Collection: Non-Fiction's

  • Pursuing the American Dream: Tucson Chinese-Owned Grocery Stores By Howard J. Eng

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    During the gold rush era in California (1848–1855), the Chinese referred to the United States as “Gold Mountain” or “Gam Saan” in Cantonese, a name inspired...

  • They Had Names: Tracing the History of the North American Indigenous People By Nathaniel T. Jeanson

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    Enjoy an easy-to-read and profound exploration of how early people groups and tribes moved across North America using DNA evidence, archaeology, language studies, and biblical insights....

  • American Square: The Rise and Fall of a Modern-Day Camelot By J Reece

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    Based on a true story, American Square: The Rise and Fall of a Modern-Day Camelot is the memoir of J. Maurice Banks as he moved from...

  • Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence By Jens Ludwig

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    What if everything we understood about gun violence was wrong? In 2007, economist Jens Ludwig moved to the South Side of Chicago to research two big questions:...

  • From Mar-a-Lago to MARS: President Trump's Great American Comeback By Nick Adams

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    President Donald Trump is a revolutionary figure in American politics. 2016 was the 1776 of our generation and 2024 was our greatest victory ever!  Unfortunately for patriotic...

  • Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy By Katherine Stewart

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    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the acclaimed author of The Power Worshippers, “an indispensable citizen's guide to the anti-democratic MAGA Right.” -Congressman Jamie Raskin“An eerily prescient...

  • American Girls in Popular Media: A Cultural History of Preadolescent Girls, 1890–1945 By Stella A. Ress

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    The appearance of high-profile girl characters in popular culture media of all types soared between the years 1924, when Little Orphan Annie first appeared in the comic section...

  • A Billion Butterflies: A Life in Climate and Chaos Theory By Jagadish Shukla

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    The amazing true story of the man behind modern weather predictionConsider a world without weather prediction. How would we know when to evacuate communities ahead of...

  • Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America By Bridget Read

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    A “gripping” (The Washington Post) work of history and reportage that unveils the stranger-than-fiction world of multilevel marketing: a massive money-making scam and radical political conspiracy...

  • Gems of American History: The Lecturer's Art By Walter McDougall

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    The American story is one of great physical, intellectual, and spiritual adventure. Gems of American History explores how this extraordinary republic came to be—and what is required to...

  • Booster Shots: The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health By Adam Ratner

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    A pediatrician and infectious disease specialist warns of the resurgence of measles, the antivaccine movement, and how we can prepare for the next pandemicEvery single child...

  • Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America By Elie Mystal

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    In this New York Times bestseller, Elie Mystal offers a brilliant takedown of ten shocking pieces of legislation that continue to perpetuate hate, racial bias, injustice, and inequality...

  • Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men By Patricia Owens

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    How a field built on the intellectual labor and expertise of women erased themThe academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a...

  • How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide By Vaclav Smil

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    "Vaclav Smil is my favorite author."—Bill GatesAn indispensable analysis of how the world really produces and consumes its food—and a scientist's exploration of how we can...

  • How to Be Enough: Self-Acceptance for Self-Critics and Perfectionists By Ellen Hendriksen

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    Are you your own toughest critic? Learn to be good to yourself with this clear and compassionate guide.Do you set demanding standards for yourself? If so,...

  • Authority: Essays By Andrea Long Chu

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    Many worry that criticism is suffering from a crisis of authority. In a world where everyone’s a critic, what is criticism for? Since her canonical 2018...

  • School of Woke: How Critical Race Theory Infiltrated American Schools and Why We Must Reclaim Them By Kenny Xu

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    From one of America’s most relentless critics of Critical Race Theory comes this far-reaching, on-the-ground investigation of how CRT infiltrated our public schools and transformed them...

  • Personhood: The New Civil War Over Reproduction By Mary Ziegler

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    The next phase of the war over reproduction in America “Personhood is a field guide to the seemingly boundless tactical resourcefulness of the anti-abortion movement.”—Margaret Talbot, New Yorker What’s next...

  • Trauma Plot: A Life By Jamie Hood

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    From a rising literary star and the author of how to be a good girl comes a brilliant, biting, and beautifully wrought memoir of trauma and the...

  • Voices from the Great War Women's Land Army By Helen Frost

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    Great War Land Girls were all very different individuals - they radiated vitality, resolve and determination. In this book, their sense of fun and infectious humour...

  • Why Religion Went Obsolete: The Demise of Traditional Faith in America By Christian Smith

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    Is traditional American religion doomed?Traditional religion in the United States has suffered huge losses in recent decades. The number of Americans identifying as "not religious" has...

  • No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce By Haley Mlotek

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    A Vogue & Vulture Best Book of the Year (So Far)“Enigmatic, opalescent, so precise.” —Jia Tolentino“An investigation, an invocation, a mood.” —Becca Rothfeld, The Washington Post“A personal accounting of heartache. . ....

  • The Enduring Hold of Islam in Turkey: The Revival of the Religious Orders and Rise of Erdoğan By David S. Tonge

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    This is the first account in English of how Islamic religious orders dating back to Ottoman times have risen to dominate and define the future of...

  • Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult By Raphael Cormack

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    An international history of the uncanny in the 1920s and 1930s. The interwar period was a golden age for the occult. Spiritualists, clairvoyants, fakirs, Theosophists, mind...