In Lynn Waltz’s Hog Wild: The Battle for Workers’ Rights at the World’s Largest Slaughterhouse, the dangerous and exploitative meat-packing industry receives fresh focus... Read More

"Tales from an Uncertain World" by geologist and science educator L. S. Gardiner details various natural disasters, laced through with scientific explanations, elements of a... Read More

The legend of the man in purple continues, and fans will appreciate Patrick’s scholarly approach. The origin and secrets of one of the world’s longest-running comic-strip... Read More

These voices possess a fragile resilience even as they surrender themselves to fate, new knowledge, and other bodies. Adolescents and adults on the brink of critical... Read More

Combining personal narrative and climate change research, this catastrophic book is capable of shaking the most secure temperament to its core. The best way to look at "China... Read More

In the age of the locavore, Janssen’s text examines the movement from the perspective of the farmer, combining research with incisive, yet practical, analysis. The book begins... Read More

Gentle, lyrical and personal, this firsthand account of climate change will sway skeptics and inspire believers to activism. Cornelia Mutel, an Iowan ecologist, uses "A Sugar... Read More

Edward Hamlin masterfully plays the full spectrum of literary elements and devices to create globe-spanning fictional worlds bursting with color and life in this collection,... Read More

Wise beyond her years, Messitt explores with vivid resonance the failures and triumphs of three South African people. Life in post-apartheid South Africa has created many new... Read More

Ullrich’s photos and essays capture the tension between tradition and modernity in classic state fairs. The idea of a state fair evokes a certain sense of nostalgia, and... Read More

With sensitive, nuanced prose, Milliken engages our empathy for intuitive individuals who are capable of remarkable resilience. The twelve short stories in Kate Milliken’s If... Read More

Brothers William and Henry James are rightfully famous within their respective fields of philosophy/psychology and literature. But their influence on each other is seldom... Read More