Using Amish Mafia as a window into the interplay between the real and the imagined, this book dis...

Since their classic volume The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes was published in 1978, Juan J. Lin...

'A fascinating journey into the bizarre, subatomic world of particle physics.' -- PhysOrg.com

Streamliner is an important and engaging work on one of the longest-lived careers in industrial d...

In 1994, Peter J. Hotez's nineteen-month-old daughter, Rachel, was diagnosed with autism. Dr. Hot...

Traces the history of the study of tumor viruses and its role in driving breakthroughs in cancer ...

The late twentieth century is trumpeted as the Information Age by pundits and politicians alike, ...

Over the past century, new farming methods, feed additives, and social and economic structures ha...

The essential guide to the hardest job in higher ed.

Among the most dramatic problems faced on the Italian peninsula in the fourteenth century were th...

Kalief Browder was 16 when he was arrested in the Bronx for allegedly stealing a backpack. Unable...

How did news from the East--carried in ship logs and mariners' reports, journals, and corresponde...

Lured by a top academic position sponsored by the Prussian Academy of Sciences, Albert Einstein m...

Tackling a complex topic in clear language, the book reveals the impressive scale of patenting, l...

In September 1868, the remains of Jacob and Nancy Jane Young were found lying near the banks of I...

There seems to be widespread agreement that--when it comes to the writing skills of college stude...

In 1956 Mencken could look back on a long and distinguished career that included years at the top...

Beyond the Black Box shows how crash investigators use physics, aerodynamics, and mechanical engi...

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On April 12, 1954, the nation was astonished to learn that J. Robert Oppenheimer was facing charg...

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My Quest for Health Equity is a vital resource for current and rising leaders.

The intriguing and sometimes surprising information she presents will be valued by historians of ...

'Harley was an iconoclast, subverting traditional approaches to map-making by drawing together ar...

A leading figure in immunology takes readers inside the remarkably powerful human immune system.

American college teaching is in crisis, or so we are told. But we've heard that complaint for the...

By the acclaimed journalist and bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,this d...

'In an epic investigation spread across fifteen years, Deer battles medical secrecy and insider c...

How did the ancient Greeks and Romans envision the end of the world?

For caregivers of deeply forgetful people: a book that combines new ethics guidelines with an inn...

A revealing look at the changing role of churches in the decades after the American Revolution.

A fascinating revisionist history, Sustaining Empire challenges long-standing assertions that thi...

Informing vivid biographical sketches with a wide range of recent scholarship, The Wilson Circle ...

Readers interested in vintage computing, the history of technology, digital rhetoric, or American...

The first comprehensive, empirically grounded, and independent study of the history of the IAEA.

How did a young generation of activists come together in 1990s Los Angeles to shake up the educat...

A fascinating look at how a commercial market for birds in the late nineteenth century set the st...

An absorbing account of how two Jewish brothers devoted themselves to the struggle for racial equ...

The remote work revolution presents a unique opportunity for higher education institutions to rei...

A history of Washington National Cathedral and the theory of an American civil religion.

How do we balance freedom with the responsibilities we owe each other as members of society?

How Stephen Jay Gould's career illustrates that criticizing science is important for American dem...

A radical exploration of how higher education can advance transformative climate justice.

Why is the metaphor of the 'Founding Fathers' so insidious-and how does it impact American politics?

'This work is the first in a three-book series that will observe the past and the future of publi...

'This book is designed to tell the complex story of the changing place of religion in American hi...

A corrective history of the essential role that Black women played in the early Black press.

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