A former boxer crosses paths, and lines, with the notorious Max Baer, in this imaginative semihistorical novel. With "Max Baer and the Star of David", Jay Neugeboren creates a pair of distinctive fictional characters and deposits them... Read More

Authentic, reportorial stories explore diverse articulations of modern Jewish identity. The short-story collection "Verklempt" is Peter Sichrovsky’s first fiction work to be translated into English, and its stories explore modern... Read More

Settings that feel lived in, a nice eye for detail, and a story that’s simple but evocative feed this character-rich first novel. In "Untying the Moon", Ellen Malphrus takes her protagonist Bailey Martin on a long journey of... Read More

Julian M. Allwood and Jonathan M. Cullen, the authors of Sustainable Materials, have engineering backgrounds, and that allows them to discuss an area that doesn’t receive enough attention—making buildings and goods more efficient by... Read More

Two Percent Solutions for the Planet takes a clever approach to environmental problems. Rather than look at overarching solutions, Courtney White compiles fifty examples of effective, relatively small-scale success stories from around... Read More

With "The Heart of Sustainability", Andres R. Edwards offers a philosophical approach to how people should think about sustainability issues. The book often tilts toward the new-age realm, with a focus on theoretical ideas rather than... Read More

That industrial civilizations have altered the Earth and its atmosphere for the worse is beyond doubt, but geoengineering offers possible solutions, using human engineering to improve the climate. In "The Planet Remade", veteran science... Read More

In "Gulf Stream Chronicles", the late David S. Lee describes the great variety of animal life living in and near the gulf-­stream waters off the coast of North Carolina. His essays examine species like the leatherback turtle, pilot... Read More