Now in paperback, Siddhartha Mukherjee's instant New York Times-bestselling The Emperor of All Maladies, a 'magisterial' history of cancer--one of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2010. 'An extraordinary achievement." -The New Yorker "It's time to welcome a new star in the constellation of great writer-doctors. ' --Washington Post.

From classicist James Romm comes a “striking…fascinating” (Booklist) deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great’s destruction of Thebes—and the saga of the greatest military corps of the time, the Theban Sacred Band, a unit composed of 150 pairs of male lovers.

The story of the Sacred Band, an elite 300-man corps recruited from pairs of lovers, highlights a chaotic era of ancient Greek history, four decades ...

From one of the world’s most celebrated intellectuals, a brilliantly insightful work that explains how we think about each other’s thoughts about each other’s thoughts, ad infinitum. It sounds impossible, but Steven Pinker shows that we do it all the time. This awareness, which we experience as something that is public or “out there,” is called common knowledge, and it has a momentous impact on our social, political, and economic lives.

Common knowledge is...