Politics
Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments
Hardback
A leading expert’s exploration of the past, present and future of public monuments in America
To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner
Hardback
The extraordinary life of Priscilla Joyner and her quest—along with other formerly enslaved people—to find the meaning of freedom after the Civil War
Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
Hardback
Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history.
If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
Paperback
From the best-selling author of These Truths, an “exhilarating” (New York Times Book Review) account of the Cold War origins of our data-mad era.
Counting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters
Paperback
The best-selling author of Policy Paradox, a classic on politics, delivers a path-breaking work on the simple act of counting.