A compelling corporate-history-cum-guidebook, "Engage!" models business operations in depth for those looking to emulate WD-40’s story of success. Stan Sewitch’s instructive business book "Engage!" chronicles how the WD-40 Company... Read More

"The House of the Future" is an immersive work of architectural history focused on an ingenious midcentury project. From the planning stages to its demolition, David A. Bossert’s in-depth architectural history book "The House of the... Read More

"Let the Playing Field Level the Playing Field" is a speculative technology text that is filled with optimistic predictions about the future. A grand, idealistic technological manifesto, Dennis Joiner’s "Let the Playing Field Level the... Read More

A thorough biography-cum-true-crime book, "Black Postmaster in a White Town" reports on an overlooked nineteenth-century atrocity that affects the victims’ descendants to this day. Fostenia W. Baker’s biography of Frazier Baker,... Read More

Written by an industry insider, "The Limits of Strategy" is an intriguing history of the evolution of computer technology. Ernest von Simson’s "The Limits of Strategy" is a dense insider’s history of the business, marketing, and... Read More

Marcia A. Zug’s detailed social history You’ll Do covers the evolution of marriage via its economic and cultural motivators. Though the book examines other non-romantic motivations for love, such as colonists marrying Indigenous... Read More

Patrick Wohl’s page-turning political history "Down Ballot" covers a suburban Chicago election that drew wide attention because of the candidates’ stances on abortion. In 1990, Illinois House of Representatives incumbent Penny Pullen... Read More