CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
X Marks the Spot: The Lost Inheritance of Mathematics
By studying math through the lens of the mathematicians, X Marks the Spot takes a unique approach to helping readers…
Visualizing Dunhuang: The Lost Archive Photographs of the Mogao and Yulin Caves
Visualizing Dunhuang is a nine-volume series which, for the first time ever, archives every piece of photographic and historical information…
From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family
From Sarah to Sydney is a biography about Sydney Taylor, author of All-of-a Kind Family book series. Taylor, a Jewish…
Recruited
Olivia Gesso learns what it means to risk it all when she finds herself working at a recruiting job at…
The Anointed: New York’s White Shoe Law Firms — How They Started, How They Grew, and How They Ran the Country
How did Wall Street law firms become the icons of institutional law that they are today? Stewart and Lambert’s book…
Empire's Eagles: The Fate of the Napoleonic Elite in America
Empire’s Eagles dives into the year 1815 to tell the gripping narrative of Napoleon Bonaparte and his highest-ranking soldiers after…
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
Michael Lewis ’82’s The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (W.W. Norton) tells the story of how three characters, a biochemist, a…
Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings
Alan Lightman ’70 probes basic questions about human life and its origins, such as the anatomy of a smile or…
How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to
Behavioral scientist Katy Milkman ’04 writes about how to make real, lasting changes to your life in How to Change…
Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime against Humanity and Nature
Scorched Earth makes the case that international law should treat environmental destruction due to warfare, known as “ecocide,” as a…
Risk on the Table: Food Production, Health, and the Environment
In Risk on the Table, Creager and Gaudillière investigate the often-uncomfortable question of how safe is the food that we…
Francis Bacon: Revelations
One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, Francis Bacon (1909-1992) reimagined the constraints on the depiction of…
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World
From the 1750s to the 20th century, Colley traces the interconnected makings of modern constitutions around the globe. While Colley’s…
Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings
In his newest novel, Lightman probes some of the most basic questions about human life and its origins, down to…
In the Kitchen of Art: Selected Essays and Criticism, 2003-20
From a memoir about his own upbringing in Florence to a deep dive into the greats of Italian art, In…
Absentees: On Variously Missing Persons
Heller-Roazen tackles the complex and often mysterious nature of what it means to be a non-person in society. Through three…
The Conscience Code: Lead with Your Values. Advance Your Career
Through 10 detailed and actionable steps, The Conscience Code, serves as a guide for how young professionals can stand up…
Titus Loses His Temper
In Titus Loses His Temper, Titus realizes that he needs to work on controlling his anger. From the help of…
