Thriller and true crime fans alike will savor forensic anthropologist Sue Black’s fascinating chronicle of her unusual profession.
Liza Mundy illuminates a little-known facet of American history: women from across the country were trained to be code breakers during World War II.
In her moving memoir, paleobiologist Hope Jahren shares the story of her remarkable career in science while musing on the wonders of the natural world.
Historian Keisha N. Blain’s extensively researched chronicle ensures that Fannie Lou Hamer’s story—and her lessons for activists—will live on.
Political scholar Lea Ypi’s memoir is fresh, poignant and funny as she explores Albania’s journey from socialism to liberalism through a child’s eyes.
Political scholar Lea Ypi’s memoir is fresh, poignant and funny as she explores Albania’s journey from socialism to liberalism through a child’s eyes.
Bernardine Evaristo’s debut memoir is a thoughtful, vivid, often funny work by an author who refuses to play it safe.
The Urge is several excellent books in one: a sweeping history of addiction, a compassionate look at treatment and a blistering critique of outdated policies.
An admiring portrait of the great American playwright Lorraine Hansberry lays bare both her greatness and her complications.
Harvard professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin finally gives Constance Baker Motley, a legal pioneer who steered the civil rights movement, the recognition she deserves.
Like the handsome, stone-faced performer himself, this new biography of Buster Keaton has wide appeal.
In a fascinating look at how humans fare against artificial intelligence, Oliver Roeder argues that games are, in fact, the things that make us human.
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