History
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
Paperback
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a strange continent and brings back tales of untold...
Alexandra Petri's US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up)
Hardback
If you’re going to lie about the past, you might as well make up lies that are fun!
Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War
Paperback
Sisters separated by war forge new identities as they are forced to choose between family, nation and their own independence
Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University
Paperback
A premier historian penetrates the fog of corruption and cover-up still surrounding the murder of a Stanford University founder to establish who did it, how and why
Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator
Hardback
The hidden history of the pocket calculator—a device that ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb and went with us to the moon—and the mathematicians, designers and inventors who brought it to life