Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette

University of Chicago Press, 2020 Keith Wailoo, the Henry Putnam University Professor of History and Public Affairs Spanning a century, Pushing Cool reveals how the twin deceptions of health and Black affinity for menthol were Continue Reading →

Cosmology’s Century: An Inside History of Our Modern Understanding of the Universe

Princeton University Press, 2020 P. James E. Peebles, the Albert Einstein Professor of Science, Emeritus Modern cosmology began a century ago with Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity and his notion of a homogenous, philosophically Continue Reading →

Magical Habits

Duke University Press, 2021 Monica Huerta, assistant professor of English and American studies Monica Huerta draws on her experiences growing up in her family’s Mexican restaurants and her life as a scholar of literature and Continue Reading →

Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li

A Public Space, 2021 Yiyun Li, professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts From the acclaimed author of Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life, comes Continue Reading →

Risk on the Table: Food Production, Health, and the Environment

Berghahn Books, 2021 Edited by: Angela Creager, the Thomas M. Siebel Professor in the History of Science, and professor of history, and Jean-Paul Gaudillière, senior researcher at the Institut National de la Santé et de Continue Reading →

Deep Life: The Hunt for the Hidden Biology of Earth, Mars, and Beyond

Princeton University Press, 2020 Tullis Onstott, professor of geosciences (1955-2021) Deep Life takes readers to uncharted regions deep beneath Earth’s crust in search of life in extreme environments and reveals how astonishing new discoveries are Continue Reading →