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Daniel A Bell
The Dean of Shandong

A Financial Times Best Book of the YearAn inside view of Chinese academia and what it reveals about China's political systemOn January 1, 2017, Daniel Bell was appointed dean of the School of Political Sc…

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Daniel A. Bell
Why Ancient Chinese Political Thought Matters

An entertaining introduction to ancient Chinese thinkers-and what they can teach us about today's most pressing political questions in China and beyondChina's most original, diverse, and fascinating polit…

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Mike Owen Benediktsson
In the Midst of Things

How ordinary urban objects influence our behavior, exacerbate inequality, and encourage social changeAssumptions about human behavior lie hidden in plain sight all around us, programmed into the design an…

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Lauren Benton
They Called It Peace

A sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empiresImperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global power …

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Charlotte Beradt,
The Third Reich of Dreams

"This is the kind of book that haunts your dreams. Essential reading for anyone who has known what it is like to live within a totalitarian state--or is worried they're about to find out."--Zadi…

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Howard C Berg
Random Walks in Biology

A landmark account of the dynamics of living systems and the methods for studying themRandom Walks in Biology provides a lucid, straightforward introduction to the concepts and techniques of statistical p…

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Susanna Berger
The Deformation

A fascinating account of the use and meaning of visual and spatial distortions in seventeenth-century art and architectureDuring the Catholic Reformation, patrons, artists, architects, and viewers, especi…

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Renée Bergland
Natural Magic

A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of natureEmily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known a…

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Adam J Berinsky
Political Rumors

Why debunked political rumors persist and how to combat themPolitical rumors and misinformation pollute the political landscape. This is not a recent phenomenon; before the currently rampant and unfounded…

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Lila Corwin Berman
Who Is American?

A groundbreaking history of how modern American citizenship has worked---and not worked---for Jews in the United StatesThe history of Jews in the United States is often told as if they immigrated, gained …

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Andrew W. Bernstein
Fuji

A panoramic history of Japan's iconic mountain from the Ice Age to the presentMount Fuji is everywhere recognized as a wonder of nature and enduring symbol of Japan. Yet behind the picture-postcard image …

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Roland Betancourt
Disneyland and the Rise of Automation

A history of the engineering marvels behind one of America's most innovative and beloved entertainment experiencesWhen Disneyland opened to the public in 1955, it demystified the hidden world of factory a…

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Francisco Bethencourt
Strangers Within

A comprehensive study of the New Christian elite of Jewish origin---prominent traders, merchants, bankers and men of letters---between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuriesIn Strangers Within , Francisco…

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Ann Blair
In the Scholar's Workshop

The hidden hands behind history's great scholarly worksFor centuries, many of the world's most influential thinkers routinely relied on helpers who performed tasks such as taking dictation, correcting, in…

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John Blair
Killing the Dead

A riveting history of vampire panics across cultures and down through the millennia---and why killing the dead is better than killing the livingKilling the Dead provides the first in-depth, global account…

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Ruby Blondell
Helen of Troy in Hollywood

How a legendary woman from classical antiquity has come to embody the threat of transcendent beauty in movies and TVHelen of Troy in Hollywood examines the figure of the mythic Helen in film and televisio…

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Shane Bobrycki
The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages

The importance of collective behavior in early medieval EuropeBy the fifth and sixth centuries, the bread and circuses and triumphal processions of the Roman Empire had given way to a quieter world. And y…

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Giulio Boccaletti
The Environmental Republic

A bold new conception of the republic for a planet in crisisRepublicanism is arguably the most powerful political idea in history, an extraordinary feat of human imagination that balances individual liber…

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Elleke Boehmer
Southern Imagining

A new compass for global reading: looking at the world from the far southern latitudesA northern viewpoint is most often the default, while the south---the far southern latitudes occupied by Australia, Ne…

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Paula Bohince
A Violence

A reckoning with psychological and ecological crises from a poet whose work has been praised as "beautiful and riveting" (Los Angeles Review of Books)A poetic representation of PTSD and its evoc…

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