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
By an award-winning astrophysicist and coauthor of Where Did the Universe Come From?, a brisk, lucid tour of the human quest to uncover reality’s fundamentals, from the atomic to the cosmological
The Shortest History of Egypt: From the Dynastic to the Present—A Desert Nation’s 5,000 Years of Change and Continuity
Paperback
Our “American in Cairo” author goes beyond King Tut and tomb-raiders to discover one of the world’s oldest civilizations in her fast-paced account across seven millennia
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 Last Best Place on the Internet: A Human History of Wikipedia
Hardback
A playful and provocative exploration of mighty Wikipedia: how it was built, why it thrived, and what we lose as its ideals disintegrate.
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.