A major biography of Michael Faraday (1791-1867), one of the giants of 19th century science and discoverer of electricity who was at the centre of an extraordinary scientific renaissance in London.
From the bestselling author of 'The Lighthouse Stevensons', a gripping history of the drama and danger of wrecking since the 18th-century - and the often grisly ingenuity of British wreckers, scavengers of the sea.
Ungewöhnliche Einblicke in den Alltag der Neurochirurgie – und in das menschliche Gehirn: Ein weltweit renommierter Gehirnchirurg erzählt von außergewöhnlichen Fällen und seinem Alltag im Operations-Saal.
Esta Crónica novelada es una historia, hilada entre fragmentos, desde 1883 a 1968 −verídica en relación a tiempo, lugares, pueblos: Putaendo y Panquehue, posteriormente ciudades− referentes a la vida de la protagonista, María Jesús y a su padre, Juan Camus Lepe, personaje destacado por su responsabilidad, sentido del honor y rígida autoridad.
The House by the Church-Yard - Sheridan Le Fanu - The House by the Churchyard (1863) is a novel by Sheridan Le Fanu that combines elements of the mystery novel and the Historical novel.
From the best-selling author of THE DINOSAUR HUNTERS and THE LOST KING OF FRANCE comes the story of how our modern world was forged - in rivets, grease and steam; in blood, sweat and human imagination.
A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE WORK OF NON-FICTION A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR'Meticulous, clinical and sobering, a shockingly important and incisive book' David OlusogaVast and revelatory, Dan Gretton's I You We Them is an unprecedented study of the perpetrators of crimes against humanity: the 'desk killers' who ordered and directed some of the worst atrocities of the modern era.
El cientifico y escritor Javier Cacho, autor de la Trilogia sobre los heroes de la conquista de los Polos, nos presenta la apasionante historia del Fram, el buque en el que navegaron tres de los grandes exploradores polares -los noruegos F.
Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books, Richard Holmes's dazzling portrait of the age of great scientific discovery is a groundbreaking achievement.
Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2018The beautifully illustrated, heartbreaking story of an innocent man in a Soviet gulag, told for the first time in English.
From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize-shortlisted 'Return of a King', the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time.
A brilliant new reading of the Bayeux Tapestry that radically alters our understanding of the events of 1066 and reveals the astonishing story of the survival of early medieval Europe's greatest treasure.
En diciembre de 1914, sir Ernest Shackleton y una tripulación de veintisiete hombres zarpó de Georgia del Sur a bordo del Endurance rumbo al Polo Sur, con el objetivo de cruzar la Antártida, el último continente inexplorado, por tierra.
Callous Disregard is the account of how a doctor confronted first a disease and then the medical system that sought and still seeks to deny that disease, leaving millions of children to suffer and a world at risk.
In meinem Buch geht es um alle geschichtlichen Ereignisse aus der Vergangenheit, die in Archiven und von Heimtarforschern aufgezeichnet wurden und auch teilweise Urkunden zu finden sind.
An ';intriguing and accessible' (Publishers Weekly) interpretation of the life of Galileo Galilei, one of history's greatest and most fascinating scientists, that sheds new light on his discoveries and how he was challenged by science deniers.
Dieter Wellershoff folgt der Darstellung von Liebe und Leidenschaft, Verführung und Ehebruch in exemplarischen Werken der Literatur der letzten zweihundert Jahre, wobei er das Werk und die jeweilige Lebensgeschichte der Autoren, von Goethe bis Houllebecq, spannend und hellsichtig miteinander verknüpft.
Part historical narrative, part travelogue through the wilds of the West and part environmental polemic, 'Selling Your Father's Bones' is a thrilling journey through the history and wilderness of the stunning area of landscape that is Continental USA.
Professor Tudor Parfitt, a real-life British Indiana Jones, has made the biggest discovery of the last 3,000 years - the secret location of the fabled Ark of the Covenant.
Now a major TV series'A masterpiece that reads like a thriller' Time OutA gripping and probing account of the biggest criminal manhunt in British history.
