Bat Chain Puller (the title is taken from a Captain Beefheart song) is an incisive portrait of a culture unanchored and adrift.

In this lighthearted guided tour of Latin, journalist and former Latin tutor Harry Mount breathes life back into the greatest language of all, drawing on everything from a Monty Python grammar lesson to Angelina Jolie's tattoos.

Fast-paced, suspenseful, and utterly satisfying, The Demon Under the Microscope is a sweeping history of the discovery of the first antibiotic and its dramatic effect on the world of medicine and beyond.

Continuing the inspiring story begun in his first book, Every Second Counts captures the mind-set of a man who has beaten incredible odds...

From one of the world's top investing experts, and the best-selling author of Stocks for the Long Run, comes a book that challenges certain conventional wisdom.

Lying due north of Australia, New Guinea is among the world's largest islands. In 1942, when World War II exploded onto its shores, it was an inhospitable, cursorily mapped, disease-ridden land of dense jungle, towering mountain peaks, deep valleys, and fetid swamps.

In 1998, Moscow-born Sergey Brin and Midwest-born Larry Page dropped out of graduate school at Stanford University to, in their own words, “change the world” through a search engine that would organize every bit of information on the Web for free.

Kinky Friedman, the original Texas Jew boy, guides readers through the sights, sounds, food, and sundry oddities of his favorite Texas city.

In the Country of Men is a stunning depiction of a child confronted with the private fallout of a public nightmare. But above all, it is a debut of rare insight and literary grace.

"Internal Combustion" is the compelling tale of corruption and manipulation that subjected the U.S. and the world to an oil addiction that could have been avoided…

One of the most successful coaches in the history of basketball offers his personal account of a season like no other: the extraordinary ride of the 2003-2004 Los Angeles Lakers....

This is a book for anyone who feels they've fallen short of their career potential, or wondered if the things they do--or don't do--at work are sabotaging their careers.

The 107th Congress faced a time like no other in the life of the nation.

The more you are liked, or the higher your likeability factor, the happier your life will be....

Men's Health(r) editor-in-chief David Zinczenko, the New York Times best-selling author of The Abs Diet, has applied his highly popular voice and insightful research methods to solving one of the great challenges of the day-helping women understand men.

The Bayeux Tapestry is the world's most famous textile-an exquisite 230-foot-long embroidered panorama depicting the events surrounding the Norman Conquest of 1066.

This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living giant of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time.

The ideals of freedom and individual rights that inspired America’s Founding Fathers did not spring from a vacuum.

The main reason people struggle financially is because they have spent years in school but learned nothing about money...

A secular regime is toppled by Western intervention, but an Islamic backlash turns the liberators into occupiers. Caught between interventionists at home and fundamentalists abroad, a prime minister flounders as his ministers betray him, alliances fall apart, and a runaway general makes policy in the field.

First published in 1994, The Warren Buffet Way gave investors their first in-depth look at the innovative investment and business strategies behind this living legend's spectacular success....

A lively and provocative look at how evolution shapes our behavior and our lives.

Using new findings on the brain, studies of social changes, evolutionary biology, and psychology, the Peases teach you how to make the most of your relationships, or at least begin to understand....

On the night of March 2, 1962, in Hershey, Pennsylvania, Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a game against the New York Knickerbockers....