The Status GameWill Storr is one of our best journalists of ideas The Status Game might be his best yet James Marriott, Books of the Year, The Times What drives our political and moral beliefs? What shapes our bitterest conflicts and wildest dreams? What makes you, you? Across the world, from Papua New Guinea to Tokyo and Manhattan, humans compete for status. Through games of dominance, virtue and success, its an obsession that has driven the best and worst of us:

written by students of Stuyvesant High School based on their interviews with the school community

illustrated guide is filled with engaging exercises that deepen your knowledge of the solar system

desperate for closure of some kind

From cave drawings to the invention of the printing press to our digital age

from Brazil’s president Lula to international celebrities and civil rights groups

Trapped in the mountains

But the investigation turns sinister when one of the students is found poisoned in her room

“One of the finest and most original writers…and one of the greatest Polish writers of [the 20th] century

always at hand

and what is at stake in our digital future

Jane might just find herself becoming the woman she was always meant to be

Featuring a detachable compass in the cover