Book Reviews

The Face of the Buddha

William Empson. Edited by Rupert Arrowsmith. Oxford University Press, 2016. 208 pages. $49.95.

New York Studio Conversations: Seventeen Women Talk about Art

Edited by Stephanie Buhmann. The Green Box Kunst Editionen, Berlin, 2016. 215 pages. $22.50.

Is God Happy?: Selected Essays

Leszek Kolakowski. Basic Books, 2013. 327 pages. $28.99.

National Geographic’s Rarely Seen: Photographs of the Extraordinary

Susan Tyler Hitchcock, foreword by Stephen Alvarez. National Geographic, 2014. 400 pages. $40.00.

Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo

Victoria Tennant. University of Chicago Press, 2014. 256 pages. $55.00.

Thomas Hardy’s Brains: Psychology, Neurology, and Hardy’s Imagination

Suzanne Keen. Ohio State University Press, 2014. 265 pages. $52.01.

The Habsburg Empire: A New History

Pieter M. Judson. Harvard University Press, 2016. 567 pages. $35.00.

Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet

Gernot Wagner and Martin L. Weitzman. Princeton University Press, 2015. 250 pages. $18.95.

The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton

William E. Leuchtenburg. Oxford University Press, 2015. 904 pages. $39.95.

Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue

Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz. Harvard University Press, 2015. 144 pages. $17.95.

Left Behind: Urban High Schools and the Failure of Market Reform

Edward P. St. John, et al. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. 208 pages. $34.95.

Houston, We Have a Narrative

Randy Olson. University of Chicago Press, 2015. 256 pages. $20.00. (Paperback)