These books confront readers with the recent past and distant future, bring them to southeastern Africa and an alternative Japan, and bedeck their pages with subversive cartoons and lush landscapes.

“It’s about time," said Valerie Weaver-Zercher, an acquiring editor at Broadleaf, which has three books in this category this ...

Prospa, an online lender for small business, has used hackathons and graph database technology to map out complex ...