Gerald Easter

Nov 21, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Tao Leigh Goffe |Ethan Kross |Kari Ferrell |Gerald Easter

Alex Hutchinson. Mariner, $32.50 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-326976-7Outside columnist Hutchinson (Endure) offers an enlightening if overstuffed examination of why humans are “drawn to the unknown.” Unpacking the anthropological origins of the urge to explore, he explains how early humans’ “adaptive flexibility” drove them across oceans and helped them to survive in new and challenging environments, while the evolution of more complex planning skills and language enabled longer voyages.

Nov 19, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Tao Leigh Goffe |Ethan Kross |Kari Ferrell |Gerald Easter

Neil Shubin. Dutton, $32 (288p) ISBN 978-0-593-18652-7In this dazzling report, Shubin (Some Assembly Required), a biology professor at the University of Chicago, examines what the Earth’s poles reveal about the planet and the universe.

Nov 12, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Tao Leigh Goffe |Ethan Kross |Kari Ferrell |Gerald Easter

When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution’s Greatest RomanceIn this striking study, science writer Black (The Last Days of the Dinosaurs) presents vignettes illustrating the complex interplay between animals, plants, and the environment from 1.2 billion through 15,000 years ago.

Nov 4, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Tao Leigh Goffe |Ethan Kross |Kari Ferrell |Gerald Easter

Alan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair. Dey Street, $35 (768p) ISBN 978-0-06-300075-9Music critics Kozinn and Sinclair follow up The McCartney Legacy, Vol. 1 with another kaleidoscopic account of the musician’s post-Beatles career.

Nov 1, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Gerald Easter |Mara Vorhees |Tao Leigh Goffe |Ethan Kross

The Last Stand of the Raven Clan: A Story of Imperial Ambition, Native Resistance, and How the Tlingit-Russian War Shaped a ContinentIndigenous resistance in Alaska was so fierce that it thwarted the Russian empire’s colonial ambitions in North America, profoundly impacting the continent’s destiny, according to this gripping and ambitious account from historian Easter and travel writer Vorhees (coauthors of The Tsarina’s Lost Treasure).