"The Murders of Moisés Ville" covers gruesome murders in a fledgling Jewish community in late-nineteenth-century Argentina. Alongside its details of the crimes, the book chronicles Javier Sinay’s research experiences into them in... Read More

“Paleontology is one of the most familiar and accessible of all sciences,” Roy Plotnick proclaims. Why? Dinosaurs, of course. Drawn in as children, a lucky few get the chance to make a career out of serendipitous fossil discoveries.... Read More

Anneliese Abbott’s "Malabar Farm" chronicles the significant history of what was once a small private farm, and is now a state park, recreation area, working farm, and living history site. In the uncertain period before World War II,... Read More

Chocolate Runs Through My Veins is a riveting historical investigation into how the worlds of women and cocoa intersected. Connie Spenuzza’s revelatory feminist history Chocolate Runs Through My Veins covers the agriculture,... Read More

In 1971, the ratification of the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age from twenty-one to eighteen. Jennifer Frost’s thorough, valuable "Let Us Vote!" celebrates the amendment’s semicentennial by chronicling the long struggle to pass... Read More

Crossing nations and historical periods, the memoir "Chopin through the Window" covers both unimaginable and everyday challenges. Franziska I. Stein’s eloquent memoir "Chopin through the Window" concerns hardships endured in the... Read More

In his latest political science book, Tariq Ali explains and condemns foreign interference in the Middle East, from the Russian occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, to its American occupation, which began in 2001. Ali reveals that... Read More

Don and Petie Kladstrup’s "Champagne Charlie" is the enjoyable biography of Charles Heidsieck, a dazzling, daring, and adroit French champagne merchant who risked his life and limbs to sell his esteemed bubbly to Americans in the... Read More