Prometheus Books

Award-winning travel and drinks writer Mike Gerrard takes readers on a centuries-long journey highlighting the most bizarre - and expensive - alcohol-related crimes all while revealing the inside...

Two leading physicists discuss the importance of the Higgs Boson, the future of particle physics, and the mysteries of the universe yet to be unraveled. Starting where Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman's...

Distorting Democracy will awaken Americans to the perils of our system by unveiling the Electoral College's origins, history, and present operations. This book demonstrates that the system has no...

In The End of Immunity, former President of the International Criminal Court Chile Eboe-Osuji probes the history and theory of the concept of immunity for heads of state, underscoring tribunal...

It's in the ordinary that Katz discovers unlimited potential: mundane routine actually sparks incredible imagination. Though it might seem contradictory, ordered rituals actually bring us freedom,...

While today most would name Wilbur and Orville Wright as America's earliest aviators, ask anyone in the first decade of the 20th century and they would surely list August Greth, John J. Montgomery,...

At the turn of the twentieth century, a 1901 decree ordered the exhumation and relocation of over 150,000 graves in San Francisco- the only major metropolitan city in America to order a complete...

The definitive biography on Meriwether Lewis by Thomas C. Danisi and John C. Jackson now in paperback for the first time. October 11, 2009 marks the bicentennial of Meriwether Lewis's death. As the...

Our Fictional Minds examines and challenges our most common--and seemingly common-sense--ideas about human consciousness. Drawing on developments in neuroscience, psychology, and monitoring...

Quantum theory is the bedrock of contemporary physics and the basis of understanding matter in its tiniest dimensions and the vast universe as a whole. But for many, the theory remains an...

A milestone of child psychology, The Child's Conception of the World explores the ways in which the reasoning powers of young children differ from those of adults. What conceptions of the world does...

Year 2000 shares the untold story of the actors operating on the global stage responsible for managing computer hardware and software for Year 2000 compliance, thus keeping national infrastructures,...