Biography & Memoir
Augustine the African
Hardback
An extraordinary work of revisionist history that centres Africa in the life of one of the greatest philosophers
Belle Starr: The Truth Behind the Wild West Legend
Hardback
In this definitive biography of the most infamous female American outlaw of the nineteenth century, Michael Wallis challenges a notorious legacy
Collisions: A Physicist's Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs
Hardback
A riveting biography of the Nobel Prize–winning experimental physicist hailed as “the greatest scientific detective of the twentieth century"
Origin Story: The Trials of Charles Darwin
Paperback
A lively account of how Darwin’s work on natural selection transformed science and society, and an investigation into the mysterious illness that plagued its author
The Many Passions of Michael Hardwick: Sex and the Supreme Court in the Age of AIDS
Hardback
The little-known story of the man who sparked a groundswell of gay activism with a wrongly decided Supreme Court decision