Value books

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“In our uncertain age, which can so often feel so dark and disturbing, Steven Pinker has distinguished himself as a voice ...

“An engrossing and impossibly wide-ranging project . . . In The Free World, every seat is a good one.” ―Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post“The Free...

Don’t believe in interspecies communication? Grayson, author [Lynne] Cox’s moving memoir about the lost baby whale she encountered when she was 17,...

Glamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out, and want...

Hobson, Brandon

The story of the fascinating, fraught alliance among Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Maria Weston Chapman--and how its breakup led ...

A leading artificial intelligence researcher lays out a new approach to AI that will enable us to coexist successfully with increasingly intelligen...

"Riveting. ... Pattison's uncanny ability [is] to write evocatively about science. ... In this, he is every bit as good as the best scientist write...

From Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between America’s railroad titansIn 1869, when the final spike...

This true story is the basis for the hit APPLE TV series, BLACK BIRD, starring Taron Edgerton, Paul Walter Hauser, Greg Kinnear, and Ray Liotta. Ji...

W. H. Hudson was brought up on the pampas, where he learnt from gauchos about frontier life. After moving to London in 1874, Hudson lived in extrem...

In 2015, Noah Strycker set himself a lofty goal: to become the first person to see half the world’s birds in one year. For 365 days, with a backpac...

FINALIST FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD***A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021***A SCIENCE NEWS FAVORITE BOOK OF 2021***A ...

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize | Finalist for the 2022 Edgar AwardWinner of the 2021 Quinn AwardAn innovative biography of Edgar All...

Weighing in from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, today’s most forward-thinking minds explore the rise of “machines that think.”Stephen Hawki...

New York Times Bestseller | Wall Street Journal Bestseller | Publishers Weekly Bestseller | Publishers Marketplace 2020 Buzz Book  | Amazon Best Bo...

Longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardA leading neuroscientist offers a history of the evolution of the brain from unice...

The classic memoir by Cleveland Sellers that offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse into his volunteer work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Co...

"[DePalma] renders a Cuba few tourists will ever see . . . You won't forget these people soon, and you are bound to emerge from DePalma's bighearte...

Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History and a New York Times Editors Choice Pick"After reading Super Fly, you will never take...

In short, gloriously inventive essays, the Whiting Award–winning author Amy Leach’s The Everybody Ensemble invites us to see and celebrate our oddb...

AKA "Why Geography Matters" One word binds us all: geography. We are all geographers, human beings who care about the places we think of as 'home' ...

A sweeping history--and counter-narrative--of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.Dee Brown's 1970 Bury My Heart at ...

“Ebbesmeyer’s goal is noble and fresh: to show how the flow of ocean debris around the world reveals ‘the music’ of the world’s oceans.”     —New Y...