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The Square and the Tower/Niall Ferguson Advice Not Given/Mark Epstein Winter/Karl Ove Knausgaard Directorate S/Steve Coll Feel Free/Zadie Smith Political Tribes/Amy Chua Astral Weeks/Ryan H. Walsh A Tokyo Romance/Ian Buruma Getting to Us/Seth Davis Dangerous Mystic/Joel Harrington Meltdown/Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik On Grand Strategy/John Lewis Gaddis Untitled/Mark Halperin and John Heilemann Empire of Guns/Priya Satia Cake/Maira Kalman and Barbara Scott-Goodman D C-T!/Joana Avillez and Molly Young

Cover image: © credit tk T H E SQUA R E AND THE TOWER NIALL FERGUSON

isbn: 9780735222915 price: $30.00 on sale: 1/16/2018 T H E SQUA R E AND THE TOWER NIALL FERGUSON

A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we’re living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networks

Most history is hierarchical: it’s about emperors, it is through networks that revolutionary ideas presidents, prime ministers and field marshals. It’s can contagiously spread. Just because conspiracy about states, armies and corporations. It’s about theorists like to fantasize about such networks orders from on high. Even history “from below” doesn’t mean they are not real. is often about trade unions and workers’ parties. From the cults of ancient Rome to the But what if that’s simply because hierarchical dynasties of the Renaissance, from the founding institutions create the archives that historians fathers to Facebook, The Square and the Tower tells rely on? What if we are missing the informal, less the story of the rise, fall and rise of networks, well documented social networks that are the true and shows how network theory—concepts such sources of power and drivers of change? as clustering, degrees of separation, weak ties, The 21st century has been hailed as the Age contagions and phase transitions—can transform of Networks. However, in The Square and the Tower, our understanding of both the past and the present. Niall Ferguson argues that networks have always Just as The Ascent of Money put Wall Street into been with us, from the structure of the brain to the historical perspective, so The Square and the Tower food chain, from the family tree to freemasonry. does the same for Silicon Valley. And it offers a bold Throughout history, hierarchies housed in high prediction about which hierarchies will withstand towers have claimed to rule, but often real power this latest wave of network disruption—and which has resided in the networks in the town square will be toppled. below. For it is networks that tend to innovate. And

NIALL FERGUSON is one of the world’s most renowned historians. He is the author of Paper and Iron, The House of Rothschild, The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus, Empire, Colossus, The War of the World, The Ascent of Money, High Financier, Civilization, The Great Degeneration, and Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist. He is Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. His many awards include the Benjamin Franklin Prize for Public Service (2010), the Hayek Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2012)

isbn: 9780399564321 price: $26.00 on sale: 1/16/2018 ADVICE NOT GIVEN MARK EPSTEIN

Renowned psychiatrist and author Dr. Mark Epstein presents a how-to guide that refuses a quick fix, rooted in two traditions, Buddhism and Western psychotherapy, devoted to maximizing the human potential for living a better life

Our ego, and its accompanying sense of nagging on his own experience, and that of his patients. self-doubt as we work to be bigger, better, and While the ideas of the Eightfold Path are as old as smarter, is one affliction we all share. And, while Buddhism itself, when informed by the sensibility our ego claims to have our best interests at heart, of Western psychotherapy, they become something in its never-ending pursuit of attention and power, more: a roadmap for spiritual and psychological it sabotages the very goals it sets to achieve. In growth, a way of dealing with the problem of the Advice Not Given, Dr. Mark Epstein reveals how ego. Breaking down the wall between East and Buddhism and Western psychotherapy, two West, Epstein offers a rethinking of mindfulness, traditions that developed in entirely different the ability to be with whatever is happening times and places and, until recently, had nothing in the moment, and the benefits to be won of to do with each other, both identify the ego as the teaching people to watch their own minds without limiting factor in our wellbeing, and both come necessarily believing everything they think, ideas to the same conclusion: When we allow the ego to with strong footholds in Buddhism but now for have free reign, we suffer. But when it learns to let the first time within the context of psychotherapy. go, we are free. Our ego is at once our biggest obstacle and our With great insight, and in a deeply personal greatest hope. We can be at its mercy or we can style, Epstein presents to readers a how-to guide, learn to mold it. Completely unique and practical, rooted in two traditions devoted to maximizing Epstein’s advice can be used by all - each in his or the human potential for living a better life. Using her own way - and will provide wise counsel in a the Eightfold Path, eight levels of self-reflection confusing world. After all, as he says, “Our egos can that Buddhists believe lead to enlightenment, as use all the help they can get.” his scaffolding, Epstein looks back productively

DR. MARK EPSTEIN is a psychiatrist in private practice in New York City and the author of a number of books about the interface of Buddhism and psychotherapy, including The Trauma of Everyday Life, Thoughts without a Thinker and Going to Pieces without Falling Apart. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University. W I N T E R KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD

isbn: 9780399563331 price: $27.00 on sale: 1/23/2018 W I N T E R KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD

The second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard’s unborn daughter

2 December - It is strange that you exist, but that you don’t know In his inimitably sensitive style, he writes about the anything about what the world looks like. It’s strange that there is moon, water, messiness, owls, birthdays—to name a first time to see the sky, a first time to see the sun, a first time just a handful of his subjects. These oh-so-familiar to feel the air against one’s skin. It’s strange that there is a first objects and ideas he fills with new meaning, taking time to see a face, a tree, a lamp, pajamas, a shoe. In my life nothing for granted or as given. New life is on it almost never happens anymore. But soon it will. In just a few the horizon, but the earth is also in hibernation, months, I will see you for the first time. waiting for the warmer weather to return, and so a contradictory melancholy inflects his gaze. In Winter, we rejoin the great Karl Ove Startling, compassionate, and exquisitely Knausgaard as he waits for the birth of his beautiful, Knausgaard’s writing is like nothing else. daughter. In preparation for her arrival, he takes Somehow, he shows the world as it really is, at once stock of the world, seeing it as if for the first time. mundane and sublime.

KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD’s first novel, Out of the World, was the first ever debut novel to win the Norwegian Critics’ Prize and his second, A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven, was widely acclaimed. A Death in the Family, the first of theMy Struggle cycle of novels, was awarded the prestigious Brage Award. The My Struggle cycle has been

©Sam Barker heralded as a masterpiece wherever it appears. DIRECTORATE S STEVE COLL

isbn: 9781594204586 price: $35.00 on sale: 2/6/2018 DIRECTORATE S STEVE COLL

Resuming the narrative of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars, bestselling author Steve Coll tells for the first time the epic and enthralling story of America’s intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11

Prior to 9/11, the United States had been carrying S”. This was a swirling and shadowy struggle of out small-scale covert operations in Afghanistan, historic proportions, which endured over a decade ostensibly in cooperation, although often in direct and across both the Bush and Obama administra- opposition, with I.S.I., the Pakistani intelligence tions, involving multiple secret intelligence agen- agency. While the US was trying to quell extrem- cies, a litany of incongruous strategies and tactics, ists, a highly secretive and compartmentalized and dozens of players, including some of the most wing of I.S.I., known as “Directorate S,” was co- prominent military and political figures. A sprawl- vertly training, arming, and seeking to legitimize ing American tragedy, the war was an open clash of the Taliban, in order to enlarge Pakistan’s sphere arms but also a covert melee of ideas, secrets, and of influence. After 9/11, when fifty-nine countries, subterranean violence. led by the U. S., deployed troops or provided aid Coll excavates this grand battle, which took to Afghanistan in an effort to flush out the Taliban place away from the gaze of the American public. and Al Qaeda, the U.S. was set on an invisible slow- With unsurpassed expertise, original research, and motion collision course with Pakistan. attention to detail, he brings to life a narrative at Today we know that the war in Afghanistan once vast and intricate, local and global, propulsive would falter badly because of military hubris at and painstaking. This is the definitive explanation the highest levels of the Pentagon, the drain on of how America came to be so badly ensnared in resources and provocation in Muslim world caused an elaborate, factional, and seemingly intermi- by the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, and corruption. nable conflict in South Asia. Nothing less than a But more than anything, as Coll makes painfully forensic examination of the personal and political clear, the war in Afghanistan was doomed because forces that shape world history, Directorate S is a of the failure of the United States to apprehend the complete masterpiece of both investigative and motivations and intentions of I.S.I.’s “Directorate narrative journalism.

STEVE COLL is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars and the dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, and from 2007 to 2013 was president of the New America Foundation, a public policy institute in Washington, D.C. He is a staff writer for The New Yorker, and previously worked for twenty years at The Washington Post, where he received a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism in 1990. He is the author of seven other books, including his most recent title, Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power. FEEL FREE ZADIE SMITH

isbn: 9781594206252 price: $28.00 on sale: 2/6/2018 FEEL FREE ZADIE SMITH

From Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved authors of her generation, a new collection of essays

Since she burst spectacularly into view with her address global warming? “So I might say to her, debut novel almost two decades ago, Zadie Smith look: the thing you have to appreciate is that we’d has established herself not just as one of the world’s just been through a century of relativism and preeminent fiction writers, but also a brilliant and deconstruction, in which we were informed that singular essayist. She contributes regularly to The most of our fondest-held principles were either New Yorker and the New York Review of Books on a uncertain or simple wishful thinking, and in range of subjects, and each piece of hers is a literary many areas of our lives we had already been asked event in its own right. to accept that nothing is essential and everything Arranged into four sections—In the World, In changes—and this had taken the fight out of us the Audience, On the Bookshelf, and Feel Free— somewhat.” this new collection poses questions we immediately Gathering in one place for the first time recognize. What is The Social Network—and previously unpublished work, as well as already Facebook itself—really about? “It’s a cruel portrait classic essays, such as, “Joy,” and, “Find Your of us: 500 million sentient people entrapped in the Beach,” Feel Free offers a survey of important recent recent careless thoughts of a Harvard sophomore.” events in culture and politics, as well as Smith’s Why do we love libraries? “Well-run libraries are own life. Equally at home in the world of good filled with people because what a good library books and bad politics, Brooklyn-born rappers offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor and the work of Swiss novelists, she is by turns public space in which you do not have to buy wry, heartfelt, indignant, and incisive—and never anything in order to stay.” What will we tell our any less than perfect company. This is literary granddaughters about our collective failure to journalism at its zenith.

ZADIE SMITH is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW, and Swing Time, as well as a collection of essays, Changing My Mind. © Dominique Nabokov © Dominique POLITICAL TRIBES AMY CHUA

isbn: 9780399562853 price: $28.00 on sale: 2/20/2018 POLITICAL TRIBES AMY CHUA

From the bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua, a bold new look at how longstanding false assumptions about group behavior have been the undoing of America’s best laid plans, particularly in our foreign policy

We all want—no, are compelled—to be part of Political leaders and commentators alike refer the group. Sports teams, churches, companies, to the “black vote,” the “Evangelical vote,” the nations, races—some groups we belong to “non-college-educated white male vote,” “the voluntarily, others we find ourselves enrolled suburban white female vote,” and so on. Despite in at birth. These groups shape our identities. our constitutional commitments to individual Indeed, in some parts of the world, people kill liberty and equality, we have always been intensely and die for their group. But where Americans see group conscious as a nation, from our original sin divisions of ideas—capitalism vs. communism, of slavery to Dred Scott to the Chinese Exclusion democracy vs. authoritarianism, the “Free World” Act to Jim Crow. Given how political mobilization vs. the “Axis of Evil”—others see older and deeper is characteristically organized around group-based group identities, not national or ideological movements that increasingly reject universalist but ethnic, religious, sectarian, and tribal. Time rhetoric, should we be so surprised by the and time again this tendency has undermined disturbing recent rise in anti-immigrant, anti- American foreign policy. In the Vietnam War, Muslim, and racist rhetoric? an inability to apprehend the importance of In characteristically persuasive style, Amy Vietnamese nationalism, and an insistence on Chua explodes this most American of paradoxes: seeing the conflict through the lens of the Cold how can we be so group blind abroad and War, brought America to its knees. Several decades yet so acutely group conscious at home? She later, American leadership badly misapprehended argues forcefully that we need to be far more the significance of Pashtun identity and loyalty in knowledgeable and strategic about ethnic, Afghanistan. In Iraq, we failed to take stock of the religious, and tribal identity in our foreign policy, potential for violence between Sunnis and Shias. and far more unified at home. Enough false It’s time to cure ourselves of this myopic one-size- slogans of unity, which are just another form of fits-all view of group behavior in our foreign policy. divisiveness. It is time for a more difficult unity that But just as America has been willfully blind acknowledges the reality of group differences and to the significance of group behavior abroad, we fights the deep inequities that divide us. have remained intractably in thrall to it at home.

AMY CHUA is the John M. Duff Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She is a noted expert in the fields of international business, ethnic conflict, and globalization, and the author of the bestselling titles World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability, Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance-and Why They

© Peter Mahakan Fall, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, and her most recent book, The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America, co-written with Jed Rubenfeld. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with her husband and two daughters. ASTRAL WEEKS RYAN H. WALSH

isbn: 9780735221345 price: $27.00 on sale: 3/6/2018 ASTRAL WEEKS RYAN H. WALSH

A mind-expanding dive into a lost chapter of 1968, featuring the famous and forgotten: Van Morrison, folkie-turned-cult-leader Mel Lyman, Timothy Leary, James Brown, and many more

Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks is an iconic rock album believed he was the reincarnation of a scientist shrouded in legend, a masterpiece that has touched from Atlantis. Most penetratingly powerful of all generations of listeners and influenced everyone is Mel Lyman, the folk-music star who decided he from Bruce Springsteen to Martin Scorsese. In his was God, then controlled the lives of his many first book, acclaimed rock musician and journalist followers via acid, astrology, and an underground Ryan H. Walsh unearths the album’s fascinating newspaper called Avatar. backstory—along with the untold secrets of the A mesmerizing group of boldface names pops time and place that birthed it: Boston 1968. to life in Astral Weeks: James Brown quells tensions On the 50th anniversary of that tumultuous the night after Martin Luther King is assassinated; year, Walsh’s book follows a criss-crossing cast the real-life crimes of the Boston Strangler come of musicians and visionaries, artists and “hippie to the movie screen via Tony Curtis; Howard entrepreneurs,” from a young Tufts English Zinn testifies for Avatar in the courtroom. From professor who walks into a job as a host for TV’s life-changing concerts and chilling crimes, to acid wildest show (one episode required two sets, each experiments and hippie entrepreneurs, Astral tuned to a different channel) to the mystically Weeks is the secret, wild history of a unique time inclined owner of radio station WBCN, who and place.

RYAN H. WALSH is a musician and journalist. His culture writing has appeared in the Boston Globe, Vice, and Boston Magazine. He was a finalist for the Missouri School of Journalism’s City and Regional Magazine Award for his feature on Van Morrison’s year in Boston, from which this book developed. His rock band Hallelujah the Hills has won praise from Rolling Stone and Pitchfork; collaborated on a song with author Jonathan Lethem; and toured the U.S. extensively over their 10-year existence. The band won a Boston Music Award for Best Rock Artist, and Walsh has twice won the award for Best Video Direction. He lives in Boston with his wife, the acclaimed singer-songwriter Marissa Nadler. A TOKYO ROMANCE IAN BURUMA

isbn: 9781101981412 price: $26.00 on sale: 3/6/2018 A TOKYO ROMANCE IAN BURUMA

A classic memoir of self-invention in a strange land: Ian Buruma’s unflinching account of his amazing journey into the heart of Tokyo’s underground culture as a young man in the 1970’s

When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo in 1975, the past century. History remained in fragments: Japan was little more than an idea in his mind, the shapes of wounded World War Two veterans a fantasy of a distant land. A sensitive misfit in in white kimonos, murky old bars that Mishima the world of his upper middleclass youth, what had cruised in, and the narrow alleys where street he longed for wasn’t so much the exotic as the girls had once flitted. Buruma’s Tokyo, though, raw, unfiltered humanity he had experienced in was a city engaged in a radical transformation. Japanese theater performances and films, witnessed And through his adventures in the world of avant in Amsterdam and Paris. One particular theater garde theater, his encounters with carnival acts, troupe, directed by a poet of runaways, outsiders, fashion photographers, and moments on-set with and eccentrics, was especially alluring, more than Akira Kurosawa, Buruma underwent a radical a little frightening, and completely unforgettable. transformation of his own. For an outsider, If Tokyo was anything like his plays, Buruma knew unattached to the cultural burdens placed on the that he had to join the circus as soon as possible. Japanese, this was a place to be truly free. Tokyo was an astonishment. Callow and A Tokyo Romance is a portrait of a young artist unformed, Buruma found a feverish and surreal and the fantastical city that shaped him. With his metropolis where nothing was understated, and signature acuity, Ian Buruma brilliantly captures everything shouted for attention—neon lights, the historical tensions between east and west, the crimson lanterns, Japanese pop, advertising clash of conflicting cultures, and the dilemma of jingles, cabarets, and PA systems. He encountered the gaijin in Japanese society, constantly free, yet a city in the midst of an economic boom where always on the outside. The result is a timeless story everything seemed new, aside from the isolated about the desire to transgress boundaries: cultural, temple or shrine that had survived the firestorms artistic, and sexual. and earthquakes that had levelled the city during

IAN BURUMA is editor of The New York Review of Books. His previous books include Their Promised Land, Year Zero, The China Lover, Murder in Amsterdam, Occidentalism, God’s Dust, Behind the Mask, The Wages of Guilt, Bad Elements, and Taming the Gods. GETTING TO US SETH DAVIS

isbn: 9780735222724 price: $28.00 on sale: 3/6/2018 GETTING TO US SETH DAVIS

From the acclaimed CBS Sports commentator and author of the definitive biography of John Wooden: In Search of Excellence for coaching

What makes a coach great? How do great coaches get at the fundamental ingredients of greatness in turn a collection of individuals into a coherent the coaching sphere. There’s no single right way, “us”? Seth Davis, one of the keenest minds in of course—part of the great value of the book is sports journalism, has been thinking about that Seth’s distillation of what he has learned down question for twenty-five years. It’s one of the things into types of greatness in coaching, and what sort that drove him to write the definitive biography of leadership thrives in one kind of environment of college basketball’s greatest coach, John Wooden, but not others. Some coaches have thrived at the Wooden: A Coach’s Life. But John Wooden coached college level but not in the pros. Why? What’s the a long time ago. The world has changed, and difference? Some coaches are stern taskmasters, coaching has too, tremendously. Seth Davis others are warm and cuddly; some are brilliant decided to embark on a proper investigation, to get strategists but less emotionally connected with to the root of the answer to the question. their players, and with others it’s vice versa. In In Getting to Us, Davis probes and prods the best Getting To Us, we come to feel a deep connection of the best from the landscape of active coaches with the most successful and iconic coaches in all of football and basketball, college and pro—from of sports—big winners, and big character, whose Urban Meyer, Dabo Swinney, and Jim Harbaugh stories offer much in the way of both fascination to Mike Krzyzewski, Tom Izzo, Jim Boeheim, Brad and edification. Stevens, Geno Auriemma, and Doc Rivers—to

SETH DAVIS is the author of the New York Times bestsellers When March Went Mad: The Game That Transformed Basketball and Wooden: A Coach’s Life. In 1995, he joined the staff ofSports Illustrated, where he is currently a senior writer. He is also an on-air studio analyst for CBS Sports and CBS Sports Network during coverage of college basketball and the NCAA tournament, and the host of The Seth Davis Show on Campus Insiders. A graduate of Duke University, he lives with his family in Los Angeles. DANGEROUS MYSTIC JOEL HARRINGTON

isbn: 9781101981566 price: $30.00 on sale: 3/20/2018 DANGEROUS MYSTIC JOEL HARRINGTON

Life and times of the 14th century German theologian Meister Eckhart, whose theory of a personal path to the divine inspired thinkers from Jean Paul Sartre to Thomas Merton, and most recently, Eckhart Tolle.

Meister Eckhart was a medieval Christian mystic theologians of his day, but he was also a man of whose wisdom powerfully appeals to seekers the world who had worked as an administrator seven centuries after his death. In the modern for his religious order and taught for years at era, Eckhart’s writings have struck a chord with the University of Paris. His personal path from thinkers as diverse as Heidegger, Merton, Sartre, conventional friar to professor to lay preacher John Paul II, and the current Dalai Lama. He is the culminated in a spiritual philosophy that inspiration for the bestselling New Age author combined the teachings of an array of pagan and Eckhart Tolle’s pen name, and his fourteenth- Christian writers, as well as Muslim and Jewish century quotes have become an online sensation. philosophers. His revolutionary decision to take Today a variety of Christians, as well as many Zen his approach to the common people garnered him Buddhists, Sufi Muslims, Jewish Cabbalists, and many enthusiastic followers as well as powerful various spiritual seekers, all claim Eckhart as their enemies. After Eckhart’s death and papal censure, own. Meister Eckhart preached a personal, internal many religious women and clerical supporters, path to God at a time when the Church could not known as the Friends of God, kept his legacy alive have been more hierarchical and ritualistic. Then through the centuries, albeit underground until and now, Eckhart’s revolutionary method of the master’s dramatic rediscovery by modern direct access to ultimate reality offers a profoundly Protestants and Catholics. subjective approach that is at once intuitive and Dangerous Mystic grounds Meister Eckhart in a pragmatic, philosophical yet non-rational, and, world that is simultaneously familiar and alien. In above all, universally accessible. This “dangerous the midst of this medieval society, a few decades mystic’s” teachings challenge the very nature before the Black Death, Eckhart boldly preached of religion, yet the man himself never directly to captivated crowds a timeless method, a “wayless challenged the Church. way,” of directly experiencing the divine. Eckhart was one of the most learned

JOEL F. HARRINGTON is a professor of history at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of The Faithful Executioner, The Unwanted Child, and A Cloud of Witnesses. MELTDOWN CHRIS CLEARFIELD & ANDRÁS TILCSIK

isbn: 9780735222632 price: $28.00 on sale: 3/20/2018 MELTDOWN CHRIS CLEARFIELD & ANDRÁS TILCSIK

A groundbreaking take on how complexity causes failure in all kinds of modern systems—from social media to air travel—this practical and entertaining book reveals how we can prevent meltdowns in business and life

A crash on the Washington, D.C. metro system. An conditions ripe for failure and why our brains and accidental overdose in a state-of-the-art hospital. teams can’t keep up. They highlight the paradox An overcooked holiday meal. At first glance, of progress: Though modern systems have given these disasters seem to have little in common. us new capabilities, they’ve become vulnerable to But surprising new research shows that all these surprising meltdowns—and even to corruption events—and the myriad failures that dominate and misconduct. headlines every day—share similar causes. By But Meltdown isn’t just about failure; it’s about understanding what lies behind these failures, we solutions—whether you’re managing a team can design better systems, make our teams more or the chaos of your family’s morning routine. productive, and transform how we make decisions It reveals why ugly designs make us safer, how a at work and at home. five-minute exercise can prevent billion-dollar Weaving together cutting-edge social catastrophes, why teams with fewer experts are science with riveting stories that take us from better at managing risk, and why diversity is one the frontlines of the Volkswagen scandal to of our best safeguards against failure. The result is backstage at the Oscars, and from deep beneath an eye-opening, empowering, and entirely original the Gulf of Mexico to the top of Mount Everest, book—one that will change the way you see our Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik explain how complex world and your own place in it. the increasing complexity of our systems creates

CHRIS CLEARFIELD is a principal at System Logic, a research and consulting firm that helps organizations manage the risk of catastrophic failure. He has written about catastrophic failure, technology, and finance for The Guardian, Forbes, Project Syndicate, the Harvard Kennedy School Review, Nautilus, the Harvard Business Review blog, and in a memo to the US House of Representatives.

ANDRÁS TILCSIK is an assistant professor of strategic management at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, where he developed and teaches the award-winning MBA course Catastrophic Failure in Organizations. He is also chief sociologist of the Creative Destruction Lab, one of the world’s fastest-growing startup accelerators. ON GRAND STRATEGY JOHN LEWIS GADDIS

isbn: 9781594203510 price: $26.00 on sale: 4/3/2018 ON GRAND STRATEGY JOHN LEWIS GADDIS

A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught at Yale for decades

For over 20 years, a select group of Yale that course into a wonderfully succinct, lucid and undergraduates has been admitted into the year- inspirational book, a view from the commanding long “Grand Strategy” seminar team-taught by heights of statesmanship across the landscape of John Lewis Gaddis and Paul Kennedy. Its purpose: world history from the ancient Greeks to Lincoln, to provide a grounding in strategic decision- and beyond. A thrilling experience for history making in the face of crisis to prepare future lovers and a necessary one for anyone serious about American leaders for important work. Now, John the art of leadership, On Grand Strategy is the very Lewis Gaddis has transposed the experience of definition of a master class.

JOHN LEWIS GADDIS is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History at Yale University. His previous books include The United States and the Origins of the Cold War; Strategies of Containment; The Long Peace; We Now Know; The Landscape of History; Surprise, Security, and the American Experience; and The Cold War: A New History. Professor Gaddis teaches courses on Cold War history, grand strategy, international studies, and biography; has won two Yale undergraduate teaching awards; was a 2005 recipient of the National Humanities Medal; and is the winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for George F. Kennan. UNTITLED MARK HALPERIN & JOHN HEILEMANN

isbn: 9780525522577 price: $30.00 on sale: 4/3/2018 UNTITLED MARK HALPERIN & JOHN HEILEMANN

The imperative, essential, and news-breaking account of the explosive 2016 presidential election, from the authors of the New York Times bestsellers Game Change and Double Down, with previously uncovered news, insight, and information that will forever change the way we understand the shocking outcome of November 8th.

Mark Halperin and John Heilemann once undercovered - questions still surrounding both again bring their deep and unique access and Clinton and Trump. Reporting on Ivanka, Jared unparalleled political know-how to the 2016 Kushner, and James Comey, from how Bill Clinton presidential election, going behind the scenes of screwed things up to what Trump really thinks the Republican and Democratic campaigns to about himself and his temperament, all amidst present the untold, compelling, and gripping story the FBI’s ongoing investigation into Russia and in full for the first time. Trump’s attempts - as president - to squash it, Examining the candidates and their campaigns Halperin and Heileman dig deep and provide us in the years, months, and days leading up the with never-before disclosed newsbreaks. Riveting, election, and reporting up to the minute through revelatory, and necessary, this unforgettable and present day with Trump now firmly in the White extraordinary account of the 2016 election and its House, Halperin and Heilemann give listeners aftermath is a must-listen for anyone and everyone complete access to the game changing moments as who played a part in the election. In sum, for all well as the looming, unexplored - and previously of us.

MARK HALPERIN is an author, senior political analyst for MSNBC and NBC News, and contributor and former co-managing editor of Bloomberg Politics. He is the co-author of Game Change and Double Down, and the co-host of the political documentary series The Circus. Halperin, who has covered eight presidential elections, received his B.A. from Harvard University and resides in New York City with Karen Avrich.

JOHN HEILEMANN is the National Affairs Analyst at NBC News and MSNBC. An award-winning journalist and author of Pride Before the Fall, he is a former staff writer forThe New Yorker, Wired, and The Economist. He is also the co-author of Game Change and Double Down, and the co-host of the political documentary series The Circus. He lives in Brooklyn. EMPIRE OF GUNS PRIYA SATIA

isbn: 9780735224322 price: $35.00 on sale: 4/10/2018 EMPIRE OF GUNS PRIYA SATIA

By a prize-winning young historian, an authoritative work that reframes the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of British empire, and emergence of industrial capitalism by presenting them as inextricable from the gun trade

We have long understood the Industrial Empire of Guns uses the story of Galton and the Revolution as a triumphant story of innovation gun trade, from Birmingham to the outermost and technology. Empire of Guns, a rich and ambitious edges of the British empire, to illuminate the new book by award-winning historian Priya Satia, nation’s emergence as a global superpower, the upends this conventional wisdom by placing war roots of the state’s role in economic development, and Britain’s prosperous gun trade at the heart of and the origins of our era’s debates about gun the Industrial Revolution and the state’s imperial control and the “military-industrial complex”— expansion. that thorny partnership of government, the Satia brings to life this bustling industrial economy, and the military. Through Satia’s eyes, society with the story of a scandal: Samuel Galton we acquire a radically new understanding of this of Birmingham, one of Britain’s most prominent critical historical moment and all that followed gunmakers, has been condemned by his fellow from it. Quakers, who argue that his profession violates Sweeping in its scope and entirely original in the society’s pacifist principles. In his fervent its approach, Empire of Guns is a masterful new work self-defense, Galton argues that the state’s heavy of history—a rigorous historical argument with a reliance on industry for all of its war needs means human story at its heart. that every member of the British industrial economy is implicated in Britain’s near-constant state of war.

PRIYA SATIA is a Professor of History at Stanford University. She is the author of Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain’s Covert Empire in the Middle East, and her writing has appeared in Slate, the Financial Times, The Nation, and the Huffington Post, among other publications. She received a MSc in Development Studies (Economics) at the London School of Economics and a PhD in History at the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in Stanford, California with her family. CAKE MAIRA KALMAN & BARBARA SCOTT-GOODMAN

isbn: 9781101981542 price: $25.00 on sale: 4/10/2018 CAKE MAIRA KALMAN & BARBARA SCOTT-GOODMAN

With great style, wit, and joy, Maira Kalman and Barbara Scott-Goodman celebrate their favorite dessert.

In Cake, renowned artist and author Maira Kalman illustrations, in her inimitable style, and Scott- and food writer Barbara Scott-Goodman bring Goodman’s mouthwatering recipes complement us a beautifully illustrated book dedicated to each other perfectly, making Cake a joyful their mutual love of cakes. Kalman’s enchanting whimsical celebration of a timeless dessert.

MAIRA KALMAN is an illustrator, author, and designer. She is the author of Beloved Dog, And the Pursuit of Happiness and The Principles of Uncertainty. She is the illustrator of Michael Pollan’s Food Rules and the bestselling edition of William Strunk and E. B. White’s The Elements of Style. Kalman’s work is shown at the Julie Saul Gallery in Manhattan.

BARBARA SCOTT-GOODMAN is an author, food writer, and designer. She is the author of The Beach House Cookbook, Wine Bites, and Brooklyn Bar Bites. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. D C-T! JOANA AVILLEZ & MOLLY YOUNG

isbn: 9780735223196 price: $20.00 on sale: 5/1/2018 D C-T! JOANA AVILLEZ & MOLLY YOUNG

A joy-inducing illustrated book about New York City in the ingenious style of William Steig’s classic CDB!

Just as there are few cities as storied and replete • “R U I?” (Are you high?) Asks the clerk at with life as New York City, there are few illustrators a bodega to the blissed out shopper or writers who have charmed as many generations Brought to life in Avillez’s distinctively as William Steig. To Molly Young and Joana Avillez, ebullient and droll style are precocious pets and a connection between the two seemed obvious, and pet-owners, iconic architecture, and startlingly so D C-T! (“The City!”) was born. intrepid anthropomorphic rats. At once Using a playful phonetic language first recognizable, and imagined like never before, are invented by Steig in his now classic 1968 book the full complement of surprising, intoxicating, CDB!—but which in today’s world of text and not-always-entirely-welcome sights, sounds, message and internet shorthand feels uncannily and smells of New York City. contemporary—Young and Avillez tell a different Full of wit, romance, and sheer delight, story on each page of this collection of illustrations D C-T! is both an affectionate portrait of the visual stuffed to brim with humor and cleverness: cornucopia that is New York City and a gracious • “S L-I-F!” (It’s alive!) A boy shouts gleefully love letter to the great William Steig, sure to at a pile of rubbish seething with rats enchant readers young and old alike just as his • “I M B-Z” (I’m busy) Declares the phone- work has for half a century. wielding businesswoman to the would-be mugger

MOLLY YOUNG is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine. She has written features for GQ, Elle, New York magazine, n+1 and other publications, and has authored columns for the New York Times Book Review and the New York Times. She has also published crossword puzzles in the New York Times.

JOANA AVILLEZ is an illustrator from and still living in New York. Her drawings and illustrated stories have appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, New York magazine, Zeit Magazin, Apartamento, and many other places. She illustrated Lena