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Death in a Shallow Pond: A Philosopher, A Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need by David Edmonds

David Edmonds

Tomorrow (8 Mar) at 11:00 am GMT, see @davidedmonds100.bsky.social, author of Death in a Shallow Pond, at @jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk! He'll discuss Peter Singer’s "drowning child" thought experiment and how it reshaped debates on global poverty.

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Embracing Addiction What if we didn’t shame others and ourselves for our dependencies? And, instead of trying to banish it, might we embrace addiction as a binding force, profoundly worthy of our devotion?

In this vivid essay, anthropologist Elizabeth F. S. Roberts invites you into the courtyards of Mexico City, where families drink, joke, and grieve together—and where “addiction” and “vice” mean something very different from what most Americans assume.

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Roxanne L. Euben speaks with Good Authority about her new book, Driven to Their Knees: Humiliation in Contemporary Politics. Read the full interview here

Three Roads Back by Robert D. Richardson and On the Couch edited by Andrew Blauner are featured in @literaryhub.bsky.social’s roundup of new March paperbacks! Both these editions are available now. Get your copy today!

The Wake of HMS Challenger: How a Legendary Victorian Voyage Tells the Story of Our Oceans' Decline by Gillen D’Arcy Wood

Gillen D’Arcy Wood

Next week, March 12 at 7:00 pm EDT, Smithsonian Associates hosts a virtual event with Gillen D'Arcy Wood, author of The Wake of HMS Challenger! Tune in to hear about this legendary scientific odyssey and why, 150 years later, its legacy looms larger than ever.

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For more about Richardson's book, take a listen to @jackewilson.bsky.social's conversation with author Megan Marshall who wrote the forward to this book.
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Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives by Robert D. Richardson, with a foreword by Megan Marshall

A final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, & William James forged resilience from devastating loss, changing the course of American thought.

Robert D. Richardson's Three Roads Back is now available in #paperback.

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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement by Benjamin Nathans

Benjamin Nathans

Next week, Mar 11 at 12:00 pm EDT, hear Benjamin Nathans discuss his Pulitzer Prize–winning book, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause! At FIU's School of International and Public Affairs, he will explore his definitive history of Soviet dissidents.

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In Praise of Addiction: Or How We Can Learn to Love Dependency in a Damaged World by Elizabeth F. S. Roberts

Elizabeth F. S. Roberts

Clio's Books welcomes Elizabeth F. S. Roberts tomorrow (March 7th) at 4:00 pm PST, for a discussion of her new book, In Praise of Addiction. With Timothy Don, she will discuss the ideas and experiences that inform her transformative new way of understanding addiction.

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India’s tech sovereignty is built on digital dependence In his new book, “Computing in the Age of Decolonization: India’s Lost Technological Revolution,” researcher Dwaipayan Banerjee argues that a focus on technical solutions has made the country…

Read an excerpt of Dwaipayan Banerjee's Computing in the Age of Decolonization: India’s Lost Technological Revolution in @restofworld.org:

Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics by Julia Sonnevend

The utilization—and weaponization—of charm in contemporary global politics.

Charm by Julia Sonnevend is now available in #paperback, with a new preface by the author!

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Outsider Animals, read by author Marlene Zuk, has been named one of Spotify's Editor's Picks for March! 🎉 The audio version of this incredible work is available March 17th.

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Selections available for $2.99/£2.99 wherever you buy #ebooks and #audiobooks—updated each month. 🎧📚

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What If Addiction is Not a Brain Disease? CBC Listen Media Player

Listen: Hanna Pickard, author of What Would You Do Alone in a Cage with Nothing but Cocaine?, speaks with CBC Radio's Ideas about relocating addiction away from the traditional brain disease model:

Financial Insecurity, Not Immigration, Is Driving Populist Politics Lorenza Antonucci argues that politicians who confront the middle-class roots of public discontent will win back voters’ trust.

Financial Insecurity, Not Immigration, Is Driving Populist Politics by Lorenza Antonucci @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/lTX1BwN?refe... - then check out Lorenza's @princetonupress.bsky.social book Insecurity Politics, to learn more press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

A photograph of Dunluce Castle that I took from the roadside years ago with the book cover for Seekers of Wonder: Women Writing Folk & Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century Italy and Ireland by Elena Emma Sottilotta. It features an illustration of a woman with stars and words crowning her head along with a series of weird creatures, clovers, frogs, acorn, spindle, and couldron.

Love that @princetonupress.bsky.social highlighted this book in their women's history month email because I would've never known about it & it's the most me book ever.

I've been wanting to get back into researching folklore of Ireland and Italy, so wow thank you. I borrowed a copy from the library.

The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism by Durba Mitra. How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present.

In The Future That Was, @durba.bsky.social offers a pathbreaking account of how Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism & imagine a future freer than our present.

Out March 17 (12 May UK pub):
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The Minneapolis Reckoning: Race, Violence, and the Politics of Policing in America by Michelle S. Phelps

Michelle S. Phelps

Congrats to @michellesphelps.bsky.social, whose book The Minneapolis Reckoning won the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Outstanding Book Award. This urgent work describes how Minneapolis arrived at the brink of police abolition and why reform is so difficult.

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Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism by Cynthia Miller-Idriss

Cynthia Miller-Idriss

Munich folks, don’t miss @milleridriss.bsky.social at @amerikahaus.de later this month, 19 March at 7:00 pm CET! She will discuss her incredible book, Man Up, and the explosion of misogyny driving a surge of mass and far-right violence at this free, hybrid event.

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Earth and Life: A Four Billion Year Conversation by Andrew H. Knoll

From the world-renowned geobiologist & bestselling author of A Brief History of Earth, the epic story of a planetary conversation four billion years in the making.

Earth and Life by Andrew H. Knoll arrives 17 March!

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#urbanism #transitadvocacy #books | Raymond Berger If you’ve ever thought, “My city needs better transportation… but how do I actually make that happen?” 🚍 The book If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight by Carter Lavin is one of the most practical,...

"This is your playbook for turning your vision into reality" --- a very nice review of my book! Check out the review
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And check out the book at your local library or get it from @islandpress.bsky.social & @princetonupress.bsky.social

CLM Insights Interview with Fiona S. Cunningham | China Leadership Monitor Fiona S. Cunningham. Under the Nuclear Shadow: China’s Information-Age Weapons in International Security (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics). Princeton University Press, January…

China Leadership Monitor interviews @fiona-cunningham.bsky.social, author of Under the Nuclear Shadow: China’s Information-Age Weapons in International Security. Check it out here:

Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years by Paula Fredriksen

Now in #paperback, Paula Fredriksen's Ancient Christianities traces how, over the course of five centuries, one particular god and one particular Christianity came to dominate late Roman imperial politics and piety.

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The celebrated art historian and Michelangelo expert, William E. Wallace’s elegant double biography attempts to consider the two artists, who probably met only twice, not as polar opposites, but rounded creative beings in active dialogue.

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Ian Stewart on Reaching for the Extreme Many of the deepest and most important areas of mathematics have emerged from questions about extremes—the shortest path between two points on a curved surface, the smallest area spanning a wire, or t...

In this edition of Ideas, bestselling author Ian Stewart, one of the world’s most popular writers on mathematics, presents a dazzling, wide-ranging tour of math’s outer limits.

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Michelangelo and Titian by William E. Wallace Los Angeles police are called to an opening party at a former 99 Cents Only Store on Wilshire Boulevard after neighbors complain of noise, tagging.

"It may not have been a heated rivalry, but author William E. Wallace makes the case that the two great Renaissance artists drove each other to excel.” @jessicagelt.bsky.social recommends Michelangelo and Titian in this week's @latimes.com!

The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life by Sophia Rosenfeld

Sophia Rosenfeld

Many congratulations to Sophia Rosenfeld, whose book The Age of Choice has won @standrewsiih.bsky.social's István Hont Book Prize! Her acclaimed work is a sweeping history of the rise of personal choice in the modern world and how it became equated with freedom.

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On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud, edited by Andrew Blauner

Now available in #paperback, On the Couch is a collection of colorful and candid essays and other pieces about Sigmund Freud and his legacy today, featuring twenty-five leading writers.

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A Remarkable New Type of Field Guide Back in May of 2025, whilst attending The Biggest Week in American Birding, Dr. Robert Kirk, Princeton University Press' Publisher of the Press' Princeton Field Guides and Natural History categories, ...

"Habitats of the World: A Field Guide for Birders, Naturalists, and Ecologists" (@princetonupress.bsky.social) is both a remarkably new type of field guide as well as a gateway to a truly innovative series of books that everyone going afield to observe and study the natural world should have.

Jefferson on Race: A Reader, edited by Annette Gordon-Reed, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award

Jefferson on Race, edited by @agordonreed.bsky.social, is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand Thomas Jefferson’s conflicted attitudes—& the impact of race & slavery on American history.

Out March 31 (26 May UK pub).

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