English colonists in America, revealing how our national identity was forged in the terrifying wilderness of a new continent.

From one of the foremost historians of the former Soviet Union, a nonfiction spy thriller about a KGB assassin whose defection to the West changed the face of Cold War espionage.

Using physics and computer science to examine why some nations prosper while others do not

An absorbing narrative history showing how FDR and his advisors pulled the levers of monetary policy to save the domestic economy and propel the United States to unprecedented prosperity and superpower status

An award-winning journalist investigates how scientists and citizens around the world are re-tooling our senses-and what their discoveries are teaching us about the nature and future of human perception

An extraordinary year in which American democracy and American slavery emerged hand in hand