Historia secreta de la bomba atómica desmantela la historia convencional de por qué se construyó esta bomba con nuevos documentos que demuestran que mucho antes de que la bomba aliada fuera operativa, estaba claro que Alemania no ten&...
Una brillante historia de la ciencia de los últimos 150 años que ofrece una nueva visión: distintas disciplinas cientí cas están convergiendo para dar lugar a nuevos hallazgos.Convergenciases una historia...
Una nueva y atrevida interpretación, que no sólo transforma las ideas establecidas acerca de los orígenes de la economía europea, sino también las que se refieren a la formación histórica de la Europa moder...
Community Farm Boyhood details Peter Watsonâs memories of what it was like being raised on a community farm in post-war rural England. The book recounts the short history of the community and the high ideals which inspired it, as well...
A Canadian estate locator is asked by a clientâs niece to determine the identity of a coma victim in an English hospital, where she is a nurse. The only clue is a number tattooed on his arm. The search leads to France and the identity...
The landscape is not only endlessly varied it is also constantly changing, and this is what makes it such a fascinating and challenging subject. Using a fabulous collection of landscape photography, Peter Watson gives you both the inspiration and knowledg...
From one of England's most distinguished intellectual historians comes "an exhilarating ride..that will stand the test of time as a masterful account of" ( The Boston Globe ) one of the West's most important intellectual movements: Atheism....
In 15,000 B.C. early humankind, who had evolved in Africa tens of thousands of years before and spread out to populate the Earth, arrived in Siberia, during the Ice Age. Because so much water was locked up at that time in the great ice sheets, several...
From the end of the Baroque age and the death of Bach in 1750 to the rise of Hitler in 1933, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among western nations into a dominant intellectual and cultural force more influential than France, Britain, Italy,...
Jimmy McGuireâs misdiagnosis led to him being placed in The Home, where he is subjected to sub-human brutality. No sooner does he escape than he is a suspect in an attack of a woman who has befriended him. Can Jimmyâs...
Featuring a cast of rogues and some of the world's prestigious art institutions, this title exposes the network behind the illegal trade in ancient artefacts. It reveals the existence of a web of tombaroli - tomb raiders - who steal classical artefacts,...
From Freud to Babbitt, from Animal Farm to Sartre to the Great Society, from the Theory of Relativity to counterculture to Kosovo, The Modern Mind is encyclopedic, covering the major writers, artists, scientists, and philosophers who produced the ideas...