SCIENCE / History

The American Phage Group

Founders of Molecular Biology

by William C. Summers

Pathologies of Motion

Historical Thinking in Medicine, Aesthetics, and Poetics

The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History

by Kevis Goodman

A Beautiful Ending

The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern World

by John Jeffries Martin

Ancient DNA

The Making of a Celebrity Science

by Elizabeth D Jones

Generations of Reason

A Family’s Search for Meaning in Post-Newtonian England

by Joan L. Richards

The Science of Abolition

How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress

by Eric Herschthal

Minerva's French Sisters

Women of Science in Enlightenment France

by Nina Rattner Gelbart

Celestial Mirror

The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh II

by Barry Perlus

Epidemics and Society

From the Black Death to the Present

The Open Yale Courses Series

by Frank M. Snowden

The Clock Mirage

Our Myth of Measured Time

by Joseph Mazur

The Anthropocene and the Humanities

From Climate Change to a New Age of Sustainability

by Carolyn Merchant

Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider

How Scientific Names Celebrate Adventurers, Heroes, and Even a Few Scoundrels

by Stephen B. Heard

Illustrated by Emily S. Damstra

The Misinformation Age

How False Beliefs Spread

by Cailin O'Connor and James Owen Weatherall

How to Find a Higgs Boson—and Other Big Mysteries in the World of the Very Small

by Ivo van Vulpen

Translated by David McKay

Illustrated by Serena Oggero

Dispatches from Planet 3

Thirty-Two (Brief) Tales on the Solar System, the Milky Way, and Beyond

by Marcia Bartusiak

The Secret Poisoner

A Century of Murder

by Linda Stratmann