Historical Books
The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers
For centuries people communicated across distances only as quickly as the fastest ship or horse could travel. Generations of innovators tried and …
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
From the New York Times –bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life , a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas.<…
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
The story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam Higginbotham has written a harrowing and compel…
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest. The "longitude problem" was the thorniest dilemma of the eighteenth century. La…
Hidden Figures
The #1 New York Times Bestseller. Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female mathemati…
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
THE THRILLING ADVENTURES OF LOVELACE AND BABBAGE . . . in which Sydney Padua transforms one of the most compelling scientific collaborations into …
The Wright Brothers
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic st…
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the wa…
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
"Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope ... one of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent years."…
Cryptonomicon
Cryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time periods—World War II and the present. Our 1940s…