In New York at War, historian Steven H. Jaffe offers an alternative history of New York City—arguably the most powerful and yet also the most vulnerable city on earth, and a place whose landscape, culture, and inhabitants have been shaped by violence near and far.

Acclaimed military historian John Keegan’s anthology of war writing from 25 centuries of battle
In The Book of War, John Keegan marshals a formidable host of war writings to chronicle the evolution of Western warfare through the voice of the most eloquent participants—from Thucydides’ classic account of ancient Greek phalanx warfare to a blow-by-blow description of ground fighting against the Iraqi troops in Kuwait during the Gulf War. Keegan gathers more than eighty selections, including Caesar’s Commentaries on the Roman invasion of Britain; the French Knight Jehan de Wavrin at the battle of Agincourt; Davy Crockett in the war against the Creek; Wellington’s dispatch on Waterloo; Hemingway after Caporetto; and Ernie Pyle at Normandy.

An endlessly fascinating, beautifully designed survey of time—how long things take, how long things last, and how we spend our days
Our relationship to time is complex and paradoxical: Time stands still. Time also flies. Tomorrow is another day. Yet there's no time like the present. We want to do more in less time, but wish we could slow the clock. And despite all our time-saving devices—iPhones, DVRs, high-speed trains—Americans feel that they have less leisure time than ever.

Olivastro's combination of history and puzzles-to-solve may intimidate or simply put off some readers who are strictly of the "let's play" school. Others will be enthralled to learn of the antiquity of some of today's still-popular numeric puzzles. Along the way, the author delivers some fascinating information, such as the origin of the word stockholder and of a magic square devised by Benjamin Franklin. Here are some great ideas for enlivening a math classroom or blending math with history or social studies. Denise Perry Donavin

In this book, leading evolutionary biologists and science historians reflect on and commemorate the Darwinian Revolution. They canvass modern research approaches and current scientific thought on each of the three main categories of selection (natural, artificial, and sexual) that Darwin addressed during his career.

Only the genius of Mozart could bring together a group as eclectic as Wendy Wasserstein, Renoir, Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, Virginia Woolf, Maurice Sendak--and dozens more. In collecting this passionate testimony--as well as words from Wolfgang Amadeus himself--Mozartina is a glorious celebration of the music and life of Mozart taken from two centuries of notes, quotes, and anecdotes.

Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing and recovering their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed, "this time is different" claiming that the old rules of valuation no longer apply and that the new situation bears little similarity to past disasters. With this breakthrough study, leading economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff definitively prove them wrong. Covering sixty-six countries across five continents, This Time Is Different presents a comprehensive look at the varieties of financial crises, and guides us through eight astonishing centuries of government defaults, banking panics, and inflationary spikes from medieval currency debasements to today's subprime catastrophe.

Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx.

Five Centuries of Art Collecting in Dresden

This gorgeously illustrated volume began as notes on the collection of cookbooks and culinary images gathered by renowned cookbook author Anne Willan and her husband Mark Cherniavsky.

This book has three basic purposes: 1) to provide an overview of the history of philosophy in the West; 2) to relate philosophical ideas and movements to their historical background and to the cultural history of their time; and 3) to trace the changing conception of the definition, the function, and the task of philosophy.