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Bernoulli’s Fallacy

Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science Aubrey Clayton

Aubrey Clayton traces the history of the flaw that underlies modern statistics, beginning with the seventeenth-century mathematician Jacob Bernoulli and winding through gambling, astronomy, and genetics. Ranging across math, philosophy, and culture, Bernoulli’s Fallacy explains why something has gone wrong with how we use data—and how to fix it.

$34.95 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-19994-0 August 2021 368 pages 12 illus. The Way Out

How to Overcome Toxic Polarization Peter T. Coleman

The social psychologist Peter T. Coleman explores how conflict resolution and complexity science provide guidance for dealing with seemingly intractable political differences. The Way Out is a vital and timely guide to breaking free from the cycle of mutual contempt in order to better our lives, relationships, and country.

$27.95 / £22.00 cloth 978-0-231-19740-3 2021 296 pages 38 illus.

Why Trust Matters

An Economist’s Guide to the Ties That Bind Us Benjamin Ho

Benjamin Ho reveals the surprising importance of trust to how we understand our day-to-day economic lives. Starting with the earliest societies and proceeding through the evolution of the modern economy, he explores its role across an astonishing range of institutions and practices.

$35.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-18960-6 2021 336 pages 9 illus. World as Family

A Journey of Multi-Rooted Belongings Vishakha N. Desai

Vishakha N. Desai uses her life experiences to explore the significance of living globally and its urgency for our current moment. She reframes the idea of what it means to be global, considering how to lead a life of multiple belongings without losing local and national affinities.

$26.00 / £22.00 cloth 978-0-231-19598-0 2021 296 pages 60 illus.

A Revolution in Three Acts

The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge David Hajdu and John Carey Foreword by Michele Wallace

A Revolution in Three Acts explores how three vaudeville stars defied the standards of their time to change how their audiences thought about what it meant to be American, to be Black, to be a woman or a man. The writer David Hajdu and the artist John Carey collaborate in this work of graphic nonfiction.

$19.95 / £14.99 cloth 978-0-231-19182-1 September 2021 176 pages Take Back What the Devil Stole

An African American Prophet’s Encounters in the Spirit World Onaje X. O. Woodbine

Ms. Donna Haskins is an African American woman who wrestles with structural inequity in the streets of Boston by inhabiting an alternate dimension she refers to as the “spirit realm.” Both ethnographic and personal, Onaje X. O. Woodbine’s portrait of her spiritual life sheds new light on the lived religion of the dispossessed.

$30.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-19716-8 2021 272 pages 10 illus.

There Is Life After the Nobel Prize

Eric R. Kandel

Neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel recounts his remarkable career since receiving the Nobel Prize in 2000. He takes readers through his lab’s scientific advances as well as his efforts to promote public understanding of science and to put brain science and art into conversation.

$19.95 / £14.99 cloth 978-0-231-20014-1 January 2022 112 pages 11 illus. Great Minds Don’t Think Alike

Debates on Consciousness, Reality, Intelligence, Faith, Time, AI, Immortality, and the Human Edited and with commentary by Marcelo Gleiser

Leading scientists, philosophers, historians, and public intellectuals debate the big questions. These public dialogues model constructive engagement between the sciences and the humanities—and show why intellectual cooperation is necessary to shape our collective future.

$19.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-20411-8 $80.00 / £66.00 cloth 978-0-231-20410-1 January 2022 264 pages