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The Art of War Visualized: The Sun Tzu Classic in Charts and Graphs

Jessica Hagy · Workman Publishing Company

Its the perfect meeting of minds. One, a general whose epigrammatic lessons on strategy offer timeless insight and wisdom. And the other, a visual thinker whose succinct diagrams and charts give readers a fresh way of looking at lifes challenges and opportunities. A Bronze AgeInformation...
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How We Fight: Ethics in War

Helen Frowe · Oxford University Press; 1 edition

How We Fight: Ethics in War presents a substantial body of new work by some of the leading philosophers of war. The ten essays cover a range of topics concerned with both jus ad bellum (the morality of going to war) and jus in bello (the morality of fighting in war). Alongside explorations...
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The Manhattan Project: A Theory of a City

David Kishik · Stanford University Press

In The Manhattan Project, David Kishik dares to imagine a Walter Benjamin who did not commit suicide in 1940, but managed instead to escape the Nazis to begin a long, solitary life in New York. During his anonymous, posthumous existence, while he was haunting and haunted by his new city,...
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Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic

Matthew Stewart · W. W. Norton & Company

Longlisted for the National Book Award. Where did the ideas come from that became the cornerstone of American democracy? Not only the erudite Thomas Jefferson, the wily and elusive Ben Franklin, and the underappreciated Thomas Paine, but also Ethan Allen, the hero of the Green Mountain...
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