Biology professor Sönke Johnsen’s "Into the Great Wide Ocean" is a compelling work of oceanography that reveals the greatest unexplored areas on Earth. Covering the open... Read More

Comprehensive and analytical, Benjamin Nathans’s "To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause" vivifies the Soviet intellectuals at the complex heart of the human-rights-oriented... Read More

Christine M. Larson’s "Love in the Time of Self-Publishing" uses the romance writing realm as a case study for how informal labor networks and mutual aid improve conditions... Read More

Physicist Claudia de Rham’s intimate scientific memoir "The Beauty of Falling" reveals the ups and downs of a life obsessed with gravity. After besting over ten thousand... Read More

A rare glimpse into the culture of the Middle Ages, Hana Videen’s whimsical book The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary dives into medieval manuscripts about animals both real... Read More

Researcher William Viney’s dazzling, illustration-rich book compiles scientific knowledge about, and cultural representations of, twins throughout history. Assisted... Read More

Stephen Porder’s science book "Elemental" examines the impact of five elements on Earth and its changing climate. Chronicling billions of years of history through the... Read More

Belying its modest title, Joshua Winn’s "The Little Book of Exoplanets" is an extraordinary, far-reaching astronomy book that describes the exploration of planets outside our... Read More

Though Charles Darwin is the more celebrated founder of theories of evolution and natural selection, his brilliant colleague Alfred Russel Wallace worked out these ideas, too.... Read More

Chaucer scholar Marion Turner’s experimental work of literary criticism charts a character’s lasting influence on international culture. A character in Geoffrey Chaucer’s... Read More

"The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein" trace the enigmatic genius’s 1925 tour through Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. Einstein agreed to the extended visit for academic and... Read More

Derek Sayer’s "Postcards from Absurdistan" is an encompassing review of cultural and sociopolitical Prague from tumultuous 1938 onward, detailed with compassion for the Czech... Read More