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Browse for the best in everything from Architecture to Zoology. Wherever your interests lie, you'll find the perfect book in our nonfiction highlights.
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American Foreign Policy in Retreat
Written by Vali Nasr
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $28.95
In a brilliant and revealing book destined to drive debate about the future of American power, Vali Nasr questions America’s dangerous choice to engage less and matter less in the world.
Vali Nasr, author of the groundbreaking The Shia Revival, worked closely with Hillary Clinton at the State Department on Afghan... Read more >
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Evolution, Health, and Disease
Written by Daniel Lieberman
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Price: $27.95
In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Lieberman—chair of the department of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a leader in the field—gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years, even as it shows how the increasing disparity between... Read more >
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How We Took to the Air
Written by Richard Holmes
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: October 29, 2013
Price: $35.00
Falling Upwards tells the story of the enigmatic group of men and women who first risked their lives to take to the air, and so discovered a new dimension of human experience. Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our... Read more >
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Written by Nora Ephron
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
On Sale: October 29, 2013
Price: $35.00
A whopping big celebration of the work of the late, great Nora Ephron, America’s funniest—and most acute—writer, famous for her brilliant takes on life as we’ve been living it these last forty years.
Everything you could possibly want from Nora Ephron is here—from her writings on journalism, feminism, and being a...
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The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
Written by Jung Chang
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: October 29, 2013
Price: $30.00
Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age.
At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as one of the emperor’s numerous concubines. When he died...
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The Need for Knowledge-Based Journalism
Written by Thomas E. Patterson
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 8, 2013
Price: $15.00
As the journalist Walter Lippmann noted nearly a century ago, democracy falters “if there is no steady supply of trustworthy and relevant news.” Today’s journalists are not providing it. Too often, reporters give equal weight to facts and biased opinion, stir up small controversies, and substitute infotainment for real news. Even...
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The Deep History of the Human Body
Written by Neil Shubin
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: October 8, 2013
Price: $15.95
In The Universe Within, Neil Shubin reveals the connection between the evolution of the cosmos and the evolution of the human body.
Just as the history of the earth is written in the rocks, so too is the universe’s 14-billion-year history written in the human body. Starting at the smallest level...
