David J.T. Sumpter,
The Ten Equations that Rule the World: And How You Can Use Them Too

Michael Strevens
The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science

Dr. David Rapson,
The Unintended Risks of Current Electric Vehicle Policy (and Better Alternatives)

Johan Norberg,
Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future

Susan Wolff Murphy,
Teaching Writing with Latino/a Students: Lessons Learned at Hispanic Serving Institutions

Zena Hitz,
Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life

Kathryn Paige Harden,
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality

Scott Groen,
Humanizing Homo Economicus

Sampada Dalvi and Joan Samuelson,
Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”

John Barr and Steve Davis,
Dorian Lynskey’s The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell’s 1984

Michael G. Vann,
The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam

Corey Robin,
The Enigma of Clarence Thomas

Michelle Nijhuis,
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction

Felipe Hinojosa,
Apostles of Change: Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio

Steve Davis, John Barr, and Cindy Ross,
I Wish I Weren’t in the ‘Land of Cotton’: Richard Wright, H.L. Mencken and the Jim Crow South

Ryan Bourne,
Economics in One Virus: An Introduction of Economic Reasoning through COVID-19

John Barr, Angelica Bernal, and Katherine Dullen,
Walter Isaacson’s The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

T.C. Anderson,
The Forest

Emiliano Zapata,
Mexico’s Social Revolutionary (The World in a Life Series)

Sharon Street,
Does anything really matter or did we just evolve to think so?

Dr. James S.J. Schwartz,
The Value of Science in Space Exploration

Cindy Ross,
Using Words as Weapons: Richard Wright and the Quest for Racial Equality in America

Lucas Morel,
Lincoln and the American Founding

Jared Miller,
Coping with COVID: A Psychologist Looks at Ways to Thrive Amidst the Ongoing Pandemic

Eric Lee,
Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler’s Revenge, April-May 1945

James Kwak,
Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality

Joe Holley,
Sutherland Springs: God, Guns, and Hope in a Texas Town????

Justin Buckley Dyer,
C.S. Lewis on Politics and the Natural Law

Kristin Kobes Du Mez,
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

Beth Caldwell,
Deported Americans: Life after Deportation to Mexico

Alice L. Baumgartner,
South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

Katherine Stewart,
The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism

Daniel J. Sherman,
Environmental Science and Sustainability

George Sher,
Equality for Inegalitarians

Jason Riley,
False Black Power?

Andrés Reséndez,
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

Uzma Quraishi,
Redefining the Immigrant South: Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston During the Cold War

Katherine Persson,
Richard Powers’ The Overstory

Melvin Konner, M.D., Ph.D.
Believers: Faith in Human Nature

Icess Fernandez,
Houston Noir

Cameron Dezen Hammon
Writing to Save Our Lives: Why We Need True Stories Now More Than Ever

Caleb McDaniel, Rice University
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America

Binocular Rivalry: How the Brain Makes Sense of a Changing and Uncertain World
Kresimir Josic, University of Houston

Anthony Brandt, Rice University
The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World

Ben Orlin, Author
The State of Being Stuck

Mandisa Thomas, Black Nonbelievers, Inc.
Walking by Sight, Not Faith

Andres Resendez, University of California–Davis
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

Lisa Yaszek,
The Future is Female!

Mark E. Steiner,
Lincoln and Citizenship

Dr. David Shi, Ph.D.,
America: A Narrative History

Thilo M. Schimmel, Ph.D.,
“This was Rocket Science”: Operation Paperclip and the Moral Dilemma of Transferring Nazi Research and Scientists to the United States after World War II

Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton,
Newsworthy: Poems

Jared Miller,
Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon

Max Krochmal,
Blue Texas: The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era

Chris Cander,
The Weight of a Piano

Gwen Bradford, Jared Miller, Thilo Schimmel, and David Shi,
Curious Minds: The 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing

Gwen Bradford, Ph.D.,
Is There a Moral Obligation to Go to Mars?

Beetle,
Paul’s Not Dead: The 50th Anniversary of Abbey Road

Tara Smith,
Ayn Rand’s Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist

Dr. Michael Ryan,
A Taste for the Beautiful: The Evolution of Attraction

Walter Benn Michaels,
The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality

Rich Meisel, Ph.D.,
On the Variation within Animal Species…By Means of Natural Selection

Sam Kean,
The Violinist’s Thumb

James R. Hannibal, Simon & Shuster,
The Clockwork Dragon

John Morán González, Ph.D.,
Border Renaissance: The Texas Centennial and the Emergence of Mexican American Literature

Dr. John “Chuck” Chalberg, Ph.D.,
Rickey and Robinson: The Preacher, the Player, and America’s Game

Lillian Calles Barger, Ph.D.,
The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology

Johnny Ono,
They Say It’s Your Birthday: Fifty Years of the Beatles White Album

John Gillespie,
From Contemplation to Activism: The Life and Thought of Thomas Merton

Elizabeth Cobbs,
American Umpire

Gwen Bradford,
Achievement

John Boles,
Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty

Daina Berry,
The Price for their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation

Robert Dennison,
The Life and Work of Charles Darwin

Julia Moore Vogel,
Clinically Actionable Genomics: How Crowdsourcing Data Can Accelerate Implementation

Dr. Adam Shapiro,
An Unfit Darwinist: The Untold Story of America’s First Evolution Trial

Shawn Otto,
The War on Science: Who’s Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It

Ramiro “Ray” Martinez,
They Call Me Ranger Ray: From the UT Tower Sniper to Corruption in South Texas

Ibram Kendi,
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Dr. Robert Jensen,
The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men

Janet M. Davis,
The Gospel of Kindness: Animal Welfare & the Making of Modern America

Scott Solomon,
Future Humans: Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution

Brian Matthew Jordan,
Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War

Phyllis Frye,
Transgender People in Today’s Culture: Social, Legal, & Political Issues

Gary Clark and Kathy Adams Clark,
What Birds Tell Us About Our World

Thomas L. Carson,
Lincoln’s Ethics

Josh Blackman,
Unraveled: Obamacare, Religious Liberty, and Executive Power

Timothy Snyder,
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
In cooperation with the Holocaust Museum

Melissa Ramsey,
Medicare Fraud, Waste, and Abuse

Kimberly A. Hamlin,
From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women’s Rights in Gilded Age America

Steven Fenberg,
Unprecedented Power: Jesse Jones, Capitalism, and the Common Good

Dr. Scott Egan,
Charles Darwin and the Five Important Elements in Support of Evolution

Raúl Coronado,
A World Not to Come: A History of Latino Writing and Print Culture

Lawrence Wilkerson,
The Travails of Empire
Center for Civic Engagement

Natalia Trevino,
Lavando La Dirty Laundry

Kunibert Raffer,
Debt Crises in Europe: Iceland’s Recovery Contrasted with the Eurozone’s Crisis
Center for Civic Engagement

Chris Hedges,
Wages of Rebellion

Paul Finkelman,
Proslavery Region Versus Proslavery Science: Conflicting Views of Faith and Scholarship in the Service of Evil

Reza Aslan,
How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror

Dr. Ahmad Faruqui,
Pakistan and India: Sources of Conflict and Chances for Peace

Jesse Walker,
The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory

Dr. Robert Jensen,
Pornography: A Radical Feminist Critique

Christopher Layne,
The Peace of Illusions: American Grand Strategy from 1940 to the Present

James H. Jones,
Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment

Jackie Hogan,
Lincoln, Inc.: Selling the Sixteenth President in Contemporary America

Toby Diaz,
Libro Traficante

Arnoldo De Leon,
They Called Them Greasers: Anglo Attitudes toward Mexicans in Texas, 1821-1900

Larry Arnhart,
Darwinian Conservatism

David Shi,
America: A Narrative History

Michael Parenti,
Against Empire

Nathan McCall,
Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America

James Galbraith,
The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too

Steven Deyle,
Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life

Timothy Sandefur,
Frederick Douglass: Self-Made Man

Corey Robin,
The Reactionary Mind

Chitra Divakaruni,
One Amazing Thing

Dr. Hamid Shomali,
2008 Recession vs. Great Depression: Comparison of the Great Depression with the 2008 Recession and the policy responses

David Hayes-Bautista,
El Cinco de Mayo: An American Tradition

Glenn Greenwald,
Shredding the Constitution: Civil Liberties and the War on Terror
Center for Civic Engagement

Chuck Chalberg,
George Orwell on Dickens and Revolutions

Dr. Anthony Champagne,
The Austin-Boston Connection: Fifty Years of House Democratic Leadership, 1937-1989

Dr. Brigid Callahan Harrison,
The Politics of the Millennial Generation

Theodore Lowi,
How Can We Survive Our Presidents-Or Do We?

John Barr and Betsy Morgan,
Adam Gopnik’s Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life