Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshiped it, and the Church used it to fend off heretics. Today, zero lies at the he...

The conventional history of nations, even continents, is a history of warfare.

Reducere. In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct ...

Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spendin...

Reducere. Transhumanism is a recent movement that extols man's right to shape his own evolution, by maximizing the use of scientific technologies, to enhance...

Reducere. As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline and renewal have had a long...

Reducere. This beautifully written, informative study is a portrait, a history and a superb guide book, capturing fully the seductive beauty and the many lay...

DescriptionArdkinglas is a 45, 000-acre estate in Cairndow, a beautiful area of the Highlands at the head of Loch Fyne. Sir Andrew Noble, the autho...

Reducere. "Fred Kaplan's Lincoln offers penetrating insights on Lincoln's ability to explain complex ideas in language accessible to a broad range of readers...

Weaves political, social and art history of Florence into a lively whole. This book features photographs and illustrations and line drawings that d...

Reducere. Clementine Churchill -- shy, passionate, and high-strung -- shunned publicity but was in the limelight throughout her adult life. As a young woman,...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A guide to the use of the avian embryo in studies of vertebrate development. It includes approaches to analysis of the chick genome, gene knock-out...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mark StevensOther: Carol Bloom StevensKing Icahn is an unparalleled human drama. It is the story of a man who rose from hum...

Designated a World Heritage Site, the landscape around Avebury in north Wiltshire contains a remarkable wealth of archaeological remains, including...

In this book Geert Mak returns to the small Frisian village of his childhood, Jorwert (pop. Jowert has more in common with an English village than ...

Reducere. This book, a National Book Award nominee in 1988, is the life of Thomas Jefferson as seen through the prism of his love affair with Monticello. For...

The story of the famous painting by Picasso and its diverse meanings from its conception to the present day

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

To be effective, sovereignty must be secured through force or consent by those living in a territory, and accepted externally by other sovereign st...

Reducere. Anthony J Randall examines the life of Joan Clarke and her role in breaking the Naval Enigma at Bletchley Park, alongside Alan Turing. An outstandi...

Reducere. NATIONAL BESTSELLER A dramatic insider account of the world of private military contracting. Armored cars, burner phones, top-notch weaponry and to...

Reducere. Here is the riveting story of the English language, from its humble beginnings as a regional dialect to its current preeminence as the one global l...

Description"Sargent makes you feel simultaneously drawn into and excluded from the sisters' world, a phenomenon that Erica E. -Hirshler explores in...

Burundi is a small Central African country with a complex history of ethnic tension. This book traces the origins of its political crises, sheds li...

While his early childhood was unimpressive, Einstein later earned the respect of the entire world and won the coveted Nobel Prize. His name is the ...

In this widely hailed book, NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten fuses the story of the Bacardi family and their famous rum business with Cuba's tumultuou...

Reducere. DescriptionRobert Beck, better known as Iceberg Slim, was an American pimp who subsequently became an influential author among a primarily African-...

Reducere. WINNER OF THE 2014 SEYMOUR MEDAL sponsored by the Society for American Baseball Research and finalist for 2014 SABR Larry Ritter AwardThough his pi...

Reducere. DescriptionMeet John W. Tukey, one of the most consequential statisticians and original thinkers of the twentieth century. Growing up one hundred y...

How did Christmas become today's bulging stocking of goodies?

Reducere. The first ever Biography of Robert Newton..."He was never an actor, he was always like that, a little devil...!" The man laughs; laughter in his vo...