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Book cover of The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers by Emily Levesque
Astronomy & Space Science

The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy’s Vanishing Explorers

The story of the people who see beyond the stars―an astronomy book for adults still spellbound by the night sky.

Humans from the earliest civilizations through today have craned their necks each night, using the stars to orient themselves in the large, strange world around them. Stargazing is a pursuit that continues to fascinate us: from Copernicus to Carl Sagan, astronomers throughout history have spent their lives trying to answer the biggest questions in the universe. […Learn More]

Americas

War on the Border: Villa, Pershing, the Texas Rangers, and an American Invasion

A dramatic account of the “Punitive Expedition” of 1916 that brought Pancho Villa and Gen. John J. Pershing into conflict, and whose reverberations continue in the Southwestern US to this day.

Jeff Guinn, chronicler of the Southwestern US and of American undesirables (Bonnie and Clyde, Charles Manson, Jim Jones) tells the riveting story of Pancho Villa’s bloody raid on a small US border town that sparked a violent conflict with the US. […Learn More]