Non-fiction

Blockchain

Stephen P. Williams

Blockchain technology is rolling through our culture, with no sign of stopping. Though most associate blockchain with bitcoin, blockchain is expanding from its roots in cryptocurrency to radically tra…


ONE DOLLAR MAN

Ole Sønnichsen

The story of how one man’s pragmatism and headstrong vision overcame political wrangling and helped turn the tide of World War II. On the 28th of May, 1940, the telephone rang at William S. Knudsen’s…


The Queen of Laughs

Stephen Clarke

If there is one thing typically British about Queen Elizabeth II, it’s that she has a sense of humor. It’s not always very subtle, and she laughs loudest at the antics of animals, but she does like to…


Prey

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

In an incisive and timely new book, Ayaan Hirsi Ali argues that immigration and Islam are leading to a significant setback in women’s rights – not just for immigrants, but for all women in liberal dem…


The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate

Nancy Campbell

A vivid and perceptive book, The Library of Ice is about one of our planet’s defining resources. It combines scientific and cultural history with memoir. From the world’s northernmost museum in Greenl…


The White Darkness

David Grann

Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who believed in honor and sacrifice. He was also a man obsessed. He spent his life idolizing Ernest Shackl…


Janet Flanner

Michèle Fitoussi

Janet Flanner’s story is intimately linked to that of the The New Yorker for which she was the Paris correspondent for over half a century. A feminist, lesbian, pacifist, seductress and leading figure…


The Billionaire Raj

James Crabtree

The Billionaire Raj tells the story of the twenty-five years since India opened its economy to the world. It argues that like America before it, it is mid-way through a battle to define how its societ…


The French Revolution

Stephen Clarke

In 1789 almost no one wanted to oust King Louis XVI, let alone guillotine him. People wanted democratic reform within a monarchy, and initially that was what they got. But as power-hungry populists us…