Stuart Piggott Combines fact and folklore in exploring the history and culture of the mysterious Celtic priests January 1, 1974 by Penguin

John Lukacs This is a day-by-day account of the eighty-day struggle in 1940 between Hitler—poised on the edge of absolute victory—and Churchill—threatened by imminent invasion and defeat--on the eve of...

Terence Prittie and Walter Henry Nelson269 pages, HardcoverPublished Random House (NY)

Garth Fowden Sage, scientist, and sorcerer, Hermes Trismegistus was the culture-hero of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. A human (according to some) who had lived about the time of Moses, but...

Tom Wolfe"I looked around and people's faces were distorted...lights were flashing everywhere...the screen at the end of the room had three or four different films on it at once, and...

AN Wilson The acknowledged master of the all-encompassing single volume of history demonstrates the profound impact the Elizabethan age has had on contemporary Britain.With all the panoramic sweep of his...

Siddhartha MukherjeeA Biography of CancerThe story of cancer is a human one - a tale of chance discoveries, seized opportunities and human endurance. From innovative but brutal early surgical treatments...

John Darwin The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the...

Zecharia Sitchin The groundbreaking, bestselling series—millions of copies sold worldwide! A classic of ancient human history—and one of the inspirations behind the History Channel’s Ancient Aliens —Zecharia Sitchin’s Earth Chronicles...

Gershom Gorenberg A senior columnist for The Jerusalem Report focuses on the religious passions that make fundamentalists of three major religions--Christianity, Judaism, and Islam--battle over the Temple Mount in Jerusalem...

Sam Harris Sam Harris delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith & reason in the modern world, arguing that the threat of mass destruction is too great for...

Francis Fukuyama In 1989, Francis Fukuyama began an explosive debate about the future of the world in the post-Cold War era with an article entitled `The End of History and...