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How filling life with play-whether soccer or lawn mowing, counting sheep or tossing Angry Birds-forges a new path for creativity and joy in our impatient age

A bestselling historian holds our political choices up to the glare of social science to show just how illogical our voting habits are-and how we can fix them, and by extension, our democracy

"[A] ground-breaking new history of the Vatican-German Resistance.... Writing with the craft of a novelist and the conscience of a meticulous scholar, Riebling has produced a masterly account." -National Review

A dramatic portrait of the innovative Special Forces commanders and FBI agents who wage war against America's hidden enemies

"An unflinching book, meant to disturb and to spur the country into action."-Nicholas Lemann

From the chief architect of the controversial Bush tax cuts, an updated edition of one of the classic texts on the subject of tax rates and growth.

From a prominent young historian, the untold story of the rich variety of gay life in America in the 1970s

The definitive account of the 1945 Potsdam Conference: the historic summit where Truman, Stalin, and Churchill met to determine the fate of post-World War II Europe

From the celebrated biographer of Washington, Hamilton, and Madison comes an original portrait of our 16th president's life, career, and thought

The strange, disquieting, and sometimes delicious story of humanity's love affair with meat

A bold challenge to the faddish obsession with neuroscience, showing how our conceptions of free will, personal responsibility, and identity are compromised by reductive explanations of the human mind.

A globe-trotting history of the domestic pig, showing how this humble and oft-maligned beast has helped humans to survive and thrive from the Neolithic Period to the present day.

A prizewinning military historian explores a critical but overlooked cause for World War I: the staggering decrepitude of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

A psychologist explodes the myths surrounding talent, practice, genius, and intelligence

"Linked could alter the way we think about all the networks that affect our lives."-New York Times

How an ordinary mammal manipulated nature to become technologically sophisticated city-dwellers-and why our history points to an optimistic future in the face of environmental crisis

From the palaces of the Habsburg Empire to the torture chambers of Stalin's Soviet Union, the extraordinary story of a life suspended between the collapse of the imperial order and the violent emergence of modern Europe

A leading financial journalist argues that far from being the parasites they are believed to be, bankers today are actually helping to make the world a better place.

A leading psychologist argues that a capacity for fiction is what separates man from beast

An acclaimed historian unravels Brazil's deft geopolitical machinations during World War II, showing how the country became a modern nation by first manipulating, then joining, the Allied powers.

A colourful history of Dada, leading readers through the germination and dissemination of this revolutionary but little-understood artistic movement.

"A serious and acute work.... Weigel's ability to combine the spiritual insights of a believer with the dispassionate analysis of a historian makes Evangelical Catholicism valuable for Catholics and non-Catholics, of all political persuasions, who care about the Church's future."- National Review

"[An] accessible and powerfully argued book."-Washington Post

Democrats and Republicans have two very different visions of America. Which one will make us happier?

"Compelling... [Marrs] neatly capsulizes the plethora of theories offered by critics of the lone-gunman theory."-The Washington Post

A must-read that lays out a road map for how new technologies in genomics, information technology, and mobile medicine may completely change the way we treat and prevent illness.... Highly recommended', Forbes

CSI meets John Allen Paulos-ten cases of the uses and abuses of mathematics in the courtroom

"This is easily the best book on the fall of the Berlin Wall. It reads like a thriller, it's deeply researched and smoothly written."- Fareed Zakaria GPS Book of the Week

An international security expert shows how competitive organizations can get-and stay-ahead by thinking like their adversaries

"If anyone knows anything about the web, where it's been and where it's going, it's David Weinberger.... Too Big To Know is an optimistic, if not somewhat cautionary tale, of the information explosion that is just underway."-Steven Rosenbaum, Forbes