Detailed and expressive, the biographical novellas of "Raising Genius" muse through parental influences on creative minds. Dramatizing the early childhoods and complicated family lives of three world-renowned visionaries, Nam Nguyen’s... Read More

Drawing on intimate gossip and rigorous critical scholarship, Todd Goddard’s "Devouring Time" is the first full-scale biography of Jim Harrison, the mold-breaking and large-living man of letters who transformed the literary landscape... Read More

"Encounter Grace" is a pragmatic, navigable workbook of microexercises for prayer that leaves open different possibilities for interacting with the divine. Grounded in the imaginative spiritual exercises of Ignatius Loyola and the... Read More

The essays from leading tree scientists collected in "In the Circle of Ancient Trees" read like fervent love letters to ten of the most ancient and important tree species on the planet. Dendrochronology, or the study of tree rings to... Read More

Establishing a place in the scientific annals for one of photography’s most underappreciated pioneers, Corey Keller’s intimate biography of Anna Atkins reveals a remarkable, unorthodox Victorian scientist. Atkins, the creator of the... Read More

Astrobiologist Jon Willis’s "The Pale Blue Data Point" investigates the diverse paths through which scientists have attempted to discover extraterrestrial life. Beginning with the ancient question of the existence of life-forms beyond... Read More

Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean, Dagomar Degroot’s sweeping history of human encounters with the solar system, is an unconventional, moving account of how Earth’s cosmic neighborhood shaped human existence. A mixture of intertwined... Read More

Challenging the popular conception that asteroid impacts caused the extinction of dinosaurs, "The Last Extinction" is Gerta Keller’s reflection on one of the nastiest controversies in the modern history of the earth sciences. Equal... Read More