Thomas Leonard

"Winner of the 2017 Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Prize, History of Economics Society" "Finalist for the 2017 Hayek Prize, The Manhattan Institute" "One of Bloomberg View's Great History Books of 2016" Thomas C. Leonard is research scholar in the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University, where he is also lecturer in the Department of Economics. The pivotal and troubling role of progressive-era economics in the shaping of modern American...

A squirrel buries an acorn. A dolphin pushes a coconut into an ocean current. A camel chewing a date spits out the seed. What do they all have in common? Each one, in its own way, has helped to plant a tree. In myriad ways and diverse environments, Mother Nature is given a hand in dispersing seeds that eventually grow into trees. From the apple seeds falling off the sticky fur of a black bear to the pine seed carried by an army of ants marching to...

"Alphabet counting book featuring a variety of sea mammals"--

Cumulative text describes the interdependence among the wildlife of Antarctica.

"Follows a single Emperor penguin on its annual migration journey"--

A collection of previously unpublished poems, including "Apple Trees, " "From a Hornet's Nest, " and "I Dreamed of a Horse."