Nate Pedersen

From the masters of storytelling-meets-science, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks—how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us....

Scholars and book collectors across the country have long pondered the intended fate of the infamous collection of rare occult books left to rot in the Church of Starry Wisdom in Providence....

From the authors of Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything comes a rollicking narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science.

Since time immemorial, people have passed through these misty mountains as they traveled between the Scottish lowlands and highlands....