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"This book traces the history of ten genocides of the past 500 years. From the Greek 'genos': race or tribe + Latin 'cide': killing."
An image of the cover of Emile Chabal's "The Age of Hobsbawm," a black-and-white image of a spectacled Eric Hobsbawm smiling and looking off into the distance on the cover. Dark green background.
The cover for Michael Pollack's Sidewalk Nation on a white background. The cover is white with blue text and red illustrations of sidewalks and figures walking along the sidewalks in a winding direction.
A photo of Marcus Willaschek's Kant: A Revolution in Thinking on a patch of sun-dappled grass and clovers. The cover is modern and off-white and features an illustration of Immanuel Kant.
A stack of fourteen books ahead of a plain white background on a plain table. They're all history books. Titles include "The Memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman," "The Radical Spanish Empire," and "Yuppies."
A copy of Paul Celan: A Life by Anna Arno and the text "June 2026." The book's cover features a black and white photo of Celan holding his face in his palm contemplatively. Behind the title, a swoosh of gold glitter. The background is black with gold glitter.
Historian Peter Mauch holds a sign that reads "REDDIT AMA Peter Mauch, Tuesday 17 March, 3 PM EDT"
Cover of the book "The Nature of Nurture" by Jay Belsky. The title appears in colorful blocks on a black background, with the subtitle "Rethinking Why and How Childhood Adversity Shapes Development" and the author's name below.
A stack of nine books. Titles include: "We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For" by Adrian Russell, "Being Property Once Myself" by Joshua Bennett, "The Legacy of Slavery at Harvard," "Justice Deferred" by Orville Vernon Burton and Armand Derfner, "Fugitive Pedagogy" by Jarvis R. Givens, "Who's Black and Why?" edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Andrew S. Curran, "Dreaming in Black and White" by Lucy Caplan, "Traveling Black" by Mia Bay, and "The Unseen Truth" by Sarah Lewis. The books are stacked on a white surface.
The image shows the book cover of "The Presidential Pardon" by Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash. The cover features an illustration of an eagle holding a pen against a red background. The subtitle reads "The Short Clause with a Long, Troubled History."
Book cover titled "A World of Resistance: India and the Global Antibiotic Crisis" by Assa Doron & Alex Broom. The design features a black and white image of a landscape with an overlay of orange abstract patterns.
A photo of Viet Thanh Nguyen's book To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other on a gradient blue background. Atop it is a medallion that reads National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist.
A photo of Jennifer R. Vail's Friction: A Biography, which features a dynamic match about to strike on its cover. In the background, a unqiue, corrugated material.
A stack of books featuring Eddie S. Glaude's We Are The Leaders We Have Been Looking For, Violence Over the Land by Blackhawk, Cash on the Block by Beryl Satter, Inherited Inequality by Christina J. Cross, What is Free Speech? by Fara Dabhoiwala, Traveling Black by Mia Bay, and Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope by Brandon M. Terry
A stack of books with their spines facing forward, horizontally, on an all-white background and foreground. The books include Tojo by Peter Mauch, The Nature of Nurture by Jay Belsky, Marked by Time by Robert J. Sampson, The First Fascist by Sergio Luzzatto, The Rise and Fall of Rational Control by Harvey C. Mansfield, Friction by Jennifer R. Vail, and The Presidential Pardon by Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash.
A photo of the book The Presidential Pardon: The Short Clause with a Long, Troubled History by Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash
Winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics, Philippe Aghion
"Who can speak, who gets heard, and who makes the rules about what one can say is always about power and authority." – Fara Dabhoiwala, What Is Free Speech?
A copy of What Is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea by Fara Dabhoiwala against a gray background
A hand holds a copy of Marcus Willaschek's Kant: A Revolution in Thinking ahead of a cappuccino in a café setting.
A copy of A History of Political Conflict by Julia Cagé and Thomas Piketty ahead of a blurry mahogany background.
A copy of Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel, and The Learning Household: How to Help your Child Get More out of School by Ken Bain ahead of two red lounge chairs in a foresty scene.
A book on a white background. The book is Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean: An Environmental History of Our Place in the Solar System by Dagomar Degroot.
Astronaut Ron Garan, Expedition 28 flight engineer, tweeted this image from the International Space Station on Aug. 14 with the following caption: "What a 'Shooting Star' looks like from space, taken yesterday during Perseid Meteor Shower." The image was photographed from the orbiting complex on Aug. 13 when it was over an area of China approximately 400 kilometers to the northwest of Beijing. The rare photo opportunity came as no surprise since the Perseid Meteor Shower occurs every year in August. The meteors are particles that originate from the comet Swift-Tuttle along its orbital path; the comet's orbit is close enough for these particles to be swept up by the Earth's gravitational field each year. Green and dim yellow airglow appears as thin layers visible above the limb of the Earth, extending from image left to upper image right. Atoms and molecules above 50 kilometers in the atmosphere are excited by sunlight during the day, and then release this energy at night producing primarily green light observable from orbit. The sun is low on the horizon as it appears near part of one of the station's solar panel arrays at image upper right.
A copy of the book Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religious Nationalists and the Contest for Post-Nazi Democracy by Brandon Block ahead of a church and steeple.
A copy of Fara Dabhoiwala's What Is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea against a marble background.
The 2025 New England Book Awards Finalists in Poetry, including Super Gay Poems: LGBTQIA+ Poetry After Stonewall by Stephanie Burt.
Shelves full of red and green Loeb Classical Library books.
A stack of books at the Asia Center of Harvard University. The books featured are: Stealing My Religion, Liz Bucar; To Save and to Destroy, Viet Thanh Nguyen; American Sutra, Duncan Williams; Bengali Halem, Vivek Bald; The First Asians in the Americas, Diego Javier Luis; A Fractured Liberation, Kornel Chang.
A copy of Robert Darton's The Writer's Lot on an antique table with a quill, inkwell, and melting, lit candle in an antique candleholder.
A copy of A Calculated Restraint: What Allied Leaders Said About the Holocaust by Richard Breitman in Harvard University Press's library