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From the front lines of the new opioid crisis

More powerful than morphine, fentanyl killed pop-music icon Prince in 2016. Alum Ben Westhoff investigates how it gets to America, how it got so popular and what we can do to save lives in his new book.

Book cover for Fentanyl, Inc. looming dangerously over nice neighborhood

Browse titles from Washington University’s faculty and alumni. Thoughtful. Diverse. Well researched. These books might just make it to your shelf, nightstand or coffee table.

The Cloud Lasso

By Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer

Award Winner

Two Brothers, Four Hands

The Artists Alberto and Diego Giacometti

By Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan

World of Glass

The Art of Dale Chihuly

By Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan

The Content of Our Caricature

African American Comic Art and Political Belonging

By Rebecca Wanzo

Inclusive Child Development Accounts

Toward Universality and Progressivity

Edited by Jin Huang, Li Zou and Michael Sherraden

Black Lives and Spatial Matters

Policing Blackness and Practicing Freedom in Suburban St. Louis

By Jodi Rios

Uncontrollable Blackness

African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York

By Douglas Flowe

The African Methodist Episcopal Church

A History

By Dennis C. Dickerson

The Last Children of Mill Creek

By Vivian Gibson

The Great Leap Backward

Forgetting and Representing the Mao Years

By Lingchei Letty Chen

The Anthropology of Islamic Law

Education, Ethics, and Legal Interpretation at Egypt's Al-Azhar

By Aria Nakissa

Statistics With R

Solving Problems Using Real-World Data

By Jenine Harris