The Cabinet of Curiosities

Reducere. A collection of thirty-six forty eerie, mysterious, intriguing, and very short stories by the acclaimed authors Stefan Bachmann, Katherine Catmull,...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Douglas PrestonAuthor: Lincoln ChildIn an ancient tunnel underneath New York City a charnel house is discovered. Inside are...

Reducere. In one of NPR's 100 Best Thrillers Ever, FBI agent Pendergast discovers thirty-six murdered bodies in a New York City charnel house . . . and now, ...

Reducere. Hurtling through the atmosphere, in a blaze of light and reverberating percussions, the arrival of a meteorite on Earth is a magical, rare, and pre...

The arrangement of the material, indicated by the chapter headings, draws attention to a variety of areas not normally associated with dominant per...

Reducere. Cabinets of curiosities were private collections of curious objects that were put together by aristocrats, rich merchants and travellers. Over the ...

What can a pesticide pump, a jar full of sand, or an old calico print tell us about the Anthropocene--the age of humans? Just as paleontologists lo...

Quoting hundreds of passages from Greek and Roman authors, this light-hearted book gives a vividly direct picture of the origins of modern medicine...