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ADAM ZAMOYSKI

NAPOLEON A Life

hat a novel my life has been!” “ Napoleon once said of himself. W Born into a poor family, the callow young man was, by twenty-six, an army general. Seduced by an older woman, his marriage transformed him into a galvanizing military commander. The Pope crowned him as Emperor of the French when he was only thirty-five. Within a few years, he became the effective master of Europe, his power unparalleled in modern history. His downfall was no less dramatic. The story of Napoleon has been written many times. In some versions, he is a military genius, The definitive biography of in others a war-obsessed tyrant. Here, historian Napoleon, revealing the true Adam Zamoyski cuts through the mythology and man behind the legend explains Napoleon against the background of the European Enlightenment, and what he was himself seeking to achieve. This most famous of men is also the most hidden of men, and Zamoyski NEW HARDCOVER • OCTOBER dives deeper than any previous biographer to find Biography / History • $40.00 / $45.00 CAN him. Beautifully written, Napoleon brilliantly sets 6 x 9G • 800 pages the man in his European context. Forty-eight color illustrations and thirty-two maps ADAM ZAMOYSKI is the 978-0-465-05593-7

author of numerous books E-BOOK 978-1-5416-4455-7 about Polish and European Selling Territory: USC history, and has written for publications including the Times (London), the Times Literary Supplement, and the Guardian. He lives in London and Poland.

basic books 3 YORAM HAZONY

THE VIRTUE OF NATIONALISM

ationalism is the issue of our age. From Donald Trump’s “America N First” politics to Brexit to the rise of the right in Europe, events have forced a crucial debate: Should we fight for international govern- ment? Or should the world’s nations keep their independence and self-determination? In The Virtue of Nationalism, Yoram Hazony contends that a world of sovereign nations is the only option for those who care about personal and collective freedom. He recounts how, beginning A leading conservative thinker in the sixteenth century, English, Dutch, and argues that a nationalist order is American Protestants revived the Old Testament’s the only realistic safeguard of love of national independence, and shows how liberty in the world today their vision eventually brought freedom to peoples from Poland to India, Israel to Ethiopia. It is this tradition we must restore, he argues, if we want to limit conflict and hate—and allow human difference and innovation to flourish. NEW HARDCOVER • SEPTEMBER Political Science • $28.00 / $36.50 CAN 6 x 9G • 304 pages YORAM HAZONY i s 978-1-5416-4537-0 president of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem and director of the E-BOOK 978-1-5416-4538-7 John Templeton Foundation’s Selling Territory: W project in Jewish Philosophical Theology. His books include The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel’s Soul and The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture. He lives in Jerusalem.

basic books 4 MARK W. MOFFETT

THE HUMAN SWARM How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall

f a chimpanzee ventures into the territory of a different group, it will almost certainly I be killed. But a New Yorker can fly to Los Angeles—or Borneo—with very little fear. Psychologists have done little to explain this: for years, they have held that our biology puts a hard upper limit—about 150 people—on the size of our social groups. But human societies are in fact vastly larger. How do we manage, by and large, to get along with each other? In this paradigm-shattering book, biologist Mark W. Moffett draws on findings in psychology, The epic story of how humans sociology, and anthropology to explain the social evolved from intimate chimp adaptations that bind societies. He explores how communities into a world- the tension between identity and anonymity dominating species defines how societies develop, function, and fail. In the vein of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Sapiens, The Human Swarm reveals how mankind created sprawling civilizations of unrivaled complexity— NEW HARDCOVER • FEBRUARY and what it will take to sustain them. Science/Anthropology • $32.00 / $42.00 CAN 6 x 9G • 384 pages MARK W. MOFFETT, called Twenty-four black-and-white illustrations “a daring eco-adventurer” by 978-0-465-05568-5 Margaret Atwood, is a biologist E-BOOK 978-1-5416-1729-2 and research associate at the Selling Territory: W Smithsonian. He has also Author photo © Lara Heimert authored four books. A resident of New York, he has been a regular guest on The Colbert Report, Conan, NPR’s Fresh Air, and CBS Sunday Morning. He lives in New York City.

basic books 5 JOHN HOLL

DRINK BEER, THINK BEER Getting to the Bottom of Every Pint

ight here, right now is the best time in the history of mankind to be a beer R drinker. America now has more brew- eries than at any time since prohibition, and globally, beer culture is thriving and constantly innovating. Drinkers can order beer brewed with local yeast or infused with moondust. However, beer drinkers are also faced with uneven quality and misinformation about flavors. And the industry itself is suffering from growing pains, beset by problems such as unequal access to taps, From an award-winning journalist skewed pricing, and sexism. and beer expert, a thoughtful Drawing on history, economics, and inter- and witty guide to understanding views with industry insiders, John Holl provides and enjoying beer a complete guide to beer today, allowing readers to think critically about the best beverage in the world. Full of entertaining anecdotes and surprising opinions, Drink Beer, Think Beer is a must-read for beer lovers, from casual enthusiasts NEW HARDCOVER • SEPTEMBER Cooking • $26.00 / $34.00 CAN to die-hard hop heads. 5½ x 8G • 288 pages 978-0-465-09551-3 JOHN HOLL is senior editor of Craft Beer and Brewing E-BOOK 978-0-465-09553-7 Magazine and the former editor Selling Territory: W of All About Beer Magazine. He’s Author photo © Tim Ivy cohost of the Steal This Beer podcast, author of The American Craft Beer Cookbook and a Great American Beer Festival judge. Holl lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.

basic books 6 RICHARD BROOKHISER

JOHN MARSHALL The Man Who Made the Supreme Court

n 1801, a genial and brilliant Revolutionary War veteran and politician became the I fourth chief justice of the United States. He would hold the post for thirty-four years (still a record), expounding the Constitution he loved. Before he joined the Court, it was the weakling of the federal government, lacking in dignity and clout. After he died, it could never be ignored again. Through three decades of dramatic cases involving businessmen, scoundrels, Native Americans, and slaves, Marshall defended the federal government against unruly states, established the Supreme Court’s right to rebuke The life of John Marshall, Congress or the president, and unleashed the founding father and America’s power of American commerce. For better and preeminent chief justice for worse, he made the Supreme Court a pillar of American life. In John Marshall, award-winning biographer Richard Brookhiser vividly chronicles America’s NEW HARDCOVER • NOVEMBER greatest judge and the world he made. Biography / History • $30.00 / $39.00 CAN 6 x 9G • 272 pages RICHARD BROOKHISER Thirty black-and-white illustrations is a senior editor of National 978-0-465-09622-0 Review and the author of twelve E-BOOK 978-0-465-09623-7 books, including Founder’s Selling Territory: W Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln; Author photo © Lara Heimert Alexander Hamilton; American; and Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington. He lives in New York City.

basic books 7 JAMES BARR

LORDS OF THE DESERT The Battle Between the United States and Great Britain for Supremacy in the Modern Middle East

e usually assume that Arab nation- alism brought about the end of W the British Empire in the Middle East—that Gamal Abdel Nasser and other Arab leaders led popular uprisings against colonial rule that forced the overstretched British from the region. In Lords of the Desert, historian James Barr draws on newly declassified archives to argue instead that the US was the driving force behind the British exit. Though the two nations were An authoritative history of allies, they found themselves at odds over just how the US supplanted about every question, from who owned Saudi Great Britain as the preeminent Arabia’s oil to who should control the Suez power in the Middle East Canal. Encouraging and exploiting widespread opposition to the British, the US intrigued its way to power—ultimately becoming as resented as the British had been. As Barr shows, it is impossible to understand the region today without first NEW HARDCOVER • SEPTEMBER History • $32.00 / $42.00 CAN grappling with this little-known prehistory. 6 x 9G • 432 pages Twenty black-and-white illustrations JAMES BARR is a visiting 978-0-465-05063-5 fellow at King’s College London and the author of A Line in the E-BOOK 978-1-5416-1740-7 Sand and Setting the Desert on Selling Territory: USC Fire. He lives in London. Author photo © Jaime Turner

basic books 8 GEOFFREY WAWRO

SONS OF FREEDOM The Forgotten American Soldiers who Defeated Germany in World War I

he American contribution to World War I is one of the great stories of the T twentieth century, and yet it has all but vanished from view. Historians have dismissed the American war effort as largely economic and symbolic. But as Geoffrey Wawro shows inSons of Freedom, the French and British were on the verge of collapse in 1918, and would have lost the war without the Doughboys. Field Marshal Douglas Haig, commander of the British Expeditionary Force, described the Allied victory as a “miracle”— but it was a distinctly American miracle. InSons of Freedom, prize-winning historian Geoffrey Wawro The definitive history of weaves together in thrilling detail the battles, America’s decisive role strategic deliberations, and dreadful human cost in World War I of the American war effort. A major revision of the history of World War I, Sons of Freedom resurrects the brave heroes who saved the Allies, defeated Germany, and established the United States as NEW HARDCOVER • SEPTEMBER the greatest of the great powers. History • $35.00 / $45.50 CAN 6 x 9G • 608 pages GEOFFREY WAWRO is Fifteen black-and-white illustrations professor of history and director and eleven maps of the Military History Center at 978-0-465-09391-5

the University of North Texas E-BOOK 978-0-465-09392-2 and the author of six books, Selling Territory: USC including A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World Author photo © Matias Wawro War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire. Wawro lives in Dallas, Texas.

basic books 9 HENRY NICHOLLS

SLEEPYHEAD The Neuroscience of a Good Night’s Rest

hether it’s a bout of bad jet lag or a stress-induced all-nighter, we’ve W all suffered from nights that left us feeling less than well-rested. But for some people, getting a bad night’s sleep isn’t just an inconvenience: it’s a nightmare. In Sleepyhead, science writer Henry Nicholls uses his own experience with chronic narcolepsy as a gateway to better understanding the cryptic, curious, and relatively uncharted world of sleep disorders. We meet insomniacs who can’t get any sleep, narcoleptics who can’t control when they sleep, A narcoleptic’s tireless and sleep apnea victims who nearly suffocate in journey through the neuroscience their sleep. We learn the underlying difference of disordered sleep between morning larks and night owls; why our sleeping habits shift as we grow older; and the evolutionary significance of REM sleep and dreaming. Charming, eye-opening, and deeply humanizing, Sleepyhead will help us all uncover NEW HARDCOVER • SEPTEMBER Science • $30.00 / $39.00 CAN the secrets of a good night’s sleep. 6 x 9G • 288 pages 978-1-5416-7257-4 HENRY NICHOLLS is a renowned science writer and E-BOOK 978-1-5416-7256-7 author of three books. He Selling Territory: USC has also written for Nature, New Scientist, and hosts the Guardian’s “Animal Magic” blog. Nicholls lives in London.

basic books 10 EUGENIA CHENG

THE ART OF LOGIC IN AN ILLOGICAL WORLD

n a world where fake news stories change election outcomes, has rationality become I futile? In The Art of Logic in an Illogical World, Eugenia Cheng throws a lifeline to readers drowning in the illogic of contemporary life. Cheng is a mathematician, so she knows how to make an airtight argument. But even for her, logic sometimes falls prey to emotion, which is why she still fears flying and eats more cookies than she should. If a mathematician can’t be logical, what are we to do? In this book, Cheng reveals the inner workings and limitations of logic, and explains why alogic—for example, emotion—is How logical and emotional vital to how we think and communicate. Cheng reasoning can both help us live shows us how to use logic and alogic together to better in our post-truth world navigate a world awash in bigotry, mansplaining, and manipulative memes. Insightful, useful, and funny, this essential book is for anyone who wants to think more clearly. NEW HARDCOVER • SEPTEMBER Philosophy / Mathematics • $27.00 / $35.50 CAN EUGENIA CHENG is the 5½ x 8G • 288 pages Scientist in Residence at the 978-1-5416-7248-2 School of the Art Institute of E-BOOK 978-1-5416-7250-5 Chicago and an Honorary Fellow at the University of Sheffield. Selling Territory: USC The author of How to Bake Pi and Beyond Infinity, Author photo © Charlie Round-Turner she lives in Chicago, Illinois.

basic books 11 RUPERT CHRISTIANSEN

CITY OF LIGHT The Making of Modern Paris

n 1853, French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious pro- I gram of public works in Paris, directed by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine. Haussmann transformed the old medieval city of squalid slums and disease-ridden alleyways into a “City of Light” characterized by wide boulevards, apartment blocks, parks, squares and public monuments, new rail stations and department stores, and a new system of public sanitation. City of Light charts this fifteen-year A sparkling account of the project of urban renewal, which—despite the nineteenth-century reinvention interruptions of war, revolution, corruption, of Paris as the most beautiful, and bankruptcy—set a template for nineteenth- exciting city in the world and early twentieth-century urban planning and created the enduring landscape of modern Paris now so famous around the globe. Lively and engaging, City of Light is a book for anyone who wants to know how Paris NEW HARDCOVER • OCTOBER History • $25.00 / $32.50 CAN became Paris. 5 x 7½ • 224 pages Twenty-three black-and-white illustrations RUPERT CHRISTIANSEN 978-1-5416-7339-7 has been writing about the arts for the Daily Telegraph E-BOOK 978-1-5416-7343-4 since 1996. His many books Selling Territory: USC include Prima Donna, Paris Author photo © Alex Hansen Babylon, and Romantic Affinities, which received the Somerset Maugham Award. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature since 1997, he teaches at Keble College, Oxford, and lives in London.

basic books 12 FRANK TALLIS

THE INCURABLE ROMANTIC And Other Tales of Madness and Desire

n The Incurable Romantic, Frank Tallis recounts the extraordinary stories of I patients who are, quite literally, madly in love: a woman becomes utterly convinced that her dentist is secretly infatuated with her and drives him to leave the country; a man destroys his massive fortune through trysts with over three thousand prostitutes—because his ego requires that they fall in love with him; a beautiful woman’s pathological jealousy destroys the men who love her. Along the way, we learn a great deal about the history of psychiatry and the role of neuroscience “Writer and subject were in addressing disordered love. Elegantly written rarely better matched. This is a and infused with deep sympathy, The Incurable brilliant, compelling book.” Romantic shows how all of us can become a bit —Ian McEwan crazy in love.

FRANK TALLIS is a clinical psychologist and the critically NEW HARDCOVER • SEPTEMBER acclaimed author of over fifteen Psychology • $27.00 / $35.50 CAN fiction and nonfiction titles. 5½ x 8G • 304 pages He previously taught clinical 978-1-5416-1755-1 psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry and E-BOOK 978-1-5416-1753-7 neuroscience at King’s College, London. He splits his time between London and Bonnieux, France. Selling Territory: USC Author photo © Alexander Tallis

basic books 13 VIVIEN SCHWEITZER

A MAD LOVE An Introduction to Opera

here are few art forms as visceral and emotional as opera—and few that are T as daunting for newcomers. A Mad Love offers a spirited and indispensable tour of opera’s eclectic past and present, beginning with Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo in 1607, generally considered the first successful opera, through classics like Carmen and La Bohème, and spanning to Brokeback Mountain and The Death of Klinghoffer in recent years. Musician and critic Vivien Schweitzer acquaints readers with the genre’s most important composers and some of its most influential A lively introduction to opera, performers, recounts its long-standing debates, from the Renaissance to the and explains its essential terminology. twenty-first century Today, opera is everywhere, from the historic houses of major opera companies to movie theaters and public parks to offbeat performance spaces and our earbuds. A Mad Love is an essential book for anyone who wants to appreciate this NEW HARDCOVER • SEPTEMBER Music • $27.00 / $35.50 CAN living, evolving art form in all its richness. 5½ x 8G • 272 pages 978-0-465-09693-0 VIVIEN SCHWEITZER is a writer and pianist based in New E-BOOK 978-0-465-09694-7 York. She worked for ten years Selling Territory: W as a classical music and opera Author photo © Chevas Rolfe critic for the New York Times. She has also written for the BBC, the Moscow Times, and the Economist.

basic books 14 JESSE NORMAN

ADAM SMITH Father of Economics

dam Smith (1723–1790) is now widely regarded as the greatest economist of A all time. But what he really thought, and the implications of his ideas, remain fiercely contested. Was he an eloquent advocate of capitalism and individual freedom? A prime mover of “market fundamentalism”? An apologist for human selfishness? Or something else entirely? In Adam Smith, political philosopher Jesse Norman dispels the myths and caricatures, and provides a far more complex portrait of the man. A dazzling account of the life Offering a highly engaging account of Smith’s life and thought of Adam Smith, the and times, Norman explores his work as a whole greatest economist of all time and traces his influence over two centuries to the present day. Finally, he shows how a proper understanding of Smith can help us address the problems of modern capitalism. The Smith who emerges from this book is not only the greatest of NEW HARDCOVER • SEPTEMBER all economists but a pioneering theorist of moral Biography / Politics • $30.00 / $39.00 CAN philosophy, culture, and society. 6 x 9G • 400 pages Twelve black-and-white illustrations JESSE NORMAN, MP, is 978-0-465-06197-6 widely regarded as one of the E-BOOK 978-0-465-09321-2 rising stars of the British Selling Territory: USC House of Commons. A former Author photo © Richard Weaver Parliamentarian of the Year, he was educated at Oxford (BA) and holds a PhD in philosophy from University College London. His previous books include Edmund Burke: The First Conservative.

basic books 15 MATTHEW D. HOCKENOS

THEN THEY CAME FOR ME Martin Niemöller, the Pastor Who Defied the Nazis

ew today recognize the name Martin Niemöller, though many know his F famous confession. In Then They Came for Me, Matthew Hockenos traces Niemöller’s evolution from a Nazi supporter to a determined opponent of Hitler, revealing him to be a more complicated figure than previously understood. Born into a traditionalist Prussian family, Niemöller welcomed Hitler’s rise to power as an opportunity for national rebirth. Yet when the regime attempted to seize control of the Protestant Church, he helped lead the opposition “First they came for the Communists, and was soon arrested. After spending the war and I did not speak out—Because in concentration camps, Niemöller emerged a I was not a Communist…” controversial figure: to his supporters he was a modern Luther, while his critics, including President Harry Truman, saw him as an unre- pentant nationalist. A nuanced portrait of courage in the face of NEW HARDCOVER • SEPTEMBER Biography/History • $32.00 / $42.00 CAN evil, Then They Came for Me puts the question to 6 x 9G • 320 pages us today: What would I have done? Eighteen black-and-white illustrations 978-0-465-09786-9 MATTHEW D. HOCKENOS is the Harriet Johnson Toadvine E-BOOK 978-0-465-09787-6 ’56 Professor in 20th-Century Selling Territory: USC History at Skidmore College. Author photo © Erin Covey The author of A Church Divided: German Protestants Confront the Nazi Past, he lives in Round Lake, New York.

basic books 16 ADRIAN TINNISWOOD

BEHIND THE THRONE A Domestic History of the British Royal Household

onarchs: they’re just like us. They entertain their friends and eat and M worry about money. Henry VIII tripped over his dogs. George II threw his son out of the house. James I had to cut back on the alcohol bills. In Behind the Throne, historian Adrian Tinniswood uncovers the reality of five centuries of life at the English court, taking the reader on a remarkable journey from one Queen Elizabeth to another and exploring life as it was lived by clerks and courtiers and clowns and crowned heads: the An upstairs/downstairs history power struggles and petty rivalries, the tension of the British royal court, between duty and desire, the practicalities of from the Middle Ages to the cooking dinner for thousands and of ensuring the reign of Queen Elizabeth II king always won when he played a game of tennis. A masterful and witty social history of five centuries of royal life, Behind the Throne offers a grand tour of England’s grandest households. NEW HARDCOVER • OCTOBER History • $32.00 / $42.00 CAN ADRIAN TINNISWOOD is 6 x 9G • 416 pages senior research fellow in history Twenty color and twenty-four at the University of Bucking- black-and-white illustrations ham and the author of The Long 978-0-465-09402-8

Weekend and The Verneys, which E-BOOK 978-0-465-09403-5 was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. He Selling Territory: USC was awarded an OBE for services to heritage by her Author photo © Helen Rogers majesty, the Queen, and lives in Bath, England.

basic books 17 SRINATH RAGHAVAN

FIERCE ENIGMAS A History of the United States in South Asia

outh Asia looms large in American foreign policy. Over the past two decades, we have S spent billions of dollars and thousands of human lives in the region, to seemingly little effect. As Srinath Raghavan reveals in Fierce Enigmas, this should not surprise us. For 230 years, America’s engagement with India, Afghanistan, and Pakistan has been charac- terized by short-term thinking and unintended consequences. Beginning with American traders in India in the eighteenth century, the region has The two-hundred-year history become a locus for American efforts—secular of the United States’ involvement and religious—to remake the world in its image. in South Asia—the key to The definitive history of US involvement understanding contemporary in South Asia, Fierce Enigmas is also a clarion American policy in the region call to fundamentally rethink our approach to the region.

SRINATH RAGHAVAN NEW HARDCOVER • OCTOBER is a senior fellow at the History • $40.00 / $52.00 CAN 6 x 9G • 496 pages Centre for Policy Research 978-0-465-03019-4 in New Delhi and a visiting senior research fellow at E-BOOK 978-1-5416-9881-9 King’s College London. He is the author of Selling Territory: W three books, including India’s War: The Making of Modern South Asia, 1939–1945. He lives in Mumbai.

basic books 18 JOHN EISENBERG

THE LEAGUE How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire

he National Football League is a towering, distinctly American colossus spewing T out $13 billion in annual revenue. Yet its current dominance has obscured how professional football got its start. In The League, John Eisenberg reveals that Art Rooney, George Halas, Tim Mara, George Preston Marshall, and Bert Bell took an immense risk by investing in the professional game. At that time the sport barely registered on the national scene; college football, baseball, boxing, and horse- racing dominated. The five owners succeeded only The epic tale of the five owners who because at critical junctures over the following shepherded the NFL through its decades each sacrificed the short-term success of tumultuous early decades and built his team for the longer-term good of the League. the most popular sport in America At once a history of a sport and a remarkable story of business ingenuity, The League is an essential read for any fan of our true national pastime.

NEW HARDCOVER • OCTOBER JOHN EISENBERG is Sports / Biography • $30.00 / $39.00 CAN the author of nine previous 6 x 9G • 336 pages books, including That First Seventeen black-and-white illustrations Season and Ten-Gallon War, 978-0-465-04870-0 and a former sportswriter for E-BOOK 978-1-5416-1737-7 the Baltimore Sun. He also has written for Sports Selling Territory: W Illustrated and Smithsonian Magazine. Eisenberg Author photo © Phill Hoffmann lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

basic books 19 DAVID S.HEIDLER AND JEANNE T. HEIDLER

THE RISE OF ANDREW JACKSON Myth, Manipulation, and the Making of Modern Politics

ndrew Jackson was volatile and prone to violence, and well into his forties A his sole claim on the public’s affections derived from his victory in a thirty-minute battle at New Orleans in early 1815. Yet those in his immediate circle believed he was a great man who should be president of the United States. Jackson’s election in 1828 is usually viewed as a result of the expansion of democracy. Historians David and Jeanne Heidler argue that he actually owed his victory to his closest supporters, who The story of Andrew Jackson’s wrote hagiographies of him, founded newspapers improbable ascent to the White to savage his enemies, and built a political network House, centered on the handlers and that was always on message. In transforming a propagandists who made it possible difficult man into a paragon of republican virtue, the Jacksonites exploded the old order and created a mode of electioneering that has been mimicked ever since.

NEW HARDCOVER • OCTOBER JEANNE T. HEIDLER is History • $32.00 / $42.00 CAN 6 x 9G • 400 pages professor emerita of history Eleven black-and-white illustrations at the United States Air Force 978-0-465-09756-2 Academy. She and her husband, DAVID S. HEIDLER, have E-BOOK 978-0-465-09757-9 collaborated on numerous books including Selling Territory: W the critically acclaimed Henry Clay: The Author photo © Don Jones, Essential American and Washington’s Circle: The Studio Nine Commercial Photography Creation of the President. They live in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

basic books 20 SARAH CHURCHWELL

BEHOLD, AMERICA The Entangled History of “America First” and “the American Dream”

n Behold, America, Sarah Churchwell offers a surprising account of twentieth-century I Americans’ fierce battle for the nation’s soul. It follows the stories of two phrases—the “American dream” and “America First”—that once embodied opposing visions for America. Starting as a Republican motto before becoming a hugely influential isolationist slogan during World War I, America First was always closely linked with authoritarianism and white supremacy. The American dream, meanwhile, initially represented a broad vision of democratic and economic equality. Churchwell traces these The unknown history of two notions through the 1920s boom, the Depression, ideas crucial to the struggle over and the rise of fascism at home and abroad, laying what America stands for bare the persistent appeal of demagoguery in America and showing us how it was resisted. At a time when many ask what America’s future holds, Behold, America is a revelatory, unvarnished NEW HARDCOVER • SEPTEMBER portrait of where we have been. History / Politics • $32.00 / $42.00 CAN 6 x 9G • 368 pages SARAH CHURCHWELL is 978-1-5416-7340-3 professor of American literature E-BOOK 978-1-5416-7342-7 and public understanding of the humanities at the University Selling Territory: USC of London. The author and editor of several previous books, including the acclaimed Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of the Great Gatsby, she is a native of Chicago, now living in London.

basic books 21 LANCE ESPLUND

THE ART OF LOOKING How to Read Modern and Contemporary Art

hand-signed porcelain urinal. An abstract drip painting. A silent 700 A hour performance. Art has changed since the days of Giotto, Michelangelo, and even Picasso—and many of us are perplexed. Do modern and contemporary artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Jackson Pollock, and Marina Abramovi´c represent civilization’s highest achievements? Or is something else afoot? In The Art of Looking, art critic Lance Esplund demonstrates that works of modern and contemporary art are not as indecipherable A veteran art critic helps us as they seem to be. He reveals the threads that make sense of modern and weave the art of the past with that of the present, contemporary art and shows us how to separate the genuine article from mere rags—not to mention the emperor’s new clothes. With patience, insight, and wit, Esplund guides us through a century of art, and empowers NEW HARDCOVER • OCTOBER Art • $27.00 / $35.50 CAN us to understand and appreciate all art with 5½ x 8G • 272 pages new eyes. Eighteen color images and thirty black-and-white illustrations LANCE ESPLUND is an art 978-0-465-09466-0 critic for the Wall Street Journal.

E-BOOK 978-0-465-09467-7 Trained as a painter, he has taught at the Parsons School Selling Territory: W for Design and the New York Author photo © Sonya German Studio School. His essays have appeared in Art in America, Harper’s, and The New Republic among others. Esplund lives in Milton, Pennsylvania, and Brooklyn, New York.

basic books 22 ROB DUNN

NEVER HOME ALONE From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live

ven when the floors are sparkling clean and the house seems silent, our domestic E domain is wild beyond imagination. In Never Home Alone, biologist Rob Dunn introduces us to the nearly 200,000 species living with us in our own homes, from the Egyptian meal moths in our cupboards and camel crickets in our basements to the lactobacillus lounging on our kitchen counters. We are not alone. Yet, as we obsess over sterilizing our homes and separating our spaces from nature, we are unwit- tingly cultivating an entirely new playground A natural history of the for evolution. These changes are reshaping the wilderness in our homes, from the organisms that live with us—prompting some microbes in our showers to to become more dangerous, while undermining the crickets in our basements those species that benefit our bodies or help us keep more threatening organisms at bay. No one who reads this engrossing, revelatory book will look at their homes in the same way again. NEW HARDCOVER • NOVEMBER Nature • $30.00 / $39.00 CAN ROB DUNN is a professor in 6 x 9G • 336 pages the Department of Applied Twenty black-and-white illustrations Ecology at North Carolina 978-1-5416-4576-9 State University and in the E-BOOK 978-1-5416-4574-5 Natural History Museum of Selling Territory: W Denmark at the University of Copenhagen. He Author photo © Amanda Ward is also the author of five books. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.

basic books 23 MARION NESTLE

UNSAVORY TRUTH How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat

s chocolate heart-healthy? Does yogurt prevent type 2 diabetes? Do pomegranates I help cheat death? News accounts bombard us with such amazing claims, report them as science, and influence what we eat. Yet, as Marion Nestle explains, these studies are more about marketing than science; they are often paid for by companies that sell those foods. Whether it’s a Coca-Cola-backed study hailing light exercise as a calorie neutralizer, or blueberry-sponsored investigators proclaiming that this fruit prevents America’s leading nutritionist erectile dysfunction, every corner of the food exposes how the food industry knows how to turn conflicted research industry corrupts scientific into big profit. As Nestle argues, it’s time to put research for profit public health first. Written with unmatched rigor and insight, Unsavory Truth reveals how the food industry manipulates nutrition science—and suggests what we can do about it.

NEW HARDCOVER • OCTOBER MARION NESTLE is the Health / Nutrition • $30.00 / $39.00 CAN 6 x 9G • 304 pages Paulette Goddard Professor of Nineteen tables and figures Nutrition, Food Studies, and 978-1-5416-9711-9 Public Health, emerita, at New

E-BOOK 978-1-5416-1731-5 York University, and visiting professor of nutritional sciences at Cornell. She Selling Territory: W has a PhD in molecular biology and an MPH in Author photo © Bill Hayes Photo public health nutrition from UC Berkeley. She lives in New York City.

basic books 24 VENKI RAMAKRISHNAN

GENE MACHINE The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome

veryone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for E life. It is the ribosome—an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms— that makes DNA come to life, turning our genetic code into proteins and therefore into us. Gene Machine is Venki Ramakrishnan's insider account of the race for the structure of the ribosome, a fundamental discovery that both advances our knowledge of all life and could lead to the development of better antibiotics against life-threatening diseases. But this is also a human A Nobel Prize—winning biologist story of Ramakrishnan’s unlikely journey, from tells the riveting story of his race his first fumbling experiments in a biology lab to discover the inner workings of to being the dark horse in a fierce competition biology’s most important molecule with some of the world’s best scientists. In the end, Gene Machine is a frank insider’s account of the pursuit of high-stakes science, and how it is really done. NEW HARDCOVER • NOVEMBER Science/Biography & Autobiography VENKI RAMAKRISHNAN $28.00 / $36.50 CAN shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in 6 x 9G • 288 pages Chemistry for uncovering the Thirty-six illustrations structure of the ribosome. He 978-0-465-09336-6

is a senior scientist at the MRC E-BOOK 978-0-465-09337-3 Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, Selling Territory: USC UK, and also the president of the Royal Society in London.

basic books 25 ERIC RAUCHWAY

WINTER WAR Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash Over the New Deal

hen Franklin Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover in the 1932 election, W they represented not only different political parties but vastly different approaches to the question of the day: How could the nation recover from the Great Depression? As historian Eric Rauchway shows in Winter War, FDR laid out coherent, far-ranging plans for the New Deal in the months prior to his inauguration. Meanwhile, still-President Hoover, worried about FDR’s abilities and afraid The history of the most of the president-elect’s policies, became the first acrimonious presidential handoff comprehensive critic of the New Deal. Thus, even in American history—and of before FDR took office, both the principles of the the origins of twentieth-century welfare state, and reaction against it, had already liberalism and conservatism taken form. Winter War reveals how, in the months before the hundred days, FDR and Hoover battled over ideas and shaped the divisive politics of the NEW HARDCOVER • NOVEMBER History • $28.00 / $36.50 CAN twentieth century. 6 x 9G • 288 pages 978-0-465-09458-5 ERIC RAUCHWAY is an eminent historian and expert E-BOOK 978-0-465-09459-2 on the New Deal era at the Selling Territory: W University of California, Davis. Author photo © Regents of the University of California He is the author of several acclaimed books on the 1930s and 1940s, and has contributed to publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Times Literary Supplement. He lives in Davis, California.

basic books 26 EDWARD J. WATTS

MORTAL REPUBLIC How Rome Fell into Tyranny

n Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the I fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean’s premier military and political power, its governing institutions, parliamentary rules, and political customs successfully fostered negotiation and compromise. By the 130s BC, however, Rome’s leaders increasingly used these same tools to cynically pursue individual gain and obstruct their opponents. As the center decayed and dysfunction grew, arguments A new history of the between politicians gave way to political violence Roman Republic and its collapse in the streets. The stage was set for destructive civil wars—and ultimately the imperial reign of Augustus. The death of Rome’s Republic was not inevitable. In Mortal Republic, Watts shows it died NEW HARDCOVER • NOVEMBER because it was allowed to, from thousands of small History • $30.00 / $39.00 CAN wounds inflicted by Romans who assumed that it 6 x 9G • 352 pages would last forever. Twenty-five black-and-white illustrations 978-0-465-09381-6 holds EDWARD J. WATTS E-BOOK 978-0-465-09382-3 the Alkiviadis Vassiliadis Chair Selling Territory: W and is professor of history at the Author photo © Katharine Calandra University of California, San Diego. The author and editor of several prize-winning books, including The Final Pagan Generation, he lives in Carlsbad, California.

basic books 27 JAMES HORN

1619 Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy

long the banks of the James River, Virginia, during an oppressively hot A spell in the middle of summer 1619, two events occurred within a few weeks of each other that would profoundly shape the course of history. In the newly built church at Jamestown, the General Assembly—the first gathering of a representative governing body in America—came together. A few weeks later, a battered privateer entered the Chesapeake Bay carrying the first African slaves to land on mainland English America. An extraordinary year in which In 1619, historian James Horn sheds new light American democracy and American on the year that gave birth to the great paradox slavery emerged hand in hand of our nation: slavery in the midst of freedom. This portentous year marked both the origin of the most important political development in American history, the rise of democracy, and the emergence of what would in time become one of NEW HARDCOVER • OCTOBER History • $27.00 / $35.50 CAN the nation’s greatest challenges: the corrosive 6 x 9G • 256 pages legacy of racial inequality that has afflicted Three black-and-white illustrations and four maps America since its beginning. 978-0-465-06469-4 is the E-BOOK 978-1-5416-9880-2 JAMES HORN president of the Jamestown Selling Territory: W Rediscovery Foundation. He is Author photo © Michael Lavin author and editor of five books on colonial American history, including A Land As God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America and A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.

basic books 28 LAUREN E. OAKES

IN SEARCH OF THE CANARY TREE The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World

everal years ago, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes set out from California for Alaska’s S old-growth forests to hunt for a dying tree: the yellow-cedar. With climate change as the culprit, the death of this species meant loss for many Alaskans. Oakes and her research team wanted to chronicle how plants and people could cope with their rapidly changing world. Amidst the standing dead, she discovered the resiliency of forgotten forests, flourishing again in the wake of destruction, and a diverse community of people who persevered to create new relationships with The surprisingly hopeful story the emerging environment. Eloquent, insightful, of one woman’s search for and deeply heartening, In Search of the Canary Tree is a case for hope in a warming world. resiliency in a warming world

LAUREN E. OAKES is a conservation scientist at the Wildlife Conservation Society NEW HARDCOVER • NOVEMBER and an adjunct lecturer in Science • $27.00 / $35.50 CAN Earth System Science at 6 x 9G • 272 pages Stanford University. She lives in Portola Valley, Fourteen black-and-white illustrations California and Bozeman, Montana. and three maps 978-1-5416-9712-6

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basic books 29 SCOTT E. PAGE

THE MODEL THINKER What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You

rom the stock market to genomics laboratories, census figures to mar- F keting email blasts, we are awash with data. But as anyone who has ever opened up a spreadsheet packed with seemingly infinite lines of data knows, numbers aren’t enough: we need to know how to make those numbers talk. In The Model Thinker, social scientist Scott E. Page shows us the mathematical, statistical, and computational models—from linear regression to random walks and far beyond—that can turn anyone into a genius. At the core of the book is How anyone can become Page’s “many-model paradigm,” which shows the a data ninja reader how to apply multiple models to organize the data, leading to wiser choices, more accurate predictions, and more robust designs. The Model Thinker provides a toolkit for business people, students, scientists, pollsters, and bloggers to make them better, clearer thinkers, able to NEW HARDCOVER • NOVEMBER Computer Science/Mathematics leverage data and information to their advantage. $32.00 / $42.00 CAN 6 x 9G • 400 pages SCOTT E. PAGE is the 150 illustrations Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate 978-0-465-09462-2 Professor of Complex Systems,

E-BOOK 978-0-465-09463-9 Political Science, and Eco- nomics at the University of Selling Territory: W Michigan. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Author photo © Cooper Page

basic books 30 JAY SEXTON

A NATION FORGED BY CRISIS A New American History

n A Nation Forged by Crisis, historian Jay Sexton contends that our national narrative I is not one of halting yet inevitable progress, but of repeated disruptions brought about by shifts in the international system. Sexton shows that the American Revolution was a consequence of the increasing integration of the British and American economies; that a necessary precondition for the Civil War was the absence, for the first time in decades, of foreign threats; and that we cannot understand the New Deal without An incisive history of the United examining the role of European immigrants and their offspring in transforming the Demo- States for the age of Trump, arguing cratic Party. that our nation has been shaped from A necessary corrective to conventional the beginning by ruptures much like narratives of American history, A Nation Forged the 2016 presidential election by Crisis argues that we can only prepare for our unpredictable future by first acknowledging the contingencies of our collective past. NEW HARDCOVER • OCTOBER History • $28.00 / $36.50 CAN JAY SEXTON is the Kinder 5½ x 8G • 288 pages Institute Chair in Con- 978-1-5416-1723-0 stitutional Democracy at the E-BOOK 978-1-5416-1722-3 University of Missouri and emeritus fellow at Corpus Selling Territory: W Author photo © Allison Smythe Christi College, Oxford. The author of The Monroe Doctrine and Debtor Diplomacy, Sexton lives in Columbia, Missouri.

basic books 31 GEORGE MORTON-JACK

ARMY OF EMPIRE The Untold Story of the Indian Army in World War I

hile their story is almost always overlooked, the 1.5 million Indian W soldiers who served the British Empire in World War I played a crucial role in the eventual Allied victory. Despite their sacrifices, Indian troops received mixed reactions from their allies and their enemies alike—some were treated as liberating heroes, some as mercenaries and conquerors themselves, and some as racial inferiors and a threat to white supremacy. Yet even as they fought as imperial troops under the Drawing on untapped new sources, British flag, their broadened horizons fired in them new hopes of racial equality and freedom the first global history of the Indian on the path to Indian independence. Expeditionary Forces in World War I Drawing on freshly uncovered interviews with members of the Indian Army in France, Iraq, and elsewhere, historian George Morton- Jack paints a deeply human story of courage, colonization, and racism, and finally gives these NEW HARDCOVER • DECEMBER History • $32.00 / $42.00 CAN men their rightful place in history. 6 x 9G • 352 pages 978-0-465-09404-2 GEORGE MORTON-JACK studied at Oxford University E-BOOK 978-0-465-09407-3 and currently works as a lawyer Selling Territory: USC in London. The author of The Author photo © Sam Hutchison Photography Indian Army on the Western Front, he lives in Bristol, England.

basic books 32 ALEXANDRA NATAPOFF

PUNISHMENT WITHOUT CRIME How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal

unishment Without Crime offers a new interpretation of inequality and P injustice by examining the paradigmatic American crime: the lowly misdemeanor. Based on extensive original research, legal scholar Alexandra Natapoff reveals the inner workings of a massive petty offense system that produces over 13 million cases each year. People arrested for minor crimes are swept through courts where defendants often lack lawyers, judges process cases in minutes, and nearly everyone pleads guilty. This misdemeanor machine A revelatory account of the starts punishing people long before they are misdemeanor machine that convicted; it punishes the innocent; and it unjustly brands millions of punishes conduct that never should have been Americans as criminals a crime. Vast numbers of Americans—most of them poor and people of color—are stigmatized as criminals, impoverished through fines and fees, and stripped of drivers’ licenses, jobs, NEW HARDCOVER • DECEMBER and housing. Law/Social Science • $30.00 / $39.00 CAN For too long, misdemeanors have been 6 x 9G • 352 pages ignored. But they are crucial to understanding 978-0-465-09379-3 our punitive criminal system and our widening E-BOOK 978-0-465-09380-9 economic and racial divides. Selling Territory: W Author photo © Loyola Law School, Los Angeles ALEXANDRA NATAPOFF is professor of law at the University of California, Irvine. A 2016 Guggenheim Fellow, she is the author of Snitching, which won the 2010 ABA Silver Gavel Award Honorable Mention for Books. She lives in Irvine, California.

basic books 33 SUNIL AMRITH

UNRULY WATERS How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia’s History

sia’s history has been shaped by her waters. In Unruly Waters, historian A Sunil Amrith reimagines Asia’s history through the stories of its rains, rivers, coasts, and seas—and of the weather-watchers and engineers, mapmakers and farmers who have sought to control them. Looking out from India, he shows how dreams and fears of water shaped visions of political independence and economic development, provoked efforts to reshape nature through dams and pumps, and unleashed From a MacArthur “Genius,” powerful tensions within and between nations. a bold new perspective on the Today, Asian nations are racing to construct history of Asia, highlighting the hundreds of dams in the Himalayas, with dire long quest to tame its waters environmental impacts; hundreds of millions crowd into coastal cities threatened by cyclones and storm surges. In an age of climate change , Unruly Waters is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand Asia’s past and its future. NEW HARDCOVER • DECEMBER History • $35.00 / $45.50 CAN 6 x 9G • 384 pages SUNIL AMRITH is the Mehra Forty black-and-white illustrations Family Professor of South Asian 978-0-465-09772-2 Studies and professor of history at Harvard University and a 2017 E-BOOK 978-0-465-09773-9 MacArthur Fellow. The prize- Selling Territory: WxUK,CW,EU winning author of Crossing the Bay of Bengal, as Author photo © Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard well as several other books and articles, he lives University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

basic books 34 COLIN JONES

VERSAILLES

othing represents the glorious and fraught history of France quite like the N Palace of Versailles. Made famous by the absolutist king Louis XIV, Versailles became legendary for the splendor of its revels—but then, after the Revolution of 1789, it fell into disrepute as a reminder of royal excess and abuse of power. Subsequent French governments struggled with how to handle the opulent palace and grounds— should the site be memorialized, trivialized, rehabilitated, or even destroyed outright? Drawing on a new wave of recent research, The vivid story of the creation, historian Colin Jones masterfully traces the renovation, and enduring legacy evolution of Versailles as a space of royal politics of the most famous building in and aristocratic pleasures, a building of mythic France: the palace of Versailles status, and one of the world’s great tourist destinations. Accessible and compelling, this book is a must-read for all Francophiles.

NEW HARDCOVER • NOVEMBER COLIN JONES teaches at History • $25.00 / $32.50 CAN Queen Mary University of 5 x 7½ • 240 pages London and the University 978-1-5416-7338-0 of Chicago. He is the author of E-BOOK 978-1-5416-7345-8 many books on French history, including Paris: A Biography of a City. Selling Territory: USC Author photo © Ron Jautz

basic books 35 MICHAEL E. WEBBER

POWER TRIP The Story of Energy

or centuries, humans have relied on energy to power our civilization and F improve our lives, but with our limited physical resources, accumulating environmental impacts, and increasing technological needs, it’s more important than ever to consider new approaches to our energy needs. In Power Trip, Michael E. Webber, energy expert and host of an upcoming documentary, explores energy’s vital role in the history—and future—of our civilization. While energy has stimulated innovation and A global tour of energy—the entrepreneurship, it has also changed the climate, catalyst of human civilization exacerbated geopolitical insecurity, and created and one of the biggest challenges a modern society dependent on largesse and facing mankind today unequipped to handle scarcity. However, with ongoing innovation, longterm thinking, and global cooperation, Webber argues that we can better manage our current energy problems and set ourselves up for a brighter future. NEW HARDCOVER • FEBRUARY Technology & Engineering $27.00 / $35.50 CAN MICHAEL E. WEBBER is 6 x 9G • 272 pages the Josey Centennial Professor Twenty-four black-and-white illustrations in Energy Resources at the 978-1-5416-4439-7 University of Texas, Austin. He

E-BOOK 978-1-5416-4438-0 is also the host of the upcoming documentary Power Trip and the author of Thirst Selling Territory: W for Power. He lives in Austin, Texas. Author photo © Austin Business Journal

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