Nonfiction

The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money

How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life

You Had a Job for Life: Story of a Company Town

Engagement Organizing: The Old Art and New Science of Winning Campaigns

Emerging Nature: Precursor of Architecture and Design

Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy

Guide to Financial Markets: Why They Exist and How They Work

Vanished!: America’s Most Mysterious Kidnappings, Castaways, and the Forever Lost

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

Freud: The Making of an Illusion

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