A thrilling narrative of scientific triumph, decades of secrecy, and the unimaginable destruction wrought by the creation of the atomic bomb. Learn More

A dramatic insider's account of the making of and backlash against the 1983 made-for-TV movie The Day After. Learn More

From the acclaimed author of God and Gold and Special Providence, a groundbreaking new work that overturns the conventional understanding of the Israeli-American relationship. Learn More

In Are We There Yet?, Dan Albert combines historical scholarship with personal narrative to explore how car culture has suffused America’s DNA. Learn More

Aroused is a guided tour through the strange science of hormones and the age-old quest to control them. Learn More

Set against two distinct epochs in the history of Pasadena, California, Arroyo tells the parallel stories of a young man and his dog in 1913 and 1993. Learn More

Asperger's Children is a groundbreaking exploration of the chilling history behind an increasingly common diagnosis. Learn More

In Assembling Life, David Deamer addresses questions that are the cutting edge of research on the origin of life. For instance, how did non-living organic compounds assemble into the first forms of primitive cellular life? What was the source of those compounds and the energy that produced the first nucleic acids? Did life begin in the ocean or in fresh water on terrestrial land masses? Learn More

At the Frontier of God's Empire: A Missionary Odyssey in Modern China tells the remarkable story of Alfred Marie Caubrière (1876–1948). Learn More

An incisive and powerful investigation of corporate impact on human and planetary well-being. Learn More

To fully understand the Trump phenomenon, John Dean, a man with a history of standing up to autocratic presidents, joins with Bob Altemeyer, a psychology professor with a unique area of expertise: authoritarianism. Learn More

A concentrated study of Johann Sebastian Bach’s creative output and greatest pieces, capturing the essence of his art. Learn More

"Rebel historian" Kelly Lytle Hernández reframes our understanding of US history in this groundbreaking narrative of revolution in the borderlands. Learn More

To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pull off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven. Learn More

Bruce Catton, Pulitzer-Prize winner and one of the most acclaimed historians of the Civil War, vividly recreates the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg. Learn More

For readers of Karen Armstrong, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens: An impassioned and learned account of atheisms origins in antiquity Learn More

Great Expectations meets Grantchester in this story of love and lies, secrets and second chances, set in Edwardian England. Learn More

A narrative account of the relationship between the U.S. and China from the Revolutionary War to the present day. Learn More

An incisive biography of E. E. Cummings's early life, including his World War I ambulance service and subsequent imprisonment, inspirations for his inventive poetry.
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