Cultural Studies
The Best Medicine: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future
Paperback
The fight against child mortality that transformed parenting, doctoring and the way we live
Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today
Paperback
In this “incredibly rich” (New York Times) definitive history of the Bolshoi Ballet, visionary performances onstage compete with political machinations backstage.
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
Paperback
The classic The New York Times bestseller, with a new introduction from much-lauded The Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr.
Daodejing
Hardback
A transformative new edition of Taoism’s central text that overturns its reputation for calming, gnomic wisdom, revealing instead a work of “philosophical dynamite”
Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War
Hardback
Sisters separated by war forge new identities as they are forced to choose between family, nation and their own independence