Dangerous Earth

What We Wish We Knew about

Volcanoes, Hurricanes, Climate
Change, Earthquakes, and More

Ellen Prager

“A skillful example of a user-friendly
scientifi c treatise that should appeal to
readers interested in Earth science.”

—Library Journal
Cloth $25.

The Daily Henry

David Thoreau

A Year of Quotes from the Man
Who Lived in Season

Henry David Thoreau

Edited and with a Foreword by Laura Dassow Walls

Th oreau saw in the kernel of each day
an earth enchanted, one he honed into

sentences tuned with an artist’s eye and
a musician’s ear. Th e Daily Henry David
Th oreau allows us to discover his world.
Paper $12.

Quantum Legacies

Dispatches from an

Uncertain World

David Kaiser

With a Foreword by Alan Lightman

“Kaiser—writing in prose that sometimes

soars, often intrigues, and always in-
forms—gives us a remarkable set of
vignettes about major developments in

physics and cosmology of the past century.”
—Kip Th orne, 2017 Nobel Laureate in

Physics
Cloth $26.

Geschlecht III

Sex, Race, Nation, Humanity

Jacques Derrida

Edited by Geoff rey Bennington, Katie Chenoweth,
and Rodrigo Th erezo

Translated by Katie Chenoweth and Rodrigo Th erezo

“Geschlecht III is a masterclass in read-
ing, in translating, and in reading and

translating as a practice of philosophical
thinking.”—Samir Haddad, author of
Derrida and the Inheritance of Democracy
Cloth $27.

The Toddler in Chief

What Donald Trump Teaches Us

about the Modern Presidency

Daniel W. Drezner

“It’s no secret that much of Trump’s staff

thinks he’s ill-informed, impulsive, even

dangerous. Drezner has been tweeting

quotes from Trump staff ers talking

about the president as if he is a toddler

for years.”—Vox

Paper $15.

The Daily

Thomas Paine

A Year of Common-Sense Quotes

for a Nonsensical Age

Thomas Paine

Edited and with a Foreword by Edward G. Gray

Th omas Paine was the spark that ignited

the American Revolution. He was a

verbal bomb-thrower, a rationalist, and a

rebel. Today, we are living in times that,

as Paine said, “try men’s souls.” If you’re

seeking to understand the political

world we live in, where better to look

than Paine?

Paper $12.

The Streets of Europe

The Sights, Sounds, and Smells

That Shaped Its Great Cities

Brian Ladd

“In Ladd’s dazzlingly kaleidoscopic

overview of city life, city living, and city

dying, the streets of the great European

cities in the eighteenth and nineteenth

centuries spring to life once more, in

all their richness, plenitude, fi lth, and

glory.”—Judith Flanders, author of

Th e Victorian City

Cloth $30.

Now in Paperback

Ghosts in the

Schoolyard

Racism and School Closings on

Chicago’s South Side

Eve L. Ewing

“Th is superbly written and researched

account is at once poignant and deeply

troubling, blending the personal and the

academic in a way that makes the heavy

subject matter accessible.”—Juan Vidal,

NPR, Best Books of 2018

Paper $16.

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