New Books Network

Robert Gellately, “Stalin’s Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War”

Prasannan Parthasarathi, “Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600-1850″

Helen Longino, “Studying Human Behavior: How Scientists Investigate Aggression & Sexuality”

Tadeusz Zawidzki, “Mindshaping: A New Framework for Understanding Human Social Cognition”

Peter Savodnik, “The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union”

Leslie Irvine, “My Dog Always Eats First: Homeless People and their Animals”

Steven Shaviro, “The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism”

danah boyd, “It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens”

Filip Slaveski, “The Soviet Occupation of Germany: Hunger, Mass Violence and the Struggle for Peace, 1945–1947″

Barry Rubin and Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, “Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East”