Bellevue Literary Press: 69 books
by Liam Durcan
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Features the same real, rare neurological disorder as bestselling novelist and neuroscientist Lisa Genova (Still Alice) did in Left Neglected. While Genova is described as “equal parts Jennifer Weiner and Merck Manual” (National Post), Durcan—also a practicing neuroscientist—is, as critics...
by Pascale Kramer
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Praised for her “exceptional ability to narrate the heartrending lives of ordinary people” (Jean-Louis Hippolyte), deliver a “riveting page-turner” (Entertainment Weekly), and master the “art of creating a diffuse discomfort” (Marie Claire), Pascale Kramer is one of the world’s finest...
by Michelle Latiolais
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
“Every passionate reader lives for that first page of a book that alerts her, straightaway, she’ll be sorry when the book ends. So it is with Michelle Latiolais’ astonishing, sparklingly intelligent new novel...The work strives, with bold zest, to arrive at the marrow of things...Latiolais triumphs,...
The Lives They Left Behind
Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
The Lives They Left Behind is a deeply moving testament to the human side of mental illness, and of the narrow margin which so often separates the sane from the mad. It is a remarkable portrait, too, of the life of a psychiatric asylum-the sort of community in which, for better and for worse, hundreds...
Beyond Uncertainty
Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and The Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
A physicist and a historian, Cassidy writes about science and political history with equal authority. Since the publication of David Cassidy's definitive biography of Werner Heisenberg, "Uncertainty: The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg" in 1992, new information has emerged on this...
The Poetic Species
A Conversation with Edward O. Wilson and Robert Hass
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Provides a manifesto for activists in education and conservation—as Wilson and Hass explain how the close observation of nature, which is central to both poetry and science, can rouse the conservationist in all of us, the conversation becomes a powerful treatise on the necessity of achieving consilience...
Starlight Detectives
How Astronomers, Inventors, and Eccentrics Discovered the Modern Universe
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Julia Ward Howe Award Finalist
NBC News Top Science and Tech Books of the Year” selection
Scientific American/FSG Favorite Science Books of the Year” selection
Nature.com Top Reads of the Year” selection
Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year” selection
Discover magazine Top 5 Summer...
Epigenetics in the Age of Twitter
Pop Culture and Modern Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
"America's most interesting and important essayist." —Eric Kandel, Nobel Prize–winning author of The Age of Insight
"[Gerald Weissmann] bridges the space between science and the humanities, and particularly between medicine and the muses, with wit, erudition, and, most important,...
Country of Ash
A Jewish Doctor in Poland, 19391945
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Witness to many war atrocities and one of the few survivors of both the Lodz and Warsaw ghettos, Edward Reicher’s testimony has been cited in many scholarly works, but this is the first time English-speaking readers will have access to his complete and uniquely chilling account. Forced to join the...
A Road Unforeseen
Women Fight the Islamic State
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
This is the book I’ve been waiting for-only it’s richer, deeper, and more intriguing than I could have imagined. A Road Unforeseen is a major contribution to our understanding of feminism and Islam, of women and the world, and gives me fresh hope for change.” -Barbara Ehrenreich, author of...
by Norman Lock
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
“[Norman Lock’s fiction] shimmers with glorious language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights.” —NPR
In this panoramic tale of Manifest Destiny—the second stand-alone book in The American Novels series—Stephen Moran comes of age with the young country that he crosses on the Union...
The Cage
The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
"The Cage is a tightly written and clear-eyed narrative about one of the most disturbing human dramas of recent years. . . . A riveting, cautionary tale about the consequences of unchecked political power in a country at war. A must-read." —Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker staff writer and...
Written in Stone
Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
As the media frenzy over Darwinius and the recent proliferation of books on evolution and creationism show, the public is fascinated by debates about evolutionary biology.
Transitional fossils are often featured in news headlines as "missing links" perpetuating a profound misunderstanding...
Impromptu Man
J.L. Moreno and the Origins of Psychodrama, Encounter Culture, and the Social Network
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Impromptu Man captures the remarkable impact of a singular genius, J.L. Moreno, whose creations-the best-known being psychodrama-have shaped our culture in myriad ways, many unrecognized. The record will be set straight for all time by this can’t-put-down biography, a tribute by Jonathan D. Moreno...