A Walk Around the Block succeeds in making the mundane fascinating, opening our minds (and front doors) to an everyday world easily taken for granted.
Keep a copy of The Backyard Birdwatcher’s Bible close at hand, and you’ll be more than ready to identify your own winged guests.
Open Studio shows that getting creative is easy—especially when you can take cues from world-class artists.
In precise yet passionate prose, Delphine Minoui tells this remarkable story of a group of book-rescuing rebels under siege in Syria.
In The Woman Who Stole Vermeer, Anthony M. Amore expertly combines extraordinary history with gripping true crime.
The most illuminating parts of The Sediments of Time recount the years Meave Leakey spent hunting for the fossilized remains of our species’ precursors.
For decades, rumors suggested that a Harvard archeology professor had killed his student. Becky Cooper finally decided to find out.
In Magic: A History, Oxford professor of archaeology Chris Gosden treats readers to a history of humanity through the lens of magic.
In this compilation of magazine columns, Rick Bragg’s voice is as rich as ever as he finds fresh ways of telling stories both hilarious and poignant.
With scalpel-like precision, anthropologist Eben Kirksey carves away at the ethics of new scientific advancements in The Mutant Project.
In Paper Bullets, Jeffrey H. Jackson unearths the fascinating story of two women and artists who resisted in the face of the Nazi regime.
Lisa Robinson offers a panoramic view of the women rockers she’s interviewed over the course of her decadeslong career in Nobody Ever Asked Me About the Girls.
Christa Parravani’s new memoir, Loved and Wanted, situates the narrative of her unexpected pregnancy within the context of reproductive journalism and research.
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