John Perlin, "The Forest Journey: The Story of Trees and Civilization" (Patagonia, 2023)

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Henry Grabar, "Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World" (Penguin, 2023)

Parking, quite literally, has a death grip on America: each year a handful of Americans are tragically killed by their fellow citizens over parking spots. But even when we don't resort to violence, we routinely do ridiculous things for parking, contorting our professional, social ...  Show more

Anna Zeide, "US History in 15 Foods" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

From whiskey in the American Revolution to Spam in WWII, food reveals a great deal about the society in which it exists. Selecting 15 foods that represent key moments in the history of the United States, this book takes readers from before European colonization to the present, na ...  Show more

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