US Presidents Books
Inside the Lives of America’s Commanders-in-Chief
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. Atlas Books, 2006.
The Disappearing Spoon
And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements. Little, Brown and Company, 2010.
Twice as Hard
The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century. Beacon Press, 2023.
Talking Across the Divide
How to Communicate with People You Disagree with and Maybe Change the World. TarcherPerigee, 2018.
Stuff Matters
Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape Our Man-Made World. Mariner Books, 2015.
Traffic
Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us). Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Uncommon Grounds
The History of Coffee and How It Transformed the World. Basic Books, 2019.
The Games
A Global History of the Olympics. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
The Secret Lives of Color
The Secret Lives of Color. Penguin Books, 2017.
Midnight in Chernobyl
The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster. Transworld Digital, 2019.
The Children of Ash and Elm
A History of the Vikings. Basic Books, 2020.
Muhammad
Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources. Inner Traditions, 2006.
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