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
The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction
Hardback
A revelatory account of how Christian monks identified distraction as a fundamental challenge—and how their efforts to defeat it can inform ours, more than a millennium later
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”
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.
Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi, and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome
Paperback
“A brisk, frothy narrative . . . informative and fun.” —The Wall Street Journal