'[A] passionate, compelling, and disturbing argument that the ills of democracy in the United States today arise from the default of its elites.' —John Gray, New York Times Book Review (front-page review), The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy, Christopher Lasch, 9780393313710| wwnorton.com
“Surprising, funny and resolutely unintimidating.” —Jennifer Szalai, New York Times Book Review In the industrial age, automation came for the shoemaker and the seamstress. Today, it has come for the writer, physician, programmer, and attorney., Literary Theory for Robots, How Computers Learned to Write, Dennis Yi Tenen, 9781324105053| wwnorton.com
“[R]evelatory…Deeply researched and masterfully told.” —Brian Goldstone, New York Times Book Review The explosive account of the arson wave that hit the Bronx and other American cities in the 1970s—and its legacy today., Born in Flames, The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City, Bench Ansfield, 9781324093510| wwnorton.com
New York Times Bestseller What modern authoritarian leaders have in common (and how they can be stopped)., Strongmen, Mussolini to the Present, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, 9780393868418| wwnorton.com
New York Times bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize 'This is a book to shake up the world.' —Ann Patchett, The Shallows, What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, Nicholas Carr, 9780393357820| wwnorton.com
A “provocative, colloquial and entertaining” (Carolyne Larrington, Times Literary Supplement) exploration of medieval thinking about women’s beauty, sexuality, and behavior. “A timely corrective…Ms. Janega’s witty but merciless dissection of medieval misogyny is a welcome challenge to us to stop recycling the same old prejudices.”—Elizabeth Lowry, Wall Street Journal, The Once and Future Sex, Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society, Eleanor Janega, 9781324074465| wwnorton.com
From the acclaimed environmentalist, a call to harness the power of the sun and rewrite our scientific, economic, and political future., Here Comes the Sun, A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization, Bill McKibben, 9781324106234| wwnorton.com
A magisterial history of the centuries-long conflict between “progress” and “tradition” in the world’s largest international institution., Catholicism, A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis, John T McGreevy, 9781324066040| wwnorton.com
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