Eric Hinderaker (Author)Eric Hinderaker is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Utah. He previously contributed to The Oxford Handbook of the Seven Years' War.Rebecca Horn (Author)Rebecca Horn is Associate Professor of History at the University of Utah. She has previously contributed to Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America.

An in-depth history of the pivotal event in Colonial America, as well as its causes, competing narratives, and evolving memories.On the night of March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd gathered in front of Boston's Custom House, killing five people. Denounced as an act of unprovoked violence and villainy, the event that came to be known as the Boston Massacre is one of the most familiar incidents in American history, yet one of the least understood. Eric ...

In September 1755, the most famous Indian in the world—a Mohawk leader known in English as King Hendrick—died in the Battle of Lake George. He was fighting the French in defense of British claims to North America, and his death marked the end of an era in Anglo-Iroquois relations. He was not the first Mohawk of that name to attract international attention. Half a century earlier, another Hendrick worked with powerful leaders in the frontier town of Albany. He cemented his transatlantic fam...

The Seven Years' War (1754–1763) was a pivotal event in the history of the Atlantic world. Perspectives on the significance of the war and its aftermath varied considerably from different cultural vantage points. Northern and western Indians, European imperial authorities, and their colonial counterparts understood and experienced the war (known in the United States as the French and Indian War) in various ways. In many instances the progress of the conflict was charted by cultural differe...

New York Times Book Review — Editors’ Choice • Chicago Tribune — "60 Best Reads for Right Now" • St. Louis Post-Dispatch — "50 Fall Books You Should Consider Reading"Challenging conventional wisdom, The Cause offers a “necessary” (John S. Gardner, Guardian) account of the origins and clashing ideologies of America’s revolutionary era.For Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Joseph J. Ellis, The C...

Explore and understand the natural and human wonders of our planet.Now, in its third edition, this landmark encyclopedia celebrates our planet and explains the science underpinning the forces and processes that have made and shaped it. Artworks, photographs, terrain models, and maps are combined to capture the power of landscapes and natural events and show their hidden sides, explaining, for example, how an earthquake is triggered and how burning fossil fuels is d...

An essential addition to the Stone Reader series, Question Everything is a groundbreaking collection of philosophical essays from some of our foremost thinkers and storytellers.When The Stone Reader—a landmark collection of 133 essays from the New York Times’ award-winning philosophy column—first published, in 2015, the world urgently needed insight and wisdom, and for many, the book served as a bulwark of reason against the rising tide o...

Math's infinite mysteries unfold in this updated edition of the award-winning The Math Book. Beginning millions of years ago with ancient “ant odometers,” and moving through time to our modern-day quest for higher dimensions, prolific polymath Clifford Pickover covers major milestones in mathematical history. Among the numerous concepts readers will encounter as they dip into this inviting anthology: cicada-generated prime numbers, magic squares, and the butterfly effect. Each top...

Join MI6’s deadliest spy on thrilling missions around the globe. This collection of three original James Bond stories by Ian Fleming, featuring the legendary 007, includes You Only Live Twice, The Man With the Golden Gun, and Octopussy and the Living Daylights.

Join MI6’s deadliest spy on thrilling missions around the globe. This collection of three original James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, featuring the legendary 007, includes Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me, and On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

**Winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Award“[A]n incisive and captivating reassessment of prehistory . . . In lucid prose, Geroulanos unspools an enthralling and detailed history of the development of modern natural science. It’s a must-read.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review“An astute, powerfully rendered history of humanity.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewAn eminent historian tells the story of how we came to obsess over the origi...

Join MI6’s deadliest spy on thrilling missions around the globe. This collection of four original James Bond stories by Ian Fleming, featuring the legendary 007, includes From Russia, With Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, and For Your Eyes Only.