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The Way They Live Now

John Lanchester’s ‘Capital’

Capital

by John Lanchester


It’s For Your Own Good!

When can government overrule an individual’s judgment?

Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism

by Sarah Conly


The Russian Nobility Under the Red Terror

Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy

by Douglas Smith


Too Little, Too Late: Why?

After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead

by Alan S. Blinder

Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself

by Sheila Bair

Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street

by Neil Barofsky


In a Trance of Dread

The Round House

by Louise Erdrich


Terrorist or Martyr?

The Tribunal: Responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid

edited by John Stauffer and Zoe Trodd


Can They Patent Your Genes?

A Supreme Court case with huge consequences for American biomedicine

They Shined Together

Now All Roads Lead to France: A Life of Edward Thomas

by Matthew Hollis


An Astonishing Record of a Vast Collection

The Robert Lehman Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art/Princeton University Press;

I. Italian Painting

by John Pope-Hennessy, assisted by Laurence B. Kanter

II. Fifteenth- to Eighteenth-Century Paintings

by Charles Sterling, Maryan W. Ainsworth, Charles Talbot, Martha Wolff, Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Jonathan Brown, and John Hayes

III. Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Painting

by Richard R. Brettell, Paul Hayes Tucker, and Natalie H. Lee

IV. Illuminations

by Sandra Hindman, Mirella Levi d’Ancona, Pia Palladino, and Maria Francesca Saffiotti

V. Italian Fifteenth- to Seventeenth-Century Drawings

by Anna Forlani Tempesti

VI. Italian Eighteenth-Century Drawings

by James B. Shaw and George Knox

VII. Fifteenth- to Eighteenth-Century European Drawings

by Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Mary Taverner Holmes, Fritz Koreny, Donald Posner, and Duncan Robinson

VIII. American Drawings and Watercolors

by Carol Clark

IX. Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century European Drawings

by Richard R. Brettell, Françoise Forster-Hahn, Duncan Robinson, and Janis A. Tomlinson

X. Italian Majolica

by Jörg Rasmussen

XI. Glass

by Dwight P. Lanmon and David B. Whitehouse

XII. European Sculpture and Metalwork

by Frits Scholten

XIII. Frames

by Timothy Newbery

XIV. European Textiles

by Christa C. Mayer Thurman

XV. Decorative Arts

by Wolfram Koeppe, Clare Le Corbeiller, William Rieder, Charles Truman, Suzanne G. Valenstein, and Clare Vincent

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Batman vs. Koolhaas

Batman: Death by Design

by Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor


In the Beautiful, Threatened North

Subhankar Banerjee’s ‘Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point’

Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point

by Subhankar Banerjee


Warrior Petraeus

All In: The Education of General David Petraeus

by Paula Broadwell, with Vernon Loeb

The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War

by Fred Kaplan

The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army

by David Cloud and Greg Jaffe

The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today

by Thomas E. Ricks

Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam

by Nick Turse

Westmoreland: The General Who Lost Vietnam

by Lewis Sorley

The American Military and the Lessons of Vietnam: A Study of Military Influence and the Use of Force in the Post-Vietnam Era

by David Howell Petraeus

The Centurions

by Jean Lartéguy, translated from the French by Xan Fielding

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