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No More Secrets: My Part in Codebreaking at Bletchley Park and the Pentagon

Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism

Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything — And Endangered the World

Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future

Romaine Wasn’t Built in a Day: The Delightful History of Food Language

Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe

The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy

Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World

Photography Fifth Edition: A Cultural History

A Hidden Wisdom: Medieval Contemplatives on Self-Knowledge, Reason, Love, Persons, and Immortality

Messalina: A Story of Empire, Slander and Adultery

Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies

The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City

Under the Skin: Tattoos, Scalps, and the Contested Language of Bodies in Early America

Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life

Our Brave Foremothers: Celebrating 100 Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous Women Who Changed the Course of History

Women Artists

Quant by Quant: The Autobiography of Mary Quant

The Way We Eat Now: How the Food Revolution Has Transformed Our Lives, Our Bodies, and Our World

Visitors: An American Feminist in East Central Europe

Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine’s Confessions

The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women

Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming

I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton

Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent

Woman: An Intimate Geography

Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West

Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America’s Future

The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It

Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?

The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems: An Intersectional Political Economy

Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma

Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?

The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights

Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature

Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America

The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption

Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence

Feminist Psychology: History, Practice, Research, and the FutureFeminist Philosophy

Grief and Women Writers in the English Renaissance

The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History’s Most Astonishing Murder Ring

They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

That Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means: The 150 Most Commonly Misused Words and Their Tangled Histories

Queer Timing: The Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality in Early Cinema

Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality, 1920-2020

Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker

And Then What?: Inside Stories of 21st Century Diplomacy

Material Enlightenment: Women Writers and the Science of Mind, 1770-1830

Heroines in History: A Thousand Faces

Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt’s Ancient Temples from Destruction

Make Some Space: Tuning Into Total Refreshment Centre

Voyager: Constellations of Memory

Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English

Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother

Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty

How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2001

A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England

Woman’s Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi

The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

Unearthed: A Lost Actress, a Forbidden Book, and a Search for Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust

Feminist Philosophies of Life

The Ghost Club

Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World’s Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her

Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls: Women, Music, and Fame

Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain

A Stone Is Most Precious Where It Belongs

Lawbreaking Ladies: 50 Tales of Daring, Defiant, and Dangerous Women from History

Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York’s Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist

The American Way of Death Revisited

The Sum of Us

The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality

Crash Landing: The Inside Story of How the World’s Biggest Companies Survived an Economy on the Brink

Languages Are Good For Us

I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

Silk Road: A New History

The True History of Merlin the Magician

The Southernization of America: A Story of Democracy in the Balance

Women and the Crusades

The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction

Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction

The Roman Triumph

How to Read Now

Angela Davis: An Autobiography

The Rising of the Women: Feminist Solidarity and Class Conflict, 1880-1917

Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through the Dancefloor

Magnificent Rebel: Nancy Cunard in Jazz Age Paris

Once upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature

Period: The Real Story of Menstruation

The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal

Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman

A History of Science: From Agriculture to Artificial Intelligence

Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her

Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones

Dressing Barbie: A Celebration of the Clothes That Made America’s Favorite Doll and the Incredible Woman Behind Them

Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began

Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA

Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico: Portraits of Soldaderas, Saints, and Subversives

Egg: A Dozen Ovatures

Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll

My Life with Things: The Consumer Diaries

Femme Magnifique: 50 Magnificent Women Who Changed The World

Black Tudors: The Untold Story

Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914

Great and Horrible News: Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern Britain

Unseen: Unpublished Black History from The New York Times Photo Archives

Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson

Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Enquiry and Hope

Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science

Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East

Ring of Fire: High-Stakes Mining in a Lowlands Wilderness

Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Thinking Through Fashion: A Guide to Key Theorists

How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind

Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream

Women in Antiquity: Real Women Across the Ancient World

How to Suppress Women’s Writing

Making A Masterpiece: The stories behind iconic artworks

The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments and Warps Our Economies

Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn’t Enough

Women Who Made Science History

Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box

Bookish Broads: Women Who Wrote Themselves into History

The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science

Spoiled: The Myth of Milk as Superfood

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

Reshaping Women’s History: Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians

Black Women Writers at Work

Why She Wrote: A Graphic History of the Lives, Inspiration, and Influence Behind the Pens of Classic Women Writers

The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World

Reframing the Past: History, Film and Television

Deconstructing Racism: A Path Toward Lasting Change

Literary Identification from Charlotte Brontë to Tsitsi Dangarembga

The Perfume Companion: The Definitive Guide to Choosing Your Next Scent

Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation

Ancient DNA: The Making of a Celebrity Science

BLK ART: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art

Female Innovators Who Changed Our World

A Life By Design: The art and lives of Florence Broadhurst

A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice

Helen of Troy

Medieval Pets

The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World

Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women’s Roles in Society

Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore

Time in Fashion: Industrial, Antilinear and Uchronic Temporalities

Experimental Fashion: Performance Art, Carnival and the Grotesque Body

Faces on Screen: New Approaches

Dismantling the Patriarchy, Bit by Bit: Art, Feminism, and Digital Technology

Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power

Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon

Queens of the Age of Chivalry: England’s Medieval Queens, Volume Three

When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe

What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books

The Women’s History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years

Color: A Natural History of the Palette

Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing

All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence

No Choice

Cats in Medieval Manuscripts

Dressed: A Philosophy of Clothes

Ain’t I a Woman?

Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

Women of Myth: From Deer Woman and Mami Wata to Amaterasu and Athena, Your Guide to the Amazing and Diverse Women from World Mythology

Women Writing Race, Nation, and History: N/native

Wild Unrest: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Making of the Yellow Wall-Paper

Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear

Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs

Zarifa: A Woman’s Battle in a Man’s World

It’s Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women’s Bodies

We Are Bridges: A Memoir

Woman’s Estate

Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century

Wonderful Tonight

The Short Story of Art: A Pocket Guide to Key Movements, Works, Themes, Techniques

We Were There: The Third World Women’s Alliance and the Second Wave

Pirate Queens: The Lives of Anne Bonny & Mary Read

Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart

Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women

Deco Body, Deco City: Female Spectacle and Modernity in Mexico City, 1900–1939

The Whole Picture: The colonial story of the art in our museums… and why we need to talk about it

Matriarchal Societies of the Past and the Rise of Patriarchy: West Asia and Europe

Viking Women: Life and Lore

The Victimization of Women: Law, Policies, and Politics

Off with Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power

Photography and the Art Market

Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism

A Natural History of the Senses

Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

This Book Is Feminist: An Intersectional Primer for Feminists in Training

This Is How You Vagina: All About Your Vajayjay and Why You Probably Shouldn’t Call It That

Bicycling for Ladies : The Classic 1896 Guide to Skills, Exercise, Mechanics, and Dress

The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife

The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism

The Mother of the Brontës: When Maria Met Patrick

This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You