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| a broad disciplinary and geographically inclusive approach to understanding humanity’s ancient past |
| how people in disparate cultures across time and space live and think about their world |
| comprehensive in its approach to subject matter, period, and geography, with titles ranging from authoritative, award-winning scholarly studies and primary materials |
| core strengths in ecology, evolutionary biology, and behavioral biology alongside emerging strengths in biological anthropology, microbiome science, and more |
Computer Science & Electrical Engineering | focuses on the nature of computation and its applications |
| ranges widely, with particular strengths in climatology, ocean science, atmospheric science, and the biogeosciences |
| books that actively influence how the field defines and redefines itself through a broad range of new and challenging ideas |
| highlights higher education and features works by economists, historians, and other scholars from the social sciences and humanities |
| characterized by its long-standing efforts to seek out and publish the most exciting new research, innovative topics, field-defining books, and projects with a global approach |
History of Science & Knowledge | history of the natural and physical sciences, from antiquity to the present, while also incorporating histories of the humanities and the social sciences, of academic disciplines, and of the book |
| literary criticism, history, biography, and reference; primary works by notable writers; poetry, in English and in translation; and occasional works on writing, research, and teaching |
| pure and applied mathematics; the history, philosophy, and foundations of mathematics; and the intersection of mathematics with the sciences, the arts, and society |
| the nature field guides list ranges far and wide in its coverage of the natural world |
Neuroscience & Psychology | understanding how the brain and mind work, embracing explorations of the neural basis of cognition and behavior, from how emotions are generated to how we navigate our world |
| books that reach into adjacent fields and we seek to engage general readers in search of the wisdom philosophy has to offer |
| trade titles, monographs, and textbooks on topics ranging from the quantum to the cosmic |
| books that speak not only to topics of contemporary and immediate relevance, but also to enduring questions regarding states, governments, social behavior, and political conflict |
| publishing scholars who study religion across a wide variety of time periods, world regions, and religious traditions |
| qualitative and quantitative research in such areas as cultural sociology, economic sociology, urban sociology, and computational sociology |
