From yellow fever to smallpox to polio to AIDS to COVID-19, epidemics have prompted Americans to make choices and answer questions about their basic values and their laws. In five concise chapters, historian John Fabian Witt traces the legal history of epidemics, showing how infectious disease has both shaped, and been shaped by, the law.

Navigating the world of adult friendships can be a real challenge when everyone is busy, overwhelmed, or too often too far away. Here to help are Jenn Bane and Trin Garritano, the duo behind the cult favorite podcast Friendshipping. Insightful, empathetic, and just a touch irreverent, Jenn and Trin give readers the tools they need to make new friends and revitalize the quality of existing friendships.

Erika Engelhaupt, founding editor of National Geographic's Gory Details blog, explores oft-ignored but alluring facets of biology, anatomy, space exploration, nature, and more. Featuring reporting and interviews with leading researchers in the field, Gory Details illuminates the world's most intriguing real-world applications of science.

Learn the different stages of creating and maintaining a garden including tool selection, sowing seeds, and fighting pests without pesticides, soil prep, using compost, harvesting rainwater, and maximizing sun exposure, all with sustainability in mind. Through diagrams, 500 color photos, and step-by-step instructions, this book will ensure that even the average backyard putterer can create an environmentally sustainable garden. Packed with practical advice, this book is for everyone who wants a beautiful, productive backyard that won't cost the earth.

Which foods are making us healthier, and which are killing us? The answer is a resounding “It’s complicated.” This popular scientist examines processed food and the reasons that humans have developed them. Take this humorous walk through the science of health, using cigarettes and sunscreen as case studies to explore health recommendations, ultimately concluding that we shouldn’t worry unless the CDC weighs in. With a lighthearted tone and approachable language even the least science-inclined reader will learn the strengths and pitfalls of the science that tells us what’s best for our bodies.

Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat woman. Randa Jarrar is all of these things. In this "exuberant, defiant and introspective" memoir of a cross-country road trip, she explores how to claim joy in an unraveling and hostile America.

This emotionally honest and in-depth self-improvement resource by a clinical psychologist helps overwhelmed mothers cope with the hardships of parenting and improve their mental health. Practical strategies guide struggling mothers through understanding feelings of sadness, anxiety, anger, disgust and embarrassment, working on overcoming them and ultimately moving to a place of self-care, where they can enjoy mothering their children once again. Unlike other parenting self-help books that focus on telling women to remain happy and positive, this one teaches practical solutions, skills and strategies.

A journalist and author takes a snapshot album of our country, visiting big cities, Mormon sacred sites, small towns and adult film studios, trying to figure who we are as a nation.

Before the 1960s, the distinction between violent and nonviolent crime played hardly any role in the law. Since then, the number of crimes deemed violent has skyrocketed. David Alan Sklansky shows how shifting and inconsistent legal definitions of violence have fueled mass incarceration, protected abusive police, and undermined criminal justice.

Do you really need a ten-step skincare regimen? Is that $100 eye cream worth it? And what the heck are "actives" anyway? In this book two professional chemists and beauty industry insiders tell all. Victoria Fu and Gloria Lu are the creators behind the popular Chemist Confessions Instagram, and this book brings the sass, humor, and solid information they're known for.

The Western Front evokes images of mud-spattered men in waterlogged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts and machine-gun fire by a few feet of dirt. This iconic setting was the most critical arena of the Great War, a 400-mile combat zone stretching from Belgium to Switzerland where more than three million Allied and German soldiers struggled during four years of almost continuous combat. In this epic narrative history, the first volume in a groundbreaking trilogy on the Great War, acclaimed military historian Nick Lloyd captures the horrific fighting on the Western Front beginning with the surprise German invasion of Belgium in August 1914 and taking us to the Armistice of November 1918.

Fifty years on, in the age of #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, this visionary and radical writing is as relevant and urgently needed as ever, ready to inspire a new generation of feminists. Activists and writers Alix Kates Shulman and Honor Moore have gathered an unprecedented collection of works--many long out-of-print and hard to find--that catalyzed and propelled the women's liberation movement.