Thinking Critically in College | The Essential Handbook for Student Success by Louis E. Newman is an important and helpful guide for any college student. Professors expect students not just to absorb material, but to analyze and synthesize it, to consider multiple perspectives, to evaluate conflicting evidence, and then to apply what they’ve learned in new contexts. Newman explains how to do all this and more.
Forthcoming: July 1, 2023
The Disappeared | Remnants of a Dirty War by Sam Ferguson chronicles the genocide in Argentina and the way the country has handled its recovery. Using a recent human rights trial as his lens, Sam Ferguson addresses two central questions of our age: How is mass atrocity possible, and What should be done in its wake?
Wilderness Tales: Forty Stories Of The North American Wild edited by Diana Fuss is a compilation of short stories, all rich with details of the wilderness in North America. Fuss has gathered a dazzling collection of timeless classics and contemporary discoveries summoning up our close and imagined encounters with all things wild.
India is Broken | A People Betrayed, Independence to Today by Ashoka Mody explores the ongoing economic challenges in India. Mody proposes a path forward that is fraught with its own peril, but which nevertheless offers something resembling hope.
The Retirement Challenge | What’s Wrong with America’s System and A Sensible Way to Fix It by Martin Neil Baily and Benjamin H. Harris provides a comprehensive plan from two leading experts on how to fix America’s outdated retirement system. They explore America’s outdated retirement system and explain how improving retirement requires changes by families, employers, and policymakers alike.
The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s Battle for Democracy and What it Means for the World by Iuliia Mendel, is the author’s first-hand account of her role as Press Secretary for Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Throughout this story of Zelenskyy, Ukraine, and its extraordinary people, Iuliia Mendel reminds us of the paramount importance of truth and human values, especially in these darkest of times.
The Only Woman in the Room: Golda Meir and Her Path to Power by Pnina Lahav tells the story of the fascinating life of Golda Meir, the first and only female Prime Minister of Israel. Exploring the tensions between Meir’s personal and political identities, The Only Woman in the Room, provides a groundbreaking new account of Meir’s life while also illuminating the difficulties all women face as they try to ascend in male-dominated fields.
Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam by Raymond Ibrahim introduces the reader to eight remarkable Western defenders and their fascinating role in the battle against violent Islamic jihad that sheds much-needed light on the enduring conflict with radical Islam.
Before the Big Bang | The Origin of the Universe and What Lies Beyond by Laura Mersini-Houghton explores the author’s theory of the existence of a multiverse. The incredible scientific saga of one woman’s mind-expanding journey through the multiverse, Before the Big Bang will reshape our understanding of humanity’s place in the unfathomable vastness of the cosmos.
We Have Tired of Violence: A True Story of Murder, Memory, and the Fight for Justice in Indonesia by Matt Easton is a chilling work of true crime about the midair murder of a human rights activist, set against a riveting political drama in the world’s fourth-largest nation. The story uncovers a conspiracy involving spies, a mysterious co-pilot, threats of violence and black magic, and deadly poison.
