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🌈 Happy Pride Month! Celebrate with these five titles that educate and spotlight LGBTQ+ stories.

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Announcing my new book THE GREAT ATOM DEBATE.

Journey back in time and witness an epic struggle between two scientific geniuses over the very nature of reality. History of physics at its most riveting!

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🤖 New to you! RISE OF THE ROBOTS by Martin Ford (@MFordFuture) is now available in paperback.

Updated for the unfolding AI disruption, this prescient classic shows how automation is changing the economy, undermining work, and reshaping our lives.

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Happy publication day to THE RETURN OF THE GREAT POWERS!

Renowned historian Brendan Simms offers a new history of the rise, fall, and return of the Great Powers in our time, revealing the new rules of global leadership.

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🇺🇸 THE LONG REVOLUTION: Creating a United States After 1776 is available now!

Ahead of America’s 250th birthday, historian Nathan Perl-Rosenthal (@NathanPR1) provides a provocative argument that a “Long Revolution” formed the violently beating heart of American politics for decades after 1776.

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On this day in 1911, 38th Vice President of the United States Hubert Humphrey was born.

In TRUE BELIEVER, celebrated historian James Traub reveals a deep-dyed idealist willing to compromise and even fight ugly in pursuit of a better society.

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Honor Memorial Day with seven Basic Books Group titles covering service, sacrifice, and remembrance that will stay with readers long after the last page.

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THE FIRST GHETTO: Venice and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism is available now!

Tracing its story from its medieval origins to the present day, historian Alexander Lee (@alexander_c_lee) explores the Ghetto through the eyes of its Jewish inhabitants.

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📡 THE ECHOING UNIVERSE: How Radio Astronomy Helps Us See the Invisible Cosmos is now available!

Dr. Emma Chapman, Ph.D. tunes us in to the universe and what it is trying to say, through the science of radio astronomy.

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From a leading scholar of the ancient world, ATLAS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE offers a stunning illustrated guide to the Roman Empire, exploring every aspect of its rise to power, its dominion over the world, and its eventual fall.

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It's graduation season! These three books from the Basic Books Group make great gifts for the college graduate looking for inspiration and guidance as they embark on their next chapter.

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On this day in 1914, one of the greatest boxers of the 20th century, Joe “the Brown Bomber” Louis, was born.

In THE FIGHT FOR HIS LIFE, award-winning sports historians Johnny Smith and Randy Roberts tell the story of Louis’s battles both in and out of the ring.

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ATHENS AND SPARTA: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece is available now!

A remarkable account of ancient Greece at its height, award-winning historian Adrian Goldsworthy tells the tale of two cities that helped build it—before almost tearing it apart.

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On this day in 1918, theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Richard Feynman was born.

SIX EASY PIECES is the ideal introduction to the fundamentals of physics by Feynam, one of the most admired and accessible physicists of modern times.

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Exciting news on the Perlstein publishing front.

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💐 These nine titles offer something for every mom, covering groundbreaking women in history and modern womanhood, plus guides for new moms.

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AVAILABLE NOW: ATLAS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE: Battles, Conquests, Legions and Rulers by David Potter!

From a leading scholar of the ancient world, this stunning illustrated guide to the Roman Empire explores every aspect of its rise to power, its dominion over the world, and its eventual fall.

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Available 5/19, THE FLAG WAS STILL THERE is a clear-eyed yet hopeful history of the United States, revisiting the state of the union every fifty years since America's birth.

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AFTER THE FALL by Ian Shapiro and THE FLAG WAS STILL THERE by David McKean and @MToddBennett have been named May 2026 must-reads by the @NextBigIdeaClub!

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In AFTER THE FALL, pre-eminent political scientist Ian Shapiro explains the rightward turn of global politics since the end of the Cold War.

Out TODAY! Order your copy now: https://t.co/xZNx0av1Dv