Gioia Diliberto’s "Firebrands" visits the Roaring Twenties and beyond, revealing how four women’s efforts shaped the course of American history. When American women won the... Read More

Josh L. Davis’s illustrated and informative science text "A Little Queer Natural History" reveals that the natural world is more complex and inclusive than people often... Read More

Michelle M. Nickerson’s "Spiritual Criminals" is a gripping account of the Camden 28, Catholic war protesters who burglarized a federal building and were acquitted in a... Read More

In captivating words, photographs, and illustrations, geologist Edmund Stump’s book "Otherworldly Antarctica" covers the “stark and utterly pristine” continent where... Read More

"Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms" is a delightful exploration of an often-overlooked aspect of the natural world: the fungi that are essential to the health of the planet.... Read More

Michael Denneny’s memoir-in-essays "On Christopher Street" illuminates various aspects of gay life in the past half-century. Denneny spent much of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s... Read More

In "Chasing Plants", botanist Chris Thorogood shares how his lifelong obsession with plants led him to precarious situations in far-flung places to find them, no matter what it... Read More

Erica Gies’s book documents how conventional water control efforts damage ecosystems and the water cycle, and how they are overwhelmed by natural disasters driven by climate... Read More

In "Power in the Wild", animal behaviorist Lee Alan Dugatkin examines the evolution of social behavior, with a focus on struggles for power within animal societies. From ants to... Read More

Cavan W. Concannon’s "Profaning Paul" is likely the first work of biblical criticism that begins in an outhouse and ends in a garbage heap. Its references to waste offer... Read More

The origins of the conspiracy theories that permeate modern American politics are revealed in Edward H. Miller’s biography of Robert Welch, "A Conspiratorial Life". Born into... Read More

Paleobotanists and geologists faced injury, stiff winds, polar bears, and arduous daily climbs in the summer of 2002 as they collected thousands of fossilized plants from the... Read More