A rousing historical novel that rescues one of England s forgotten heroes from the mists of early medieval history and brings him to brutal and bloody life 1062, a time many fear is the End of Days. With the English King Edward heirless and ailing, across the grey seas in Normandy the brutal William[...]

? Is your God real, or just an ?imaginary friend How can a loving God exist when there is so much suffering? Have Christians waged senseless war on other faiths, on the environment, and on each other in the name of a nonexistent God? There's a new atheism taking root in America, a movement more powe[...]

In his national bestseller, "Soccernomics," Simon Kuper pioneered a new way of looking at soccer, the world's most popular game, through his witty and meticulous use of data. In "Soccer Men," Kuper explores the heart and soul of the sport by getting up close and personal with soccer's greatest playe[...]

How did human beings acquire imaginations that can conjure up untrue possibilities? How did the Universe become self-aware? In "The Runes of Evolution," Simon Conway Morris revitalizes the study of evolution from the perspective of convergence, providing us with compelling new evidence to support th[...]

In the tradition of "The Ice Master and Endurance," here is the incredible story of the first truly modern explorer, whose death-defying adventures and uncommon modesty make this book itself an extraordinary discovery. Hubert Wilkins was the most successful explorer in history--no one saw with his o[...]

When Jude agrees to lend her vintage chaise longue for the local Amateur Dramatics Society's production of George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple, little does she realize she'll end up in a starring role. It's an ambitious play, culminating in a dramatic execution scene: a scene that's played fo[...]

When Jude agrees to lend her vintage chaise longue for the local Amateur Dramatics Society's production of George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple, little does she realize she'll end up in a starring role. It's an ambitious play, culminating in a dramatic execution scene: a scene that's played fo[...]

Forty years have elapsed since the death of the British jazz legend Tubby Hayes and yet his story still continues to captivate. Beginning as a precociously talented teenage saxophonist, he took first the local and then the international jazz scene by storm, displaying gifts equal to the finest Ameri[...]

The return to religion has perhaps become the dominant cliche of contemporary theory, which rarely offers anything more than an exaggerated eco of a political reality dominated by religious war. Somehow, the secular age seems to have been replaced by a new era, where political action flows directly [...]