No Wood, No Kingdom explores the conflicting attempts to understand the problem of wood scarcity in early modern England and demonstrates how these ideas shaped land use, forestry, and the economic vision of England's earliest colonies.
Hunch explores ten issues in geology and astronomy—among them what causes the heating of the sun’s surface and whether Palaeolithic people sailed across oceans—where the accepted scientific answers to these questions were challenged, and how following one’s intuition can often lead to great intellectual rewards.
Lavishly illustrated, Travels on the Edge not only carries readers to some of the most remote and inaccessible parts of the world but also celebrates the challenges and joys of scientific research. Its author brings a rich human perspective to regions few people have had a chance to explore.
Edited by Frederick Steiner and Ignacio Bunster-Ossa
Contributions by Chloe Cerwinka, Theodore S. Eisenman, Robert Lundgren, Laurie Olin, Lara A. Roman, Witold Rybczynski, Catherine Seavitt and Susan Weiler
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512829563
Pub Date: September 2026
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
Illustrated by nearly fifty of Ignacio F. Bunster-Ossa’s stunning photographs as well as color photographs, archival drawings, blueprints, maps, plans, and diagrams, Penn’s Sylvania not only showcases the critical importance of trees to University of Pennsylvania urban campus but also introduces the people responsible for establishing and conserving its rich botanical heritage.
Edited by Josh Garrett-Davis and Linde B. Lehtinen
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9780873282741
Pub Date: June 2026
Format: Hardcover
176 Pages
Richly illustrated with documents, photographs, and artworks spanning from before 1776 into the twenty-first century, This Land Is . . . tells a story about place in US history and culture. More than twenty writers and artists reflect on the conflicting visions of American land, engaging with colonial legacies, national identity, and resilience.
Jane Colden (1724–1760) was America’s first woman botanist. This richly illustrated account of her life and work examines Colden’s original writing, the correspondence of her father, Dr. Cadwallader Colden, and eighteenth-century botanic sources, and restores her legacy as one of the country’s great botanists.
The Atlantic Republic of Letters offers an alternative intellectual history of early America. Situating Benjamin Franklin’s Philadelphia in the context of a broader Atlantic intellectual world, it shows how early American intellectuals helped to devise and put into practice colonialism.
The years 1945 to 2020, from the testing of the first atomic bomb to the rise of artificial intelligence, constitute the “American century,” which coincides with the rise and fall of the United States as a global power. Arnold Thackray’s pioneering expertise in the history of science provides a unique perspective from which to tell this story.
