The authorized biography of a brilliant theoretical physicist and science communicator, featuring revelations from never-before-seen personal records, by an award-winning writer and...

The beloved landmark book illuminating the spiritual journey of untangling our lives from addiction, from the bestselling author of The Tears of Things and The Universal Christ“Brother Rohr may just...

"American essayist Eliot Weinberger's new book about angels and saints"--

Albert Einstein transformed our understanding of the universe--but he didn't do it alone. This book traces the full arc of the relativity revolution, from the overlooked protorelativity period...

"Today's Supreme Court justices bristle at the label 'politicians in robes,' insisting that they operate above the fray of partisan politics. But for the first century of the nation's history, the...

"Brazilian musician Tom Zé (b. 1936) is one of the most inventive artists of the past century. His transformative music and poetic lyricism received critical acclaim in Brazil's Tropicalia, a...

"Originally published in 1961, Benjamin Quarles's The Negro in the American Revolution remains one of the most comprehensive histories of the presence and politics of Black people in the colonies and...

An illuminating deep dive into the GIF and its evolution from a technical workaround to a powerful digital communication tool. Since its creation in 1987, the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) has...

Descubre la ciencia que hace que cada horneado sea perfecto. Prepara croissants, pasteles, soufflés ¡y mucho más!, con más de 50 recetas paso a paso, y profundiza en la química que hay detrás de...

"Sweetbitter meets Nomadland, we follow Annie as she leaves her NYC life of bartending and dancing to drive cross-country to Alaska to meet her dying mother"-- Provided by publisher.

What happens in the brain on the brink of death? One person’s last words might be lucid, revealing deep-seated thoughts and emotions. Another person might be brought to intensive care and never...

"Company towns are back. From Indian oil refineries to Kenyan canned food factories to Amazon warehouses, companies today rule over the daily lives of around a million people. In these enclaves of...

"For me, a truly compelling, fact-packed read all about how guitars are made, look, sound, and play. Atkinson admirably recounts a century of history, invention, and experimentation by experts and...

"In the early decades of the nineteenth century, G. W. F. Hegel believed that philosophy was finally in position to achieve something it had strived for since Ancient Greece: becoming an objective,...

"Charts the historical development of induction and challenges contemporary understandings of the concept and its foundations. The problem of induction continues to vex and beguile. How can we...

"This pathbreaking exploration of the complexities of Los Angeles County aims to encompass the many distinctive aspects of the region and its history, and to illuminate how those qualities inform...

Paw through pages of amazing destinations across the planet where you can meet city kitties, rural tabbies and wild cats. Packed with photography and facts about worldly cats and their habitats,...

"While voracious cotton and sugar enslavers across the U.S. South and Southwest terrorized and destroyed the lives of countless enslaved children, men, and women in the nineteenth century, thousands...