Matthew Ridley

The familiar call of the common cuckoo, "cuck-oo," has been a harbinger of spring ever since our ancestors walked out of Africa...

Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivated with Rubicon—his master...

"A model of scientific writing: erudite, witty, and clear." ―New York Review of Books

In this Pulitzer Prize finalist and ...

The definitive story of the British adventurers who survived the trenches of World War I and went on to risk their lives climbi...

The first book Gerald Durrell's Corfu Trilogy: a bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu, now...

A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book
A GoodReads Reader's Choice

The summer of 1927 began with Charles Lindbergh crossing t...

A vivid historical account of the social world of Rome as it moved from republic to empire. In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth...

The sheer volume of talk about energy, energy prices, and energy policy on both sides of the political aisle suggests that we m...

The classic personal account of Watson and Crick’s groundbreaking discovery of the structure of DNA, now with an introduction b...

From Paleolithic flax to 3D knitting, explore the global history of textiles and the world they weave together in this enthrall...

From Steve McIntyre's earliest attempts to reproduce Michael Mann's Hockey Stick graph, to the explosive publication of his wor...

Selected for common reading at North Lake College

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s _The Great Ameri...

Charles Darwin’s classic that exploded into public controversy, revolutionized the course of science, and continues to transfor...

As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought...

Bjørn Lomborg, a former member of Greenpeace, challenges widely held beliefs that the world environmental situation is getting ...

Arguing that the ultimate resource is the human imagination coupled to the human spirit, Julian Simon led a vigorous challenge ...

“One of the deepest, most illuminating books about the history of life to have been published in recent years.” ―_The Economist...

An insightful history of the first hundred years of DNA, _Unraveling The Double Helix_tells the story one of the greatest trium...

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Inevitable— a sweeping vision of technology as a living force that can...

Patrick is still in love with his separated wife. Returning with their son after a trip to an amusement park, he begs, one last...