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A "gripping" (Booklist) and "richly detailed" (Kirkus Reviews) history of the fortune seekers, adventurers, despots, and thieves who have ruthlessl...

A "gripping" (Booklist) and "richly detailed" (Kirkus Reviews) history of the fortune seekers, adventurers, despots, and thieves who have ruthlessl...

Foundations are a peculiarly American institution. They have been the dynamo of social change since their invention at the beginning of the last ce...

A rollicking history of America’s most iconic weekly newspaper told through the voices of its legendary writers, editors, and photographers “The Fr...

A rollicking history of America’s most iconic weekly newspaper told through the voices of its legendary writers, editors, and photographers “The Fr...

In this incisive new book, Michael Mandelbaum argues that the era marked by an expansive American foreign policy is coming to an end. During the se...

Long at the margins of global affairs and at the edge of our mental map of the world, the Arctic has found its way to the center of the issues whic...

Bestselling culture writer David Sax lays out the case against a false digital utopia—and for a more human future In The Future Is Analog, David Sa...

From the scholar who coined the term “soft power,” a bracing examination of what it means to lead in the digital age “Nye is a master of his field ...

An award-winning military historian, professor, and political adviser delivers the definitive story of warfare in all its guises and applications, ...

An award-winning military historian, professor, and political adviser delivers the definitive story of warfare in all its guises and applications, ...

Is there anything more universally American than NFL football? Love of the NFL runs deep and broad. It is a primetime TV event on multiple national...

With The Gashouse Gang, John Heidenry delivers the definitive account of one the greatest and most colorful baseball teams of all times, the 1934 S...

A New Yorker Best Book of the YearThe next frontier in technology is inside our own bodies. The breakthrough science of synthetic biology has the p...

A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA breakthrough investigation of synthetic biology: the promising and controversial technology platform that combi...

The definitive story of the California redwoods, their discovery and their exploitation, as told by an activist who fought to protect their existen...

A surprising and compelling journey into the business of paranormal investigation, and the state of scientific literacy in America. In 2010, a slee...

Syrian immigrant Khadra Shamy is growing up in a devout, tightly knit Muslim family in 1970s Indiana, at the crossroads of bad polyester and Islami...

In an era when American artists didn't count and women were expected to stay home, Edith Gregor Halpert burst onto the fledgling New York gallery s...

It was the 1960s -- a time of economic boom and social strife. Young women poured into the workplace, but the "Help Wanted" ads were segregated by ...

The current model of parental discipline is as outdated as a rotary phone. Why don't our kids do what we want them to do? Parents often take the bl...

The current model of parental discipline is as outdated as a rotary phone. Why don't our kids do what we want them to do? Parents often take the bl...

In 2009, the Good News Club came to the public elementary school where journalist Katherine Stewart sent her children. The Club, which is sponsored...

In 2009, the Good News Club came to the public elementary school where journalist Katherine Stewart sent her children. The Club, which is sponsored...