Gathering disparate records together, Noel Malcolm’s history text addresses male-male relationships from 1400 to 1750 within their historical context. Analyzing literature, newspapers, and court records to explain what was once called... Read More

Pithy and enchanting, Uta Seeburg’s "How Would You Like Your Mammoth?" covers the advent of cookery in prehistoric and ancient civilizations, showing how food directs people and illuminates societies. Seeburg asserts that food is a... Read More

Robert Aquinas McNally’s "Cast Out of Eden" is a detailed biography of American naturalist and Sierra Club founder John Muir. Born in Scotland, Muir arrived in the United States as a boy. He was brought by his father, who began a farm... Read More

During the final decades of the Soviet Union, the country’s Jewish population was stuck in an impossible situation, unable to practice their religion and also forbidden to leave. Shaul Kelner’s "A Cold War Exodus" shows how a... Read More

"North Star" is an inspiring biography that recognizes the quiet heroism of its subject, a dedicated priest. In "North Star", Yukon Story Laureate John Firth delivers a compassionate portrait of Father Jean-Marie Mouchet, the French... Read More

"Marginal Man" is the thoughtful biography of a controversial but respected immigrant professor. Prompted by a promise to set the record straight about Emilio Goggio’s postwar reputation, "Marginal Man" is Paul Redvers Brown’s... Read More

Infusing engineering history with a sense of intrigue, "A History of the Murray Canal" lays bare the intricacies of the canal’s planning and construction. Dan Buchanan’s engaging history text "A History of the Murray Canal" is a... Read More

A historically insightful memoir, "The Shochet" trades between humorous and grave descriptions of rural Jewish life in nineteenth-century Ukraine. The engrossing memoir of a Hasidic Jew living under the yoke of Tsarist Russia, volume one... Read More