History
The Shortest History of Reality: From Plato’s Cave to the Mind-Bending Discoveries of Modern Physics—The Human Quest to Explain the World
Paperback
An award-winning astrophysicist leads a brisk, lucid tour of the human quest to uncover reality’s fundamentals, from myth-making to mathematical precision
The Shortest History of Egypt: From the Dynastic to the Present—A Desert Nation’s 5,000 Years of Change and Continuity
Paperback
An exhilarating and original history of Egypt—a desert nation’s 5,000 years of change and continuity
Freedom's Gate: Maya Angelou, Lorraine Hansberry, Abbey Lincoln, Miriam Makeba, and Nina Simone Live at the New York Nightclub that Shaped the Civil Rights Movement
Hardback
An illuminating portrait of five Black woman artists and the New York nightclub that helped inspire the civil rights movement.
The Dark Side of France: A History of the French Far Right from the 1890s to the Present
Hardback
An absorbing and timely exploration of the French far right, from the Dreyfus affair to Marine Le Pen and the National Rally.
The Last Best Place on the Internet: A Human History of Wikipedia
Hardback
One of the keystone inventions of the twenty-first century, Wikipedia is the largest repository of human knowledge ever made, with editions in 343...