Biography & Memoir
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
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
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"
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
Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food
Paperback
A spirited new history of Chinese food told through an account of the remarkable life of Fu Pei-mei, the woman who brought Chinese cooking to the world