Richard DawkinsBorn to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists, and linked through his wider family to a clutch of accomplished scientists, Richard Dawkins was bound to have biology in his genes....

Charles DarwinIn 1831, Charles Darwin embarked on an expedition that, in his own words, determined my whole career. The Voyage of the Beagle chronicles his five-year journey around the world...

Bernice RubensBernice Rubens is one of England's elder stateswomen of literature, and I,Dreyfus upholds her reputation for producing stately and polished fiction with a serious moral intent. For Rubens, the...

Jonathan Dee First published January 1, 2001  

Christoph Delius, Matthias GatzemeierThis volume retraces the story and development of philosophy from the antique times to our days, with numerous illustrations and excurses about major philosophers, thinkers, theoricians, and...

Dan Simmons“CARRION COMFORT is one of the three greatest horror novels of the 20th century. Simple as that.” --Stephen King "Epic in scale and scope but intimately disturbing, CARRION COMFORT...

Tom SegevOne Palestine, Complete explores the tumultuous period before the creation of the state of Israel. This was the time of the British Mandate, when Britain's promise to both Jews...

Rebecca StottFilled with evocative descriptions of Cambridge, past and present, of seventeenth-century glassmaking, alchemy, the Great Plague, and Newton’s scientific innovations, Ghostwalk centers around a real historical mystery that Rebecca...

David HorspoolAlthough he styled himself 'His Highness', adopted the court ritual of his royal predecessors, and lived in the former royal palaces of Whitehall and Hampton Court, Oliver Cromwell was...

John De LA MotheSnow is often regarded as a late-Victorian liberal who had little to say about the modernist period in which he lived and wrote. John de la Mothe,...

Anne Roiphe From the acclaimed author of "Fruitful" comes a novel of the love between a mother and daughter. Annie Johnson has worked hard to raise her daughter, Andrea. She...

James Redfield James Redfield's The Celestine Prophecy is an extraordinary, life-changing book. Perhaps you, like millions of readers, have discovered in its pages a new vision of coincidences in your...