Nonfiction

The Election of 1860: A Campaign Fraught with Consequences

Saving K-12: What Happened to Our Public Schools? How Do We Fix Them?

New York Waterways

Betrayal at Bethesda: The Intertwined Fates of James Forrestal, Joseph McCarthy, and John F. Kennedy

Sex and Secularism

Living Emergency: Israel’s Permit Regime in the Occupied West Bank

Our Kind of People: America’s Black Upper Class

Ten Huts

Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change

Midlife: A Philosophical Guide

Rituals & Sabbats: Sacred Rites and Seasonal Celebrations

The Cheapskate’s Handbook: A Guide to the Subtleties, Intricacies, and Pleasures of Being a Tightwad

Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods: Early Humans and the Origins of Religion

The Origin of Others

Hunting El Chapo: The Thrilling Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World's Most Wanted Drug Lord

A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa

Morals and Markets: The Development of Life Insurance in the United States

Mariposas Nocturnas: Moths of Central and South America, A Study in Beauty and Diversity

Seismic City: An Environmental History of San Francisco’s 1906 Earthquake

Dialogues with Jay: On Life and the Afterlife

Pinball Wizards: Jackpots, Drains, and the Cult of the Silver Ball

The Barbarians

The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt

Warner Mifflin: Unflinching Quaker Abolitionist