CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
Courts and Congress: America’s Unwritten Constitution
Quirk asserts that the government has lost confidence in the people, citing the shift of decision-making power from Congress to…
Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things
The main character in this chapter book for young readers, Alvin Ho, a Chinese-American second-grader, is afraid of everything —…
Why Spy? Espionage in an Age of Uncertainty
(Thomas Dunne Books) In this primer on espionage, the author traces the careers and pitfalls of infamous spies such as…
The End of Empires: African Americans and India
(Temple University Press) In this history of the relationship between African-Americans and Indians leading up to Indian independence in 1947…
The Darker Mask: Heroes From the Shadows
(Tor) In this collection of illustrated original stories, the writers offer new interpretations of what it means to be a…
The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces
(Basic Books) The author, the winner of the Nobel Prize in physics in 2004, explains the search for what scientists…
A Fish in the Moonlight: Growing Up in the Bone Marrow Unit
(Purdue University Press) The author recounts his experience sharing his childhood stories — about fighting with his brother over a…
The Shadow of Sirius
(Copper Canyon Press) In his latest collection of poetry, which Publishers Weekly called “his best book in a decade —…
Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America
(Collins) Birding expert and editor of Birding Magazine, Floyd packed his book with more than 2,500 photos of birds and…