Robin George Andrews

A gripping account of the “city-killer” asteroids that could threaten Earth and the race to build a planetary defense system

David Chaffetz

A captivating history of civilisation that reveals the central role of the horse in culture, commerce and conquest

Max Boot

Son of the Midwest, movie star and mesmerising politician—America's fortieth president comes to three-dimensional life in this gripping and profoundly revisionist biography

Peter Hujar, Benjamin Moser, Susan Sontag

A new edition of the cult classic photography book by the legendary Peter Hujar, featuring a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser

Dalton Conley

A pioneering scientist presents a mind-expanding account of the sociogenomics revolution, which promises to upend everything we know about human development

Elaine Sciolino

A former The New York Times Paris bureau chief explores the Louvre, offering an intimate journey of discovery and revelation

David Hajdu

An acclaimed critic, journalist and songwriter-musician tells the story of art’s relation to machines, from the Baroque period to the age of AI

Keith Houston

A vibrant exploration of the world's newest language—where it came from, how it works and where it's going

John Seabrook

The riveting saga of the Seabrooks of New Jersey, by one of The New Yorker’s most acclaimed storytellers

Morgan Falconer

The strange story of the twentieth-century artists who sought to destroy art by transforming it into the substance of everyday life

Lynn Hunt

An illuminating exploration of the tensions between self and society in the age of revolutions

James Romm

A rare biographical portrait of the philosopher Plato, showing how the ideas in his masterwork, Republic, were tested amidst a bloody civil war

Peter Kuper

Award-winning cartoonist Peter Kuper transports readers through the 400-million-year history of insects and the remarkable entomologists who have studied them