Time for Kids TIME For Kids continues the success of That's Awesome! to create, That's Incredible!, a book filled with brand-new and impressive facts combined with colorful and attention-grabbing photos...

Andrea StuartA rich and evocative biography which tells the extraordinary story of one of the most remarkable women of modern history: Josephine Bonaparte

WG SebaldCampo Santo is a collection of essays by W. G. SebaldWhen W.G. Sebald died tragically in 2001 a unique voice was silenced. Campo Santo is a collection of the...

Teddy Kollek and Moshe Pearlman Jerusalem, with a recorded history of some 4,000 years, has been more familiar to more people for a longer period than any other place on...

Carl SaganHow can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer...

D BahatBeginning with a brief history of the region, Israel: Past and Present features overlays of Jerusalem throughout the ages, important religious sites such as the Western Wall and the...

Barbara W TuchmanBarbara W. Tuchman won the Pulitzer Prize for Stilwell & the American Experience in China, 1911-45 in '72. She uses the life of Joseph Stilwell, the military attache...

Robert WrightIn his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining...

Michael T KlareFrom the oilfields of Saudi Arabia to the Nile delta, from the shipping lanes of the South China Sea to the pipelines of Central Asia, Resource Wars looks...

Charles NichollLeonardo da Vinci is the most mysterious of all the great artists, continuing to inspire and intrigue centuries after his death. Who lies behind the legend of the 'Renaissance...

Bill Bryson   In Bryson's biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand—and, if possible, answer—the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as...

David Cordingly Patrick O' Brian, C.S. Forester and Captain Marryat all based their literary heroes on Thomas Cochrane, but Cochrane's exploits were far more daring and exciting than those of...