Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist, Paperback - Thomas Levenson

Reducere. A fascinating slice of true-crime history that unfolds in 1695, when law enforcement was unheard of and modern money was little more than a concept...

Paperback edition of Levenson's biography of Isaac Newton, which pays particular attention to his pursuit of criminal money counterfeiter William C...

The first account of the role Britain played in Einstein's life--first by inspiring his teenage passion for physics, then by providing refuge from ...

Reducere. Embark on a journeythrough the Old and New Testament with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson asthey explore exotic and spice-laden places in searc...

Full of fascinating how-to skills and evocative illustrations, this must-have guide will appeal to Baker Street Irregulars of all ages.This reader'...

Flamingo detective Fabio and associate Gilbert are holidaying on the world's fastest train, across which they soon must track down the culprit in a...

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Reducere. In Am I Making Myself Clear?, business leader and author Terry Felber shares the secrets of the world's greatest communicators, equipping readers t...

Reducere. So, you know what mathematics is, right? Well, if you do, you're a smarter person than Nobel laureates Albert Einstein and Eugene Wigner, who were ...

A Journey Through The Universe is a grand tour of the most amazing celestial objects and how they fit together to build the cosmos.Publisher: Hodde...

In Sherlock Unlocked, Daniel Smith looks behind what we think we know about the well-known sleuth and reveals fascinating little-known facts of whi...

A narrative of early capitalism's most famous scandal, a speculative frenzy that nearly bankrupted the British state during the hot summer of 1720 ...

Reducere. Rob Morgan's inimitable style will help people reacquaint themselves with the hymns of the faithful. His goal is to keep these traditional hymns vi...

"Nazi Gold" is the real-life story of the theft of a fabulous treasurethe German national gold and foreign currency reserves, which disappeared in ...

Reducere. A narrative of early capitalism's most famous scandal, a speculative frenzy that nearly bankrupted the British state during the hot summer of 1720 ...

A voyage through the mind to discover what consciousness really is, and what we can learn when it goes awry.Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General D...

Reducere. The world's most beloved mystery writers celebrate their favorite mystery novels in this gorgeously wrought collection, featuring essays by Michael...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Russian novelist and moral philosopher Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) ranks as one of the worlds great writers, and his War and Peace has b...

The story of the modest city-state that would become the birthplace of democracy

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Reducere. Pay attention to that violin you used in high school. Look closely at the next violin you see at a garage sale. It might be worth millions of dolla...

The thrilling story of the Schneider Trophy, a series of glamorous air races that captivated both sides of the Atlantic and became a driver and cel...

Reducere. From Robert Falcon Scott's final journal entry to Jon Krakauer's reckless solo climb of the Devil's Thumb, David Roberts and the editors of Outside...

Reducere. Now regarded as the bane of many college students' existence, calculus was one of the most important mathematical innovations of the seventeenth ce...

The story of the amazing discovery of Archimedes' lost worksPublisher: Orion Publishing CoAuthor(s): William NoelIllustration(s): 1 MapsNumber of p...

Reducere. To the Edge of the World is an adventure in travel--full of extraordinary personalities, more than a century of explosive political, economic, and ...

In the tradition of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, an extraordinary Dickensian story of wealth and eccentricity.

The thrilling story of the Schneider Trophy, a series of glamorous air races that captivated both sides of the Atlantic and became a driver and cel...

Themusic, the marriages, the polo, the drugs, thetrans-Saharan trucking schemethe drummer best-known for his work in Cream and his contributions to...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nicholas FaithThis fully revised third edition of Cognac: The story of the world's greatest brandy provides an authoritativ...

Reducere. *Includes 30 pictures of Minoan art, ruins, and more. *Explains the links between Minoan culture and religion with the Ancient Greeks. *Details how...

For fans of true crime, this fourth entry in the Profiles in Crime series presents history's most "elite" serial killers--master murderers who stre...