SPRING/SUMMER 2017 Goldsworthy James Weatherall Pincus Pax Romana Play All Void The Heart of the Declaration 978-0-300-17882-1 978-0-300-21809-1 978-0-300-20998-3 $32.50 $25.00 $26.00 978-0-300-21618-9 $26.00 Holloway Baggini Clemens Auslin A Little History The Edge of The Voynich The End of the of Religion Reason Manuscript Asian Century 978-0-300-20883-2 978-0-300-20823-8 978-0-300-21723-0 978-0-300-21222-8 $25.00 $26.00 $50.00 $30.00 Bercovici Kronman Haskell Cabanes The Origins of Confessions of a Steven Spielberg August 1914 Everything in 100 Born-Again Pagan 978-0-300-18693-2 978-0-300-20827-6 Pages (More or Less) 978-0-300-20853-5 $25.00 $27.50 978-0-300-21513-7 $50.00 $23.00 RECENT GENERAL INTEREST HIGHLIGHTS 1 General Interest General Interest 1 Why should we think in terms of networks? What do we learn from seeing things this way? The networks that surround and enmesh us, from Facebook to ISIS to the Internet itself, vary widely The Chessboard and the Web in form and function. We have learned to categorize human and state interactions into different types of Strategies of Connection in a Networked World games, but we have not learned to classify networks in ways that allow us to understand, design, use, and Anne-Marie Slaughter manage them for different purposes. In my book I describe three main types: task networks, resilience From a renowned foreign-policy expert, a new networks, and scale networks. These are not just paradigm for strategy in the twenty-first century spontaneous human interactions. They are tools we A conversation can use. with Anne-Marie In 1961, Thomas Schelling’s The Strategy of Conflict Slaughter used game theory to radically reenvision the U.S.-Soviet How can networks guide strategy? relationship and establish the basis of international rela- Over centuries, governments have come to see the tions for the rest of the Cold War. Now, Anne-Marie world as a chessboard, or perhaps a Go board, on Slaughter—one of Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global which great powers play out endless rivalries. They Thinkers from 2009 to 2012, and the first woman to craft strategies of conflict and competition. An serve as director of the State Department Office of understanding of different kinds of networks allows us Policy Planning—applies network theory to develop also to craft strategies of connection, figuring out what a new set of strategies for the post–Cold War world. or whom to connect, how to connect them, and for While chessboard-style competitive relationships still what purpose. exist—U.S.-Iranian relations, for example—many other situations demand that we look not at individual enti- ties but at their links to one another. We must learn to Is network thinking limited to governments, or can my understand, shape, and build on those connections. organization use it too? Concise and accessible, based on real-world situations, Chessboard actors are states; statecraft is the preserve on a lucid understanding of network science, and on a of the powerful and privileged few. Web actors include clear taxonomy of strategies, this will be a go-to resource individual government officials, corporations, civic for anyone looking for a new way to think about strategy leaders, and criminals; webcraft is thus a far broader in politics or business. field of endeavor. General Stanley McCrystal turned his special operations forces into a task network—a ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER is President and CEO of New team of teams—to counter ISIS with great success. America, former Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Any leader can create similar networks to accomplish Department, and former Dean of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson specific goals. School of Public and International Affairs. Her previous books include A New World Order and Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, named one of the best books of 2015 by the Washington Post, the Economist, and NPR. She lives in Princeton, NJ. March Current Events/International Affairs/ Technology Hardcover 978-0-300-21564-9 $26.00/£18.99 Also available as an eBook. 224 pp. 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄4 14 b/w illus. World 2 General Interest Why should we think in terms of networks? What do we learn from seeing things this way? The networks that surround and enmesh us, from Facebook to ISIS to the Internet itself, vary widely The Chessboard and the Web in form and function. We have learned to categorize human and state interactions into different types of Strategies of Connection in a Networked World games, but we have not learned to classify networks in ways that allow us to understand, design, use, and Anne-Marie Slaughter manage them for different purposes. In my book I describe three main types: task networks, resilience From a renowned foreign-policy expert, a new networks, and scale networks. These are not just paradigm for strategy in the twenty-first century spontaneous human interactions. They are tools we A conversation can use. with Anne-Marie In 1961, Thomas Schelling’s The Strategy of Conflict Slaughter used game theory to radically reenvision the U.S.-Soviet How can networks guide strategy? relationship and establish the basis of international rela- Over centuries, governments have come to see the tions for the rest of the Cold War. Now, Anne-Marie world as a chessboard, or perhaps a Go board, on Slaughter—one of Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global which great powers play out endless rivalries. They Thinkers from 2009 to 2012, and the first woman to craft strategies of conflict and competition. An serve as director of the State Department Office of understanding of different kinds of networks allows us Policy Planning—applies network theory to develop also to craft strategies of connection, figuring out what a new set of strategies for the post–Cold War world. or whom to connect, how to connect them, and for While chessboard-style competitive relationships still what purpose. exist—U.S.-Iranian relations, for example—many other situations demand that we look not at individual enti- ties but at their links to one another. We must learn to Is network thinking limited to governments, or can my understand, shape, and build on those connections. organization use it too? Concise and accessible, based on real-world situations, Chessboard actors are states; statecraft is the preserve on a lucid understanding of network science, and on a of the powerful and privileged few. Web actors include clear taxonomy of strategies, this will be a go-to resource individual government officials, corporations, civic for anyone looking for a new way to think about strategy leaders, and criminals; webcraft is thus a far broader in politics or business. field of endeavor. General Stanley McCrystal turned his special operations forces into a task network—a ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER is President and CEO of New team of teams—to counter ISIS with great success. America, former Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Any leader can create similar networks to accomplish Department, and former Dean of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson specific goals. School of Public and International Affairs. Her previous books include A New World Order and Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, named one of the best books of 2015 by the Washington Post, the Economist, and NPR. She lives in Princeton, NJ. March Current Events/International Affairs/ Technology Hardcover 978-0-300-21564-9 $26.00/£18.99 Also available as an eBook. 224 pp. 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄4 14 b/w illus. World General Interest 3 The Six Day War The Breaking of the Middle East Guy Laron An enthralling, big-picture history that examines the Six Day War, its causes, and its enduring consequences against its global context One fateful week in June 1967 redrew the map of the Middle East. Many scholars have documented how the Six Day War unfolded, but little has been done to explain why the conflict happened at all. As we approach its fiftieth anniversary, Guy Laron refutes the widely accepted belief that the war was merely the result of regional friction, revealing the crucial roles played by American and Soviet policies in the face of an encroaching global economic crisis, and restoring Syria’s often overlooked centrality to events leading up to the hostilities. The Six Day War effectively sowed the seeds for the downfall of Arab nationalism, the growth of Islamic extremism, and the animosity between Jews and Palestinians. In this important new work, Laron’s fresh interdisciplinary perspective and extensive archival research offer a significant reassessment of a conflict— and the trigger-happy generals behind it—that continues to shape the modern world. GUY LARON is lecturer in international relations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Maryland, Northwestern University, and Oxford. He is the author of Origins of the Suez Crisis and lives in Tel Aviv, Israel. February History/Mideast Studies Hardcover 978-0-300-22270-8 $28.00/£20.00 Also available as an eBook. 320 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 16 b/w illus. World 4 General Interest The End of Europe Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age James Kirchick The disintegration of Europe’s post–Cold War consensus in the face of anti-Semitism, populist nationalism, and territorial aggression Once the world’s bastion of liberal, democratic values, Europe is now having to confront demons it thought it had laid to rest. The old pathologies of anti-Semitism, fascism, populist nationalism, and territorial aggression are threatening to tear the European postwar consen- sus apart. In riveting dispatches from this unfolding tragedy, James Kirchick shows us the shallow disingenu- ousness of the leaders who pushed for the “Brexit” vote, talks with the mild-mannered former accountant who is the charming face of Hungary’s neofascist Jobbik party, examines how a vast migrant wave is exacerbating ten- sions between Europeans and their Muslim minorities, explores the rising anti-Semitism that causes Jewish schools and synagogues in France and Germany to resemble armed bunkers, and describes how Russian imperial ambitions are destabilizing nations from “James Kirchick is a gloomily brilliant Estonia to Ukraine. observer of European affairs—panoramic Based on extensive firsthand reporting, this book is a in his survey, precise in his details provocative, disturbing look at a continent in unex- and anecdotes, severe and persuasive pected crisis. in his judgments, always lucid, always alert.”—Paul Berman, author of The Flight of the Intellectuals JAMES KIRCHICK is a fellow at the Foreign Policy Initiative in and Power and the Idealists Washington and a correspondent for the Daily Beast. His articles have appeared in the Washington Post, the Weekly Standard, the Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Policy. He lives in Washington, DC. March Current Events/History/International Affairs Hardcover 978-0-300-21831-2 $27.50/£18.99 Also available as an eBook. 256 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 2 b/w illus. World General Interest 5 Claretta Mussolini’s Last Lover R. J. B. Bosworth A master historian illuminates the tumultuous relationship of Il Duce and his young lover Claretta, whose extraordinarily intimate diaries only recently have become available Few deaths are as gruesome and infamous as those of Benito Mussolini, Italy’s fascist dictator, and Claretta (or Clara) Petacci, his much-younger lover. Shot dead by Italian partisans after attempting to flee the country in 1945, the couple’s bodies were then hanged upside down in Milan’s main square in ignominious pub- lic display. This provocative book is the first to mine Clara’s extensive diaries, family correspondence, and other sources to discover how the last in Mussolini’s long line of lovers became his intimate and how she came to her violent fate at his side. R. J. B. Bosworth explores the social climbing of Claretta’s family, her naïve and self-interested com- mitment to fascism, her diary’s graphically detailed accounts of sexual life with Mussolini, and much more. Also by R. J. B. Bosworth: Brimful of new and arresting information, the book Whispering City Rome and Its Histories sheds intimate light not only on an ordinary-extraor- Hardcover 978-0-300-11471-3 $40.00/£25.00 dinary woman living at the heart of Italy’s totalitarian Italian Venice fascist state but also on Mussolini himself. A History Paper 978-0-300-21612-7 $30.00 sc “[Italian Venice] is a work far more R. J. B. BOSWORTH is senior research fellow in history, Jesus colorful and enjoyable than the usual College, Oxford. A renowned Italianist, he is the author of more dust-dry tomes on Venice . . . Bosworth than two dozen books on Mussolini, fascism, and Italy’s twentieth- has previously published exemplary century experience. He lives in Oxford, UK. works on Mussolini and on Rome, and this one on the real, living Venice is equally fascinating.”—Tobias Jones, Sunday Times, on Italian Venice February Biography/History Hardcover 978-0-300-21427-7 $28.00/£18.99 Also available as an eBook. 336 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 24 b/w illus. World 6 General Interest George Washington The Wonder of the Age John Rhodehamel A much-needed concise biography of America’s first president As editor of the award-winning Library of America col- lection of George Washington’s writings and a curator of the great man’s original papers, John Rhodehamel has established himself as an authority of our nation’s preeminent founding father. Rhodehamel examines George Washington as a public figure, arguing that the man—who first achieved fame in his early twen- ties—is inextricably bound to his mythic status. Solidly grounded in Washington’s papers and exemplary in its brevity, this approachable biography is a superb introduction to the leader whose name has become synonymous with America. JOHN RHODEHAMEL is the former archivist of Mount Vernon and curator of American historical manuscripts at the Huntington Library. He is editor of George Washington: Writings and The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence, 1775– 1783. He lives in Newport Beach, CA. “John Rhodehamel, who has written many books about George Washington, here conveys his deepest and most enduring view of the man. In strong, straightforward prose, he tells Washington’s extraordinary story, without bravura flourishes or exaggerations. It is a memorable reading experience.”—Thomas Fleming, author of The Great Divide: The Conflict Between Washington and Jefferson That Defined a Nation Also by John Rhodehamel: The Great Experiment George Washington and the American Republic Hardcover 978-0-300-07614-1 $50.00 tx/£38.00 February Biography Hardcover 978-0-300-21997-5 $32.50/£25.00 368 pp. 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄4 World General Interest 7 What is economics and why is it important? Economics is about how we use our resources. Why are some societies able to feed and educate their children, others not? Economics is about how people get what they need to live full, happy lives—and why some don’t. If we can understand basic economic questions, we can A Little History of Economics help more people live well. Niall Kishtainy Isn’t economics just for adults, even professionals? Why A lively, inviting account of the history of should children learn about economics? economics, told through events from ancient to People are put off by economic jargon. But if you care modern times and the ideas of great thinkers in A conversation about our biggest challenges—what to do about poverty, the field with Niall how to make sure that people can find work—then Kishtainy economics is essential. It’s children who as the voters, thinkers, and leaders of tomorrow will decide how we What causes poverty? Are economic crises inevitable deal with those challenges. under capitalism? Is government intervention in an economy a helpful approach or a disastrous idea? The answers to such basic economic questions matter to What or who do you think made the biggest difference everyone, yet the unfamiliar jargon and math of eco- to economics? nomics can seem daunting. This clear, accessible, and even humorous book is ideal for young readers new to The big event was the Industrial Revolution. It began economics and for all readers who seek a better under- in Britain and spread to the rest of Europe in the standing of the full sweep of economic history and ideas. nineteenth century. It created a new kind of life in factories and big cities, which took over from the old Economic historian Niall Kishtainy organizes short, ways of the village. Later, the British economist John chronological chapters that center on big ideas and Maynard Keynes made a huge difference to economic events. He recounts the contributions of key thinkers thinking. Before him economists thought that little including Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, John could be done about large numbers of jobless people. Maynard Keynes, and others, while examining topics His ideas changed the way that governments managed ranging from the invention of money and the rise of Also of interest: their economies. He’s still influential today. agrarianism to the Great Depression, entrepreneurship, A Little History of the World PB-with Flaps 978-0-300-14332-4 $15.00/£8.99 environmental destruction, inequality, and behavioral A Little History of Religion economics. The result is a uniquely enjoyable volume Hardcover 978-0-300-20883-2 $25.00/£14.99 that succeeds in illuminating the economic ideas and A Little History of the United States PB-with Flaps 978-0-300-22348-4 $15.00/£10.99 forces that shape our world. A Little History of Science PB-with Flaps 978-0-300-19713-6 $15.00/£9.99 A Little History of Philosophy NIALL KISHTAINY, former economic policy advisor to the UK gov- PB-with Flaps 978-0-300-18779-3 $16.00/£9.99 ernment and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, A Little History of Literature is guest teacher, department of economic history, London School of PB-with Flaps 978-0-300-20531-2 $15.00/£9.99 Economics, and author of The Economics Book and Economics in A Little Book of Language Minutes. He lives in London, UK. PB-with Flaps 978-0-300-17082-5 $17.00/£9.99 March Economics/History Hardcover 978-0-300-20636-4 $25.00/£14.99 Also available as an eBook. 288 pp. 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄2 40 b/w illus. World 8 General Interest