Biography & Memoir
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
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
The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Hardback
The riveting saga of the Seabrooks of New Jersey, by one of The New Yorker’s most acclaimed storytellers