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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.

Tigers, Fairies, and Gods

Enchanting Folktales from Korea

By Mijeong Mimi Kim

The Economics of Higher Purpose

Eight Counterintuitive Steps For Creating a Purpose-Driven Organization

By Anjan V. Thakor

Michelangelo, God’s Architect

The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece

By William E. Wallace

Flatlining

Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy

By Adia Harvey Wingfield

Saint-Saëns and the Stage

Operas, Plays, Pageants, a Ballet and a Film

By Hugh Macdonald

Lessons Learned

Stories of a Teacher and Teaching

By David M. Becker

The End of the Beginning

Cancer, Immunity and the Future of a Cure

By Michael Kinch

Building the Black Arts Movement

Hoyt Fuller and the Cultural Politics of the 1960s

By Jonathan Fenderson

The Cambridge Companion to Boxing

The Cambridge Companion to Boxing

Edited by Gerald Early

What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew

(and What It Means to Americans)

Edited by Nancy Berg (with Naomi B. Sokoloff)

Lina Bo Bardi, Drawings

By Zeuler R. M. de A. Lima

In her new book, “Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving,” sociologist Caitlyn Collins argues that big changes in U.S. policies and cultural attitudes are necessary to bring work-life balance to America’s working mothers and their families.

Making Motherhood Work

How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving

By Caitlyn Collins