Telmo Pievani’s provocative book "Serendipity" integrates literature, philosophy, and science to explore an idea crucial to scientific discovery. Pievani notes that in the Persian fairy tale “The Three Princes of Serendip,”... Read More

"The Worst Journey in the World" is a graphic novel adaptation of Apsley Cherry-Garrard’s memoir about an ill-fated voyage to Antarctica. In 1910, Cherry-Garrard signed on as assistant zoologist on Robert F. Scott’s mission to... Read More

Scholar Jordan D. Rosenblum’s fascinating text "Forbidden" is a history of how the pig became the litmus test for Jewish identity. In accordance with biblical dietary laws, the pig is only one non-kosher animal out of many. Still, it... Read More

The fictions that underlie racism and how they affect the way Americans perceive reality are dissected in Sarah Lewis’s eye-opening history text, "The Unseen Truth". In his 1861 speech “Pictures and Progress,” Frederick Douglass... Read More

A single witch’s story serves as the entry point for a history of the practice in Lindsay Squire’s graphic novel "Witchcraft". Biddy Early, called Ireland’s most famous witch, practices her craft during the nineteenth century,... Read More

A story of a community’s hardiness, willpower, and perseverance, New Iceland and Beyond extols the successes of a generation of Canadian settlers. Robert C. A. Frederickson’s New Iceland and Beyond is a stirring history of an unsung... Read More

An intrepid, boundary-breaking reporter investigates a terrible maritime collision in the riveting historical novel "The Woman Reporter and the Halifax Explosion". In Michael Dupuis’s historical novel "The Woman Reporter and the... Read More

"Disney In-Between" is a exhaustive account of the company’s two-decade transformation, starting with the 1966 death of Walt Disney. Stephen Anderson’s encyclopedic book "Disney In-Between" covers the history of the Walt Disney... Read More