Brian Greene
The international bestseller that inspired a major Nova special and sparked a new understanding of the universe, now with a new preface and epilogue.More
Harold Varmus
A Nobel Prize–winning cancer biologist, leader of major scientific institutions, and scientific adviser to President Obama reflects on his remarkable career.More
Annette Gordon-Reed
Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: “[A] commanding and important book.”—Jill Lepore, The New YorkerMore
Michael K. Honey
The definitive history of the epic struggle for economic justice that became Martin Luther King Jr.'s last crusade.More
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
"A brilliant and readable book...a rich study of humankind's restless spirit."—Candice Millard, New York Times Book ReviewMore
Sean B. Carroll
DNA evidence not only solves crimes—in Sean Carroll's hands it will now end the Evolution Wars.More
David Blackbourn
"Brilliantly conceived....[A] tour de force in historical writing."—Ian KershawMore
Suzanne Lebsock
"[Makes] history, with all its messiness, ugliness, and even humanity, come vividly alive."—Chicago TribuneMore
Paul Celan, John Felstiner
The most wide-ranging volume of the work of Europe's leading postwar poet, including previously unpublished writings.More
Brian Ascalon Roley
A powerful novel about ethnically fluid California, and the corrosive relationship between two Filipino brothers.More
John W. Dower
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II.More
Jared Diamond
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.More
Kip S. Thorne, Stephen W. Hawking
Ever since Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity burst upon the world in 1915 some of the most brilliant minds of our century have sought to decipher the mysteries bequeathed by that theory, a legacy so unthinkable in some respects that even Einstein himself rejected them.More
Stephen Jay Gould
"Lively and fascinating. . . . [Gould] writes beautifully about science and the wonders of nature."—Tracy KidderMore
Stephen Jay Gould
"[An] extraordinary book. . . . Mr. Gould is an exceptional combination of scientist and science writer. . . . He is thus exceptionally well placed to tell these stories, and he tells them with fervor and intelligence."—James Gleick, New York Times Book ReviewMore