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Mia Bay
Sheila Jasanoff
Congratulations to Mia Bay and Sheila Jasanoff who were recognized this month for outstanding work!

Mia Bay’s Traveling Black is a winner of the 2022 Bancroft Prize. Bancroft Prize Judges laud, “A major intervention in our understanding of the civil rights movement and the everyday life of racial domination.”

Sheila Jasanoff, author of The Fifth Branch and Science at the Bar, is named the 2022 Holberg Laureate. Holberg Committee Chair Heike Krieger states, “Through sharing her work in both academic and popular forums, Jasanoff is a significant public intellectual, offering timely comments on topics of public concern.”

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New Books in March
Who’s Black and Why?
Who’s Black and Why? »
Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Andrew S. Curran, Who’s Black and Why? is the first translation and publication of sixteen submissions to the notorious eighteenth-century Bordeaux essay contest on the cause of “black” skin—an indispensable chronicle of the rise of scientifically based, anti-Black racism.
New Rome
New Rome »
Paul Stephenson’s New Rome offers a novel, scientifically-minded interpretation of antiquity’s end. New York Review of Books commends, “[A] major contribution… Brings the world of New Rome alive.”
A Little Book about the Big Bang
A Little Book about the Big Bang »
Tony Rothman’s A Little Book about the Big Bang receives raves from BBC Sky at Night, “This book may look small in size but, much like Doctor Who’s TARDIS, on the inside it is so much bigger.”
The Listeners
The Listeners »
Brian Hochman’s The Listeners traces the long and surprising history of wiretapping and electronic eavesdropping in the United States. A starred Publishers Weekly review urges us to be all ears for this “fascinating history.”
Murty Classical Library of India
Murty Classical Library of India
New Volumes »
Murty Classical Library of India’s redesigned website announces new volumes, including the paperbacks of Biharilal’s He Spoke of Love and Mir Taqi Mir’s Ghazals.
The History of Akbar
The History of Akbar »
The Wall Street Journal praises the eight-volume complete set of The History of Akbar: “An intricate (and often intimate) narrative of his reign… [This] translation… is impressively meticulous.”
More on Our Shelves
The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution

The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution »
“Rousing and authoritative… attempt[s] to recover the Constitution’s pivotal role in shaping claims of justice and equality.”
—New Republic
Also available: Time of Anarchy • New Democracy • The Seventh Member State • Sustainable Utopias • The Class Matrix • On Theories

Paperbacks: The Cabinet • The Hacker and the State • Island on Fire • The Perfect Fascist • Tacky’s Revolt • Unbelievers • Why We Act • Being Property Once Myself • The Global Interior • Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire

New in The I Tatti Renaissance Library:
Life of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Oration
The War in Ukraine
On our blog »
We present books that offer a better understanding of the complicated, intertwined pasts of Ukraine and Russia.

In the News
Leading experts in economics, history, and politics, our authors continue to speak with the media about this crisis:
Events
17 March 2022: Brian Hochman (The Listeners) at Commonwealth Club of California »

22 March 2022: Bruce A. Ragsdale (Washington at the Plow) at Charleston Library Society »

24 March 2022: Bruce A. Ragsdale (Washington at the Plow) at Mount Vernon »

30 March 2022: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Andrew S. Curran (Who’s Black and Why?) at the Museum of Science »

31 March 2022: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Andrew S. Curran (Who’s Black and Why?) with Evelynn Hammonds at the Brattle Theatre presented by Harvard Book Store and the Hutchins Center at Harvard University »
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