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THE JERUSALEM EFFECT d’Israel Finkelstein & Neil Asher Silberman

An exciting and timely new book by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman, the team who wrote the international bestseller The Bible Unearthed.

THE JERUSALEM EFFECT:
How a Remote Highland Stronghold Became the Most Contested City in the World
by Israel Finkelstein & Neil Asher Silberman
St. Martin’s Press, Spring 2028
(via the Carol Mann Agency)

Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman’s The Bible Unearthed has sold over 500,000 copies worldwide. Finkelstein is Israel’s most senior and distinguished archaeologist. Their upcoming book The Jerusalem Effect: How a Remote Highland Stronghold Became the Most Contested City in the World offers a new look at one of the most venerated–and disputed–cities in the world. It asks why this small, highland city on the edge of the desert has mattered so much to so many for so long. Through cutting-edge technology and study of ancient to modern texts, The Jerusalem Effect shows us how the archaeology and history of Jerusalem teaches us about some of today’s most urgent and geopolitical religious conflicts.

Finkelstein and Silberman critically depart from most other books concerned with Jerusalem and the Middle East through their innovative framework dubbed « The Jerusalem Effect »: an enduring belief that physical control of Jerusalem is proof of divine favor. Jerusalem, they argue, has become the flashpoint for the clash of two opposing ideologies: a desire to make the city pure and untouchable, and an outward-facing ambition to tie the city’s future to alliances with powerful empires around the world. At a moment when sacred geography and political identity are again colliding—from Jerusalem and Kyiv to Washington and Tehran—The Jerusalem Effect offers a unifying perspective on the history that lies behind today’s headlines.

In an era of disinformation, populism, and religious polarization, this book offers not just history but perspective—a diagnosis of why the myth of sacred possession continues to enthrall the modern world, and a warning that the drama first staged in Jerusalem over three thousand years ago is still being replayed on today’s political and spiritual stage. Writing for a wide general audience, The Jerusalem Effect is for anyone who wants to understand why this one city continues to ignite such faith and discord across the globe.

Israel Finkelstein is among the most influential archaeologists of his generation. A member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Finkelstein has also been featured on CNN and on news and opinion stories on European broadcast and streaming networks.

Neil Asher Silberman is an American archaeologist, historian, and heritage theorist whose writings and leadership in public archaeology have shaped international practice. A former Guggenheim Fellow and editor of the 3-volume Oxford Companion to Archaeology, he has been a frequent commentator and national lecturer for heritage-policy bodies and museum projects.

Together, Finkelstein and Silberman form a team uniquely positioned to contribute to the public media conversation at a time of renewed global interest in the politics of faith and identity. The Bible Unearthed continues to appear on academic and commercial reading lists two decades after publication, ensuring a substantial built-in audience for The Jerusalem Effect.

LOST IN SPACE de Neil deGrasse Tyson et Lindsey Nyx Walker

Prepare for liftoff with a sweeping new book on the universe from the world’s most celebrated astrophysicist, brimming with wit, authority, and laugh-out-loud humor.

LOST IN SPACE:
5,000 Facts for Navigating the Universe
by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Lindsey Nyx Walker
National Geographic, September 2026
(via Kaplan/DeFiore Rights)

Filled with 5,000 tantalizing facts and more than 300 charts, maps, and photographs, this book offers a dazzling look at the cosmos from our home planet to the farthest reaches of outer space.

Strap in for a thrilling journey through our solar system to the edge of the cosmos. This alluring treasury of 5,000 facts will take you there and back again, learning and laughing all the way.

With an eye-popping design and bold illustrations, Lost in Space takes on humanity’s exploration of the universe—telescopes, space missions, planets, moons, exoplanets, stars, galaxies, and more—backed by signature scientific know-how and a large dose of hilarity. In these pages, you’ll discover that:

• 100 trillion neutrinos pass through your body every second.
• If you weigh 150 pounds on Earth, you’d weigh 380 pounds on Jupiter.
• In 500 billion years, our sun will become a red giant star and expand to 100 times its original size.
• In 1999, astronomers discovered five exoplanets orbiting the same sun.
• Astronomers estimate there are two trillion galaxies in the observable universe.

Bursting with cool space photos, breathtaking archival images, infographics, moon maps, and a plethora of pop culture icons, Lost in Space is not just a journey—it’s a trip!

« Bursting with insights—often quite funny—that will spark the imaginations of readers young and old; one can eat it up in a long sitting or sporadically thumb through it and be dazzled by its revelations and colorful images. » —Starred review, Kirkus Reviews

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist and Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at New York’s American Museum of Natural History. He is the author of more than a dozen books, many of them international bestsellers, and numerous articles. He is the host of StarTalk, a podcast, and of two seasons of Cosmos, televised by Fox and National Geographic. He has received 27 honorary doctorates as well as NASA’s Distinguished Public Service Medal. He lives in New York City.

Lindsey Nyx Walker is the senior producer and head writer at StarTalk, a popular science podcast and a four-time Emmy nominated television show on the National Geographic Channel. She collaborated on both Cosmic Queries and the New York Times bestseller To Infinity and Beyond, the second and third books, respectively, in the publishing collaboration between StarTalk and National Geographic Books. She lives in New York City. Visit her on TikTok @spacetok.

DBNY de Daniel Boulud & Andrew Friedman

A memoir from one of the most beloved and acclaimed chefs in the world, one who changed the culinary landscape forever.

DBNY
by Daniel Boulud & Andrew Friedman
Grand Central, Fall 2027
(via David Black Literary)

Chef Daniel Boulud’s career to date has spanned four decades, more than a dozen restaurants worldwide, and the mentorship of countless chefs, many of whom have become household names in their own right. He first trained under a succession of influential figures in his native France, but as readers will learn in this book, it’s been his relationship with New York City, and by extension America, that has been the greatest catalyst for his seemingly boundless ideas, energy, and success. As the fortieth anniversary of his moving to New York City approaches, Danie is ready to tell his story, and that of his times, mingling it with a

celebration of his adopted home.

Through his memoir, Boulud will expore the value of New York City and America to culinarians generally, and to him in particular, and how incorporating the panoply of cultures and cuisines here transformed his food from resolutely French to something … well, still unmistakably French, but more expansive and modern, and made him a better and more universally relatable chef. He will trace the modern American food and restaurant movement from the point of view of a Frenchman who came to the US, helped change food and restaurants, and trained generations of chefs. He will examine how American ingenuity and lust for commerce positively impacted him as a businessperson and operator, inspiring him to constantly explore new concepts, and opening his mind to new ways of serving quantities of guests quality food in numbers that would be inconceivable in his home country.

He will give a firsthand personal and professional accounting of living through multiple economic downturns and recoveries in the Reagan years, the Clinton years, after 9/11, and the COVID pandemic, and discuss the American experience, and yes the American dream, from the point of view of an immigrant. And he will give his thoughts and guidance for how to grow a business, empire, and team while staying true to your defining personal values.

Daniel Boulud is a French chef and restaurateur with restaurants in New York City, Palm Beach, Miami, Toronto, Montréal, Singapore, the Bahamas, and Dubai. He is the author of several cookbooks and is best known for his eponymous restaurant Daniel, opened in New York City in 1993, which currently holds one Michelin star.

Andrew Friedman is the author of Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll: How Food Lovers, Free Spirits, Misfits and Wanderers Created a New American Profession (2018), and producer and host of the independent podcast Andrew Talks to Chefs, currently in its sixth year. He is also the author of Knives at Dawn: America’s Quest for Culinary Glory at the Legendary Bocuse d’Or Competition (2009), co-editor of the internationally popular anthology Don’t Try This at Home: Culinary Catastrophes from the World’s Greatest Chefs, and co-author of more than twentyfive cookbooks, memoirs, and other projects with some of the United States’ finest and most well-known chefs. Additionally, he is an adjunct professor within the School of Graduate and Professional Studies at the Culinary Institute of America. An avid tennis player, he co- authored American tennis star James Blake’s New York Times bestselling memoir Breaking Back: How I Lost Everything and Won Back My Life (2007), and was for several years a TENNIS magazine editor-at-large. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

COGNITIVE EXTINCTION de Nita Farahany

A sobering look at how digital life is eroding our thinking, our freedom, and what it means to be human―and how to reclaim what we’ve lost.

COGNITIVE EXTINCTION:
Saving Human Thought While We Still Can
by Nita Farahany
St. Martin’s Press, March 2027

Something is disappearing from human life: our ability to think freely, engage meaningfully with others, and be present in our own lives. Can we adapt to the modern world without losing the qualities that make us human?

In COGNITIVE EXTINCTION, Nita Farahany, one of the world’s foremost scholars on the ethical, legal, and societal implications of emerging technologies, names what is happening: we are losing our cognitive liberty, the ability to trust our perceptions and govern ourselves. We can sense this intuitively, but we don’t recognize that these struggles present a dire threat to our institutions and the common ground beneath us all―the cognitive commonwealth itself.

After years of questioning these alarming trends, she found answers when she least expected it: through her own grief. When her daughter, Callista, passed away, Farahany’s cognitive world collapsed. As she tried to make sense of what was happening, she discovered that the mental capacities she had lost mirrored those being hollowed out across society through digital immersion.

What has been degraded, Farahany argues, can still be rebuilt. That begins with each of us. We must resist the temptation to sleepwalk into cognitive extinction and collectively recognize that our mental freedom is at stake. Only then can we reclaim a world in which humans find meaning and flourish.

Deeply felt and rigorously researched, COGNITIVE EXTINCTION is a clarion call for all of us to pay attention to what we’re losing―while we can still feel ourselves losing it.

“This may be the most important book written about technology, human flourishing, and what we need to protect to become fully ourselves.” ―Lori Gottlieb, bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

Nita Farahany is a legal scholar and philosopher who studies the societal implications of emerging technologies. She is the Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law and Philosophy at Duke University and the founding director of Duke Science & Society. She is a frequent speaker at events including TED, the Aspen Ideas Festival, and the World Economic Forum. Her previous book, The Battle for Your Brain, has shaped global conversations on cognitive liberty and mental privacy.

DIE UNVERSCHÄMTE FRAU de Miriam Stein

A both personal and socio-critical examination of toxic shame – over our sexuality, our bodies, our origins – and how to free ourselves from it.

DIE UNVERSCHÄMTE FRAU
[The Shameless Woman]
by Miriam Stein
Goldmann/PRH Germany, September 2026

Being able to feel shame is key to our survival as a social animal. It’s a clever little mechanism that ensures we follow social norms. But whereas men usually seem capable of dealing with it relatively well, women often overdo it. It’s a powerful emotion, and from childhood onwards it’s like a toxic friend in your ear, controlling your decisions, keeping you in line, and telling you that you aren’t empathetic / confident / slim / feminine / smooth / natural enough. No matter how emancipated a woman you are, thousands of years of patriarchy aren’t something you can shake off just like that.

Bestselling author and journalist Miriam Stein has known all about shame ever since she was a little girl. In fact, she was practically born with it: in 1977, someone left newborn Miriam on a South Korean street corner in a shoe box, wrapped in newspaper. Was her mother not allowed to keep her? Was she ashamed of her pregnancy? Meanwhile, Miriam has gone through puberty, experienced her own pregnancy, survived career setbacks and relationship crises, and even seen off perimenopause – the female ‘shame supernova’ par excellence. In « The Shameless Woman », she sets out to expose the many false narratives that darken so many women’s lives, and to forge a path towards liberation.

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Miriam Yung Min Stein was born in South Korea in 1977 and subsequently adopted by a German family. She has performed on stage with Christoph Schlingensief and Rimini Protokoll, and is an acclaimed culture journalist. Her bestselling Die gereizte Frau (‘The irritated woman’), about the menopause, turned what was largely a taboo topic into one openly discussed in public. In her most recent book, Weise Frauen (‘Wise women’), she went in search of female wisdom. She lives with her family in Berlin.