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Don Brown

Fever Year

From the Sibert Honor--winning creator behind The Unwanted and Drowned Citycomes one of the darkest episodes in American history: the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918. This nonfiction graphic novel expl…

Songs of Liberation in the Netherlands

When the Allied Forces arrived in the Netherlands after Operation Market Garden, the country's long-awaited liberation from National Socialist occupation finally came in the summer of 1945. With freedom r…

Science Fiction Classics Box: II

Rebecca Donnelly,

Change Is in the Air: The Hidden Discoveries of Eunice Newton Foote, the First Climate Scientist

¿ "A decidedly tardy tribute to a brilliant 19th-century scientist and suffragist...A nuanced portrait of a woman who was ahead of her times in more ways than one." -Kirkus, starred review This …

Campbell Books,

Scientists

A novelty board book for preschoolers, introducing them to scientists who changed the world.

Emily Arnold Mccully

The Eclipse of 1919

From his earliest days as a child, Albert Einstein was fascinated with the relationship between light and gravity. He couldn't stop thinking about the laws of the universe, and was determined to describe …

Lori Alexander,

Seeds of Discovery

A biography on Barbara McClintock, a stubbornly self-motivated researcher who, through decades of study, revolutionized our understanding of genetics.

Anita Sanchez

The Monkey Trial

The riveting examination of the notorious trial of a teacher whose arrest for teaching science reverberates to this day.Highlighting the quiet dignity of a teacher who stood up for his students' right to …

Kyama Mugambi, Mark Shaw,

Christians in the City of Nairobi

This book examines the diverse expressions of Christianity in Nairobi, a vital centre of a new global Christian pluralism, where 85% of inhabitants claim allegiance to one of the thousands of different Ch…

Michael O Emerson, Christian Smith

Divided by Faith

First published in 2000, Divided by Faith has become a landmark book for understanding race and religion in the United States. Drawing on a nationwide telephone survey of two thousand people and an additi…

Michael O Emerson, Christian Smith

Divided by Faith

First published in 2000, Divided by Faith has become a landmark book for understanding race and religion in the United States. This second edition has been thoroughly overhauled with updated statistics an…

Scott Latta

Gods of the Smoke Machine

We are entering a new era of religion in America: For the first time, fewer than half the country belongs to a church. > Megachurch pastors have never been more influential--with media empires, network…

Mukesh Kumar

Between Muslim Pīr and Hindu Saint

This book explores the changing form of religious culture in the Mewat region of north India.

David Stuart

The Four Heavens

From the world-leading expert on the Maya, a monumental history of a flourishing civilization across three millenniaThe Four Heavens brings to life the cultural and visual splendor of the ancient Maya, dr…

Jacob Dlamini

Dying for Freedom

What happens when death becomes the ultimate marker of one's commitment to one's freedom? What happens when the opposite of freedom is not unfreedom but death, not slavery but mortality? How are we to thi…

Stéphan de Beer,

Christians in the Cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria

Looks at Christianity in the megacity of Johannesburg-Pretoria - exploring how it has shaped the city and its society.

Jacob Dlamini

Dying for Freedom

What happens when death becomes the ultimate marker of one's commitment to one's freedom? What happens when the opposite of freedom is not unfreedom but death, not slavery but mortality? How are we to thi…

Tim Alberta

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory

InstantNew York TimesBestsellerOne of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the YearAn Economist and Air Mail Best Book of the Year"Brave and absorbing." -- New York Times"Alberta is not just a …

Henryk Szlajfer

Jews and New Christians in the Making of the Atlantic World in the 16th-17th Centuries

Amsterdam Jews appeared up to the mid-17th century as Braudelian "great Jewish merchants." However, the New Christians, heretic judaizantes in the eyes of the Inquisition, dispersed around the w…