Joe Jackson

A World on Fire: A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen

by Joe Jackson

Like Charles Seife’s Zero and Dava Sobel’s Longitude, this passionate intellectual history is the story of the intersection of science and the human, in this case the rivals who discovered oxygen in the late...

The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire

by Joe Jackson

The amazing tale of one of history's most daring acts of biopiracy-and how it changed history

In this thrilling real-life account of bravery, greed, obsession, and ultimate betrayal, award- winning writer Joe...

Atlantic Fever

by Joe Jackson

For five weeks—from April 14 to May 21, 1927—the world held its breath while fourteen aviators took to the air to capture the $25,000 prize that Raymond Orteig offered to the first man to cross the Atlantic...

Chasing Killers: Three Decades of Cracking Crime in the UK's Murder Capital

by Joe Jackson

Glasgow is known as the murder capital of Britain and no one understands why better than Joe Jackson. For over 30 years, Jackson worked the crime beat, first as a uniformed cop then as a seasoned murder squad...