Elegant, passionate, and filled with the love of God's creation, AbrahamJoshua Heschel's "The Sabbath has been hailed as a classic of Jewishspirituality ever since its original publication--and has be...
The Unexpected Einstein tackles many unexpected and rarely covered aspects of Albert Einsteins relatives, colleagues, lovers, enemies, lifelong friends, and relative strangers. In their own words, the...
Applying his controversial theory of evolution to the origins of the human species, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man was the culmination of his life's work. This Penguin Classics edition is edited...
This eye-opening, well-researched examination of mankind's oldest competitor is filled with weirdly fascinating information about the history of the rat and the way it consistently outsmarts man. Illu...
Featuring dozens of color photographs from Darwin’s original publication, this edition—issued to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth—makes this classic study newly accessible to modern...
A warrior‘s life, on and off the battlefield. From the Samurai of Japan to US rifleman, explore the dramatic experiences of soldiers who‘ve fought battles and paid the price of warfare. Experience lif...
Top Mafia hit man. Doting father. For 30 years, Richard 'the Ice Man' Kuklinski led a double life beyond anything ever seen on The Sopranos, becoming one of the most notorious professional assassins ...
Frank Dempsey is back ? but this time as a father of a very different kind? Newly-wed Frank Dempsey, a former non-believing Catholic priest, can now luxuriate in the sublime joys of his wife?s arms an...
Born on August 5, 1930 on his grandparents? farm in Auglaize County, Ohio, Neil Armstrong was the eldest of three children of Stephen and Viola Engel Armstrong. His family moved several times before t...
From the first days of the US, a battle over money raged between the democrats, who wanted cheap money and feared the concentration of financial interests in the hands of a few, and the capitalists, w...
'If you are interested in vocabulary that is both spectacularly useful and beautifully useless, read on. I have read the "OED" so you don't have to!' Weighing in at 137 pounds, the "Oxford English Dic...
This collection of work by Henri Cartier-Bresson is the ultimateretrospective look at a lifetime's achievement. It brims with classicphotographs that have become icons of the medium, as well as rarely...
Man About the Kitchen is designed to introduce men of all ages to the kitchen and to transform them with minimal pain into competent cooks. Recipe 21: The Male Cook: This is becoming more popular, but...
On the border between West and East, a Jewish man with a passion for the Arab world. Tom Reiss first came across Nussimbaum when he went to the ex-USSR to research Russia of the origins of our ideas a...
Michael Coren offers a thought-provoking and entertaining story of the fascinating life of J.R.R. Tolkien. Readers will learn about the author's childhood in South Africa, his youth and adulthood in G...
George Soros’ web of influence is documented and exposed. No one else in modern politics has anywhere near the power and influence of George Soros, both domestically and internationally. Backed by th...
The dramatic events leading up to the appearance of white smoke over the Vatican and the public declaration from the balcony of St Peters- Habemus Papam- has been the most remarkable yet in the electi...
From a man with far too much time on his hands comes this collection of barmy correspondence, guaranteed to put a smile on the face of even the most dedicated customer services assistant. Whether hes ...
This exciting and timely volume presents the principles for the primary prevention of chronic conditions by exercise. It discusses the health consequences of inactivity, the biologic basis for the ben...
A learned, lively history of the Great Wall's evolution that cuts it down to size without diminishing its allure.No, you can't see it from the moon. Nor is it an unbroken, serpentine glory of many tho...
Marco Polo's journey from Venice, through Europe and most of Asia, to the court of Kublai Khan in China is one of the most audacious in history. His account of his experiences, known simply as "The Tr...
John Man follows the trail of the alphabet from its origins in Ancient Egypt to its present form, and considers how it shaped the western world.The idea behind the alphabet — that language with all it...
Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive tribe of hard-fighting, horse-riding female warriors. Equal to men in battle, legends claimed they c...
Companies constantly present technological developments-new materials, new mechanisms, and new ways to enhance existing products and services. Yet these seldom lead to truly new ideas. Why? Humans ar...
nonkonformista, wizjoner, wynalazca, geniusz, adoptowany, bez studiów, wyrzucony z pracy. Podziwiał go, a potem opłakiwał cały świat. Założył koncern Apple, stworzył komputery Macintosh, iPo...
"Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy" continues to evolve at a rapid pace. Growing clinical experience and additional clinical trials are resulting in changes in how patients are selected for CRT. This ...
'Professor Ard-Pieter de Man's new book, The Network Economy, is a substantial contribution to the literature on alliance management and, more importantly, an important contribution to the literature ...