Everyone can benefit from understanding the Bible, and Time-Life Books' Everything You Need to Know about the Bible is the ultimate visual guide. This helpful book is filled with photos, illustrations, art, and maps, plus sidebars throughout featuring fun facts, Top Ten lists, verses to know, and mo[...]
Hillary Clinton embodies a world of "firsts": The first First Lady to have an active - and controversial role - in her husband's presidency, the first American First Lady to run for political office (and win it), the first female United States Senator from the state of New York, and certainly not la[...]
Robin Williams' death, a suicide at 63, touched a collective nerve, and the hearts of his myriad fans. Some looked back with awe at the nonpareil comedy he pinwheeled, in clubs, concerts and late-night TV, and in indelible characters like Mindy's Mork and Aladdin's Genie. Many more thought of Willia[...]
"Time" illuminates the story of America in a fascinating new way in this magnificent volume which collects the most iconic images in the nation's history. Here are indelible photographs - from the assassination of J F Kennedy to the first landing on the moon. Here are breath-taking paintings and fas[...]
More than sixty years after her 1943 death in Auschwitz, the words of fourteen-year-old Rutka Laskier, a young Jewish girl from Bedzin, Poland, offer a poignant study of the everyday lives of Polish Jews caught up in the Holocaust.[...]
Robots is the first book in an exciting new series from TIME For Kids. Aimed at readers who want to know more, this book answers the questions that children ages 8 through 12 have about robots. Do you know what makes something a robot? Can you name the six types of robot? What kinds of robots are be[...]
Long known as "The Great Communicator," Ronald Reagan has been credited with leading an ideological renaissance of the Republican Party and has become an icon to many Republicans and party leaders.
Now, ten years following his death, and twenty-five years following the end of his two terms in of[...]
During the Vietnam War, Time reporter Pham Xuan An befriended everyone who was anyone in Saigon, including American journalists such as David Halberstam and Neil Sheehan, the CIA's William Colby, and the legendary Colonel Edward Lansdale--not to mention the most influential members of the South Viet[...]
Robert Morris: America's First Financier
Cyrus McCormick's Reaper and the Industrialization of Farming
John D. Rockefeller and the Modern Corporation
J. P. Morgan Saves the Country
Henry Ford and the Model T
Charles Merrill and the Democratization of Stock Ownership
Dav[...]
What do Bill Gates, Henry Ford, J.P. Morgan, Mary Kay Ash, and Walt Disney all have in common? Uncompromising vision, a willingness to take risks, and exceptional business acumen. Not only did these individuals amass great fortunes, they revolutionized the business world and helped shape society as [...]
Sometimes the easiest way to cook something is also the best. From the hundreds of effortless dishes published in Gourmet over the years, the editors selected the best loved, the most memorably simple, and the riotously tasty--the ones that have entered their personal repertoires. They include veget[...]
As a nation, we are in love with Italian food. Over the years, "Gourmet "helped shape our tastes, expanding our repertoire from pizza and spaghetti with red sauce to risotto, osso buco, and panna cotta. For this sterling collection, the editors chose their best from the hundreds of Italian recipes p[...]
This illustrated cookbook includes 50 recipes for everything from pesto, barbeque sauce, and tamales to refreshing cocktails and loads of new desserts. Throughout, 'budding chefs will get to know the stony science of cannabis cooking and discover delicious treats courtesy of High Times magazine. Inc[...]
Whether you can drive it 300 yards or hit flush irons that never leave your target, it all comes down to one simple act: getting the ball into the hole. Much has been written about the putter but never like what you'll find in "The Best Putting Instruction Book Ever!" In this fourth instalment of be[...]
This richly illustrated volume will take readers on a marvellous journey into the unknown. From Bigfoot to the Bermuda Triangle, aliens to yetis, dowsing to the "Da Vinci Code", telepathy to "Crossing Over", "Time" will separate truth from rumour and fact from fantasy: The book includes new scientif[...]
Take a close-up look at Benjamin Franklin, a jack-of-all-trades who served his country well. Interviews with experts and lively writing deliver the accurate reporting you expect from TIME For Kids(R). Historical reproductions and contemporary photographs capture the life of this ingenious man and sh[...]
This book reconstructs the first two decades of Time and Tide (1920-1939) and explores the periodical's significance for an interwar generation of British women writers and readers. Unique in establishing itself as the only female-run intellectual weekly in the golden age of the weekly review, Time [...]
Bicycling Magazine's 1000 All-Time Best Tips by Ben Hewitt, the most information-packed collection of advice on road and mountain biking, has now been revised and updated for anyone seeking to become a better cyclist.
Jump-start your cycling savvy with this compilation of proven tips from the st[...]
Readers will jump-start their cycling savvy with Jason Sumner's compilation of proven tips from the editors of Bicycling magazine. The book was first published as Bicycling Magazine's 900 All-Time Best Tips in 2000 and then in 2005 as Bicycling Magazine's 1,000 All-Time Best Tips; but with seven yea[...]
When it comes to fresh vegetables, nothing comes close to growing your own - but where to start? For those of us that crave the crisp taste of home-grown tomatoes, peppers, courgettes and more but lack the crucial experience and know-how, it can be difficult to make those first steps to transform a [...]