History
O Say Can You Hear?: A Cultural Biography of "The Star-Spangled Banner"
Hardback
The fascinating story of America’s national anthem and a search for the source of its powerful meaning today
American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850
Paperback
From a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, the powerful story of a precarious United States as it expands across a contested continent
Ravenous: Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection
Paperback
The extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat—and what it means for how we should.
The Best Medicine: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future
Paperback
The fight against child mortality that transformed parenting, doctoring and the way we live
Extreme North: A Cultural History
Hardback
An entertaining and informative voyage through cultural fantasies of the North, from sea monsters and a mountain-sized magnet to racist mythmaking