In this amusing and brilliantly conceived book, Michael Sims introduces you to your body. Moving from head to toe, Sims blends cultural history with evolutionary theory to produce a wonderfully original narrative in which he analyzes the visible parts of the body. In this fascinating brew of science[...]
A "Washington Post" Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011 As he was composing what was to become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White was obeying that oft-repeated maxim: "Write what you know." Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats-White knew all of these characters in the ba[...]
From Mahatma Gandhi and John F. Kennedy to Martin Luther King and Leo Tolstoy, the works of Henry David Thoreau - author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, surveyor, schoolteacher, engineer - have long been an inspiration to many. But who was the unsophisticated young man who in 1837 beca[...]
Leblanc's creation, "Gentleman Thief Arsene Lupin", is everything you would expect from a French aristocrat - witty, charming, brilliant, sly ...and possibly the greatest thief in the world.[...]
It is the late Victorian era and society is fascinated by - and worried about - that suspicious character known as the New Woman. She rides bicycles and drives those newfangled automobiles and doesn't like to be told what to do. In crime fiction as everywhere else, such women are breaking all the ru[...]
The power and stunning presentation of the revelations contained in the "New York Times" best seller "The Harbinger: The Ancient Mystery That Holds the Secret of America's Future"--in audiovisual form.
Is there an ancient mystery that lies behind everything from 9/11 to the collapse of the Amer[...]