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Botany and Gardening

    A Splendour of Succulents & Cacti
    The Greater Perfection
    Things to Do with Plants
    Kew Pocketbooks: Orchids
    Yew
    The Beauty of the Flower
    In the Name of Plants
    Kew Pocketbooks: Mexican Plants
    The Kew Sketch Journal
    Kew Pocketbooks: Trees
    Mushrooms
    Hello Kew
    Rowan
    Chasing Plants
    Carnivorous Plants

    Cultural Histories

      Wanderers
      The Worst Military Leaders in History
      Shells
      Arc of Feeling
      Stones
      Avian Illuminations
      The Greatest Shows on Earth
      The Pirates’ Code
      Astray

      Space and Planetary Science

        Soviets in Space
        What’s Eating the Universe?
        Simulating the Cosmos
        Uranus and Neptune
        Jupiter
        Phenomena
        Shaping Science

        Cooking, Food, and Travel

          Why Fast?
          The Food Adventurers
          Hong Kong Foodways
          Churchill’s Britain
          Breakfast Cereal
          Botany of the Kitchen Garden
          The Big Jones Cookbook
          Iran
          The Serpent Coiled in Naples
          Soda and Fizzy Drinks
          The Kew Gardens Cookbook
          In Defense of Processed Food
          Coconut
          Chaucer’s Italy
          Fish and Chips
          The View from the Hill
          Cod
          Dinner in Rome

          Biography and Memoir

            Richard Owen
            Gossip Men
            Byron
            To Live Is to Resist
            Escape to Gwrych Castle
            Exquisite Dreams
            On Not Knowing
            Ford Madox Ford
            H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
            The Subversive Simone Weil

            American History

              Making Mexican Chicago
              The Great American Transit Disaster
              The Lies of the Land
              Presidents and Their Books
              Travelers, Tracks, and Tycoons: The Railroad in American Legend and Life
              Pulp Empire
              The Bonds of Inequality
              In Levittown’s Shadow
              City of Newsmen
              A Conspiratorial Life
              Lydia Maria Child
              Banking on Slavery
              The Nation That Never Was
              Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print
              Saul Alinsky and the Dilemmas of Race
              You Had a Job for Life
              Flowers, Guns, and Money
              Radicals and Rogues
              Popularizing the Past

              European History

                The English Actor
                The English Soul
                Decadent Women
                The Miniature Library of Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House
                Serving the Reich
                The Men of 1924
                A Short History of Finland
                Napoleon at Peace
                How the Spanish Empire Was Built
                The Last Consolation Vanished
                Land of Shame and Glory
                The Queen’s Dolls’ House
                Defying Hitler
                Navigations
                Libertine London
                Hitler’s Tyranny
                Rommel
                Incomparable Realms
                D-Day Through French Eyes
                A Monarch in the Making
                The Queen: 70 Glorious Years
                Charles IV

                World History

                  An Armchair Traveller’s History of the Silk Road
                  The Globe
                  Afghanistan
                  American Imperialist
                  Ashoka and the Maurya Dynasty

                  Cartography

                    A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps
                    The Eternal City
                    "Westward the Course of Empire"
                    A History of America in 100 Maps
                    The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China
                    Time in Maps

                    Medieval and Renaissance History

                      Alle Thyng Hath Tyme
                      Bede and the Theory of Everything
                      Francis of Assisi
                      Basilisks and Beowulf
                      The Fires of Lust
                      The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe
                      Libraries and Books in Medieval England
                      Introducing the Medieval Fox

                      Art

                        Sonya Clark
                        The Varnish and the Glaze
                        Woven Histories
                        Harmonia Rosales
                        Santiago Calatrava in the Glyptothek
                        Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects
                        Käthe Kollwitz
                        Heinrich Campendonk
                        Frida Kahlo
                        Perfect Wave
                        Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys
                        Olga Costa
                        The Portraitist
                        National Museum of Women in the Arts
                        HR Giger
                        Agnes Pelton
                        Funk You Too!

                        Just for Fun

                          Better Bed Manners
                          A Christmas Carol
                          Aesop’s Fables
                          Gifts & Books
                          Tinker to Evers to Chance
                          Coloring St. Louis

                          Architecture and Photography

                            Inventing Photography
                            Dark Room
                            The Advanced School of Collective Feeling
                            Baroque Architecture in Bohemia
                            The Historic Heart of Oxford University
                            Baroque Prague

                            Fashion, Design, and Music

                              Lamestains
                              Living Metal
                              Song and Self
                              Merchants of Style
                              Pazazz
                              The Book by Design
                              Style & Society
                              Animated Advertising
                              A Cultural History of The Punisher

                              Sports and Recreation

                                In Praise of the Bicycle
                                The Hidden Game of Football
                                Get in the Game
                                Formula 1
                                Bugatti
                                Games People Played
                                Forty Six

                                Ocean and Conservation Science

                                  The Nutmeg’s Curse
                                  Water Always Wins
                                  Downriver
                                  The Sloth Lemur’s Song
                                  Fascinating Shells
                                  Enchanted Forests
                                  Water Beings
                                  From the Seashore to the Seafloor
                                  Return to My Trees

                                  Animal and Biological Science

                                    Platypus Matters
                                    Worm
                                    Power in the Wild
                                    Audubon at Sea
                                    Journeys with Emperors
                                    The Book of Snakes
                                    Sloth
                                    Robin

                                    History of Science and Medicine

                                      The Huxleys
                                      The Curious History of Weights & Measures
                                      How the Clinic Made Gender
                                      Stethoscope
                                      Catastrophic Thinking
                                      Nuclear Minds

                                      Philosophy and Religion

                                        Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy
                                        The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter
                                        Alone
                                        Wisdom from the Ancients
                                        A Swedenborg Perpetual Calendar
                                        Temptation Transformed

                                        Ancient History

                                          Gladius
                                          The Inca
                                          The Maya
                                          The Persians
                                          Homer
                                          The Etruscans
                                          Laughing Shall I Die
                                          The Hittites

                                          Literature and Criticism

                                            Pinocchio
                                            Way Makers
                                            24 Hours with Gaspar
                                            Is There God after Prince?
                                            The Lost Princess
                                            The Lamb Cycle
                                            Pilgrims 2.0
                                            On the Way to the End of the World
                                            30 April 1945
                                            Anyone Who Utters a Consoling Word Is a Traitor
                                            Novels by Aliens
                                            just sitting around here GRUESOMELY now
                                            Keats’s Odes
                                            Permanent Crisis
                                            The Making of Shakespeare’s First Folio
                                            Handwritten

                                            Economics

                                              Hayek
                                              The Federal Reserve
                                              The Return of Inflation
                                              The Ends of Freedom
                                              The Money Illusion
                                              Liberalism’s Last Man

                                              Political and Social Science

                                                Justice by Means of Democracy
                                                Black in White Space
                                                Deep South
                                                Democracy for Busy People
                                                The Paradox of Democracy
                                                Lesbians on Television
                                                Performance All the Way Down
                                                The Accidental Equalizer
                                                Born This Way

                                                British History

                                                  The English Actor
                                                  Outrageous!
                                                  Pet Revolution
                                                  About England
                                                  A Monarch in the Making
                                                  The Queen: 70 Glorious Years

                                                  Russian. Ukrainian, and Baltic History

                                                    Black Earth
                                                    Troubled Water
                                                    Riddle, Mystery, and Enigma
                                                    In Search of Tito’s Punks
                                                    The Ruling Families of Rus
                                                    Ukraine

                                                    Recent and Bestselling Books

                                                      Otter
                                                      Black in White Space
                                                      The Bridge on the Drina
                                                      The Daily Jane Austen
                                                      Olmsted Trees
                                                      Reynard the Fox
                                                      Beyond Weird
                                                      Fermented Foods
                                                      Cancel Wars
                                                      A Conspiracy of Ravens
                                                      None of Your Damn Business
                                                      A Brief History of Nakedness
                                                      The Sumerians
                                                      Becoming a Historian
                                                      Dangerous Fun
                                                      How Schools Really Matter
                                                      The Daily Sherlock Holmes
                                                      Waters of the World
                                                      Distant Melodies
                                                      Democratize Work
                                                      Capitalism and Freedom
                                                      Partition
                                                      The Guitar
                                                      The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected
                                                      Ornette Coleman
                                                      A Short History of Tomb-Raiding
                                                      Vincent’s Books
                                                      Storycraft, Second Edition
                                                      Song Noir
                                                      The Road to Serfdom
                                                      Hayek vs Keynes
                                                      Radical American Partisanship
                                                      Tales of the Prague Ghetto
                                                      Russia Container
                                                      Extraordinary Orchids
                                                      I’d Fight the World
                                                      The Goddess
                                                      Wild Thought
                                                      Tropical Arctic
                                                      Dog
                                                      Dark Lens
                                                      Where the Rivers Flow North
                                                      Unworking
                                                      Street Scriptures
                                                      Freedom Seekers
                                                      The World of Dinosaurs
                                                      Hans Holbein
                                                      The Beat Cop
                                                      Strata
                                                      Winters in the World
                                                      The Pleasure’s All Mine
                                                      Dogopolis
                                                      Great Literary Friendships
                                                      Redefining Geek
                                                      Oishii
                                                      How to Make a Vaccine
                                                      The Thinking Student’s Guide to College
                                                      Sheer Misery
                                                      Gustav Klimt
                                                      Invisible China
                                                      The Conspiracy Trial of the Chicago Seven
                                                      Doodling for Academics
                                                      Venus
                                                      Backflash
                                                      Comeback
                                                      Firebreak
                                                      Flashfire
                                                      The Man with the Getaway Face
                                                      Nobody Runs Forever
                                                      The Outfit
                                                      The Score
                                                      Slayground
                                                      Sound Experiments
                                                      Fairies
                                                      Foxconned
                                                      But Can I Start a Sentence with "But"?
                                                      The Daily Henry David Thoreau
                                                      Just the Job
                                                      Information Now, Second Edition
                                                      Wine
                                                      Paul Cézanne
                                                      Race at the Top
                                                      Eaters of the Dead
                                                      Eleven-Inch

                                                      Reference and Language

                                                        The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking, Second Edition
                                                        Verified
                                                        A Date with Language
                                                        "The Girl in the Window" and Other True Tales
                                                        Taming the Tongue in the Heyday of English Grammar (1711–1851)
                                                        TL;DR
                                                        The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook
                                                        The Chicago Guide to Copyediting Fiction
                                                        The Art of Verbal Warfare

                                                        New and Noteworthy

                                                          How to Think like a Philosopher
                                                          Beautiful Experiments
                                                          The Book of Minds
                                                          The Elements
                                                          How Life Works
                                                          The Lost Subways of North America
                                                          Rethinking Hypothyroidism
                                                          Deep Water
                                                          American Born
                                                          Chicago Reflected
                                                          On Christopher Street
                                                          The Gardener’s Guide to Prairie Plants
                                                          George Meléndez Wright
                                                          Midwestern Food
                                                          The Visual Elements—Photography
                                                          The Cult of Creativity
                                                          Everyone against Us
                                                          Country and Midwestern
                                                          Bird Day
                                                          When the News Broke
                                                          A Book of Noises
                                                          The Science of Reading
                                                          Who Is the City For?
                                                          The Two-Parent Privilege
                                                          Ocean Bestiary
                                                          Life Sculpted
                                                          The Capital Order
                                                          The Next Supercontinent
                                                          The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America
                                                          Sins of the Shovel
                                                          The Apple II Age
                                                          Mountains of Fire
                                                          Fit Nation
                                                          Who’s a Good Dog?
                                                          Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms
                                                          Rome as a Guide to the Good Life
                                                          Vincent’s Arles
                                                          For the Love of Mars
                                                          Trees
                                                          Dream Street
                                                          The Jazz Loft Project
                                                          Every Goddamn Day
                                                          The Chieftain and the Chair
                                                          The Philosopher of Palo Alto
                                                          Hilma af Klint
                                                          The Black Ceiling

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