The thorough scientific manifesto "Truth and Absurdity in Modern Physics" is a refreshing introduction to the opaque features of modern physics and inscrutable controversies in the field. Daniel W. Youngner’s scientific survey "Truth... Read More

Evidence of future influence is sought in a brief survey of humanity’s past in the speculative philosophical tract "The Ape Who Gazed Beyond". Fernando Reich’s "The Ape Who Gazed Beyond" is a meditative, birds-eye narrative of... Read More

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