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Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason
Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason

In this age of intense political conflict, we sense objective fact is growing less important. Experts are attacked as partisan, statistics and scientific findings are decried as propaganda, and public debate devolves into personal assaults. How did we get here, and what can we do about it?

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Einstein's War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I
Einstein's War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I

"Stanley is a storyteller par excellence."--The Washington Post
Kirkus Review 
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The birth of a world-changing idea in the middle of a bloodbath

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Warriors of Anatolia: A Concise History of the Hittites
Warriors of Anatolia: A Concise History of the Hittites
The Hittites in the Late Bronze Age became the mightiest military power in the Ancient Near East. Yet their empire was always vulnerable to destruction by enemy forces; their Anatolian homeland occupied a remote region, with no navigable rivers; and they were cut off from the sea. Perhaps most seriously, they suffered chronic...
Bioarchaeologists Speak Out (Bioarchaeology and Social Theory)
Bioarchaeologists Speak Out (Bioarchaeology and Social Theory)

Bioarchaeologists who study human remains in ancient, historic and contemporary settings are securely anchored within anthropology as anthropologists, yet they have not taken on the pundits the way other subdisciplines within anthropology have. Popular science authors frequently and selectively use bioarchaeological data on...

Cognitive Superiority: Information to Power
Cognitive Superiority: Information to Power

In a world of accelerating unending change, perpetual surveillance, and increasing connectivity, conflict has become ever more complex. Wars are no longer limited to the traditional military conflict domains?land, sea, air; even space and cyber space. The new battlefield will be the cognitive domain and the new conflict a larger...

Souls under Siege: Stories of War, Plague, and Confession in Fourteenth-Century Provence
Souls under Siege: Stories of War, Plague, and Confession in Fourteenth-Century Provence

In Souls under Siege, Nicole Archambeau explores how the inhabitants of southern France made sense of the ravages of successive waves of plague, the depredations of mercenary warfare, and the violence of royal succession during the fourteenth century. Many people, she finds, understood both plague and war...

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

“Part John le Carré and more parts Michael Crichton . . . spellbinding.” –The New Yorker

From The New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth, the untold story of the cyberweapons market-the most secretive, invisible, government-backed market on earth-and a
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