State Science

Visit the Volunteer State! Learn about Tennessee's history, geography, weather, people, and more in this book that's all about our 16th state.

Welcome to the Ocean State! Learn about Rhode Island's history, geography, weather, people, and more in this book that's all about our 13th state.

Take a trip through the Hoosier State! Learn about Indiana's history, geography, weather, people, and more in this book that's all about our 19th state.

Visit the Green Mountain State! Learn about Vermont's history, geography, weather, people, and more in this book that's all about our 14th state.

Explore the Old Line State! Learn about Maryland's history, geography, weather, people, and more in this book that's all about our seventh state.

Welcome to the Grand Canyon State! Learn about Arizona's history, weather, geography, people, and more in this book that's all about our 48th state.

Explore the Keystone State! Learn about Pennsylvania's history, geography, weather, people, and more in this book that's all about our second state.

Explore the Mountain State! Learn about West Virginia's history, geography, weather, people, and more in this book that's all about our 35th state.

Welcome to the Equality State! Learn about Wyoming's history, geography, weather, people, and more in this book that's all about our 44th state.

Welcome to the Tar Heel State! Learn about North Carolina's history, geography, weather, people, and more in this book that's all about our 12th state.

Visit the Palmetto State! Learn about South Carolina's history, geography, weather, people, and more in this book that's all about our eighth state.

Visit the Constitution State! Learn more about Connecticut's geography, weather, history, people, and more in this book that's all about our 5th state.

Welcome to the First State! Learn about Delaware's history, weather, geography, people, and more in this book that's all about our first state.

An expansive and accessible account of anarchism as a theory of practice.

The dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman's first four months in office, when this unlikely president had to take on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and the atomic bomb, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.

What did the US Constitution originally mean, and how can we recover the intentions of its framers? These questions, which resound throughout today’s most heated legal and political controversies, lie at the heart of Jack N. Rakove’s splendidly readable work of historical analysis. In Original Meanings, he traces the complex weave of ideology and interests from which the Constitution emerged and shows how Americans have attached different meanings to their founding document from the moment it was published.

Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark are internationally renowned investigative journalists. In Deception, they reveal the decades-long story of Pakistan's nuclear program - and how the United States has been complicit in the spread of nuclear arms. Based on hundreds of interviews from around the world, this work will force Americans to reexamine national priorities.

On December 3, 1999, the call crackled in to the men of the Worchester, Massachusetts Fire Department: a three-alarm warehouse blaze in a six-story windowless colossus of brick and mortar. What happened next, and how their lives and community were changed forever, offers an unprecedented look at these heroic men whose job it is to rush into burning buildings when everyone else just wants out.

Black American History for Dummies reveals the terrors and struggles and celebrates the triumphs of Black Americans. This handy book goes way beyond what you may have studied in school, digging into the complexities and the intrigues that make up Black America. From slavery and the Civil Rights movement to Black Wall Street, Juneteenth, redlining, and Black Lives Matter, this book offers an accessible resource for understanding the facts and events critical to Black history in America.

The New York Times bestselling author of The Case for Trump explains the decline and fall of the once cherished idea of American citizenship. Human history is full of the stories of peasants, subjects, and tribes. Yet the concept of the “citizen” is historically rare—and was among...