A fascinating, fast-moving narrative history of the search for medicines since earliest times, from Neolithic hunter gatherers to the professional drug hunters of today.
The first book to explore menstruation in the current cultural and political landscape and to investigate the new wave of period activism taking the world by storm.After centuries of being shrouded in
A sophisticated new package for Natalia Ginzburg's classic fiction This powerful novel is set against the background of Italy from 1939 to 1944, from the anxious months before the country entered
A New York Times Best Seller!In 1947, the brutal, sadistic murder of a beautiful young woman named Elizabeth Short led to the largest manhunt in LA history. The killer teased and taunted the police an
From ?one of the most distinguished writers of modern Italy” (New York Review of Books), a classic novel of society in the midst of a war.This powerful novel is set against the background of Italy fro
Based on work first shown on 60 Minutes, a riveting, behind-the-scenes look of the Yazidi genocide and the terrorist threat it holds.The massacre of the Yazidi people by ISIS was nothing less than gen
After opening on October 5, 1985, Les Miserables remains the world’s longest running and most beloved musical. Productions have played in 319 cities across forty-two countries, it has won more than a
Seeks to document the events that happened during the World War II Nazi occupation of France, investigating the collaboration of French forces with the Vichy regime, the circumstances that contributed
James Baldwin was one of the great writers of the last century. In works that have become part of the American canon—Go Tell It on a Mountain, Giovanni’s Room, Another Country, The Fire Next Time, and
In 1947, the brutal, sadistic murder of a beautiful young woman named Elizabeth Short led to the largest manhunt in LA history. The killer teased and taunted the police and public for weeks, but his i
A biography of the inventor of dynamite and the founder of the Nobel Prize uses Nobel's unpublished letters to offer a compelling account of this introverted, sickly, moody, yet ultimately humane man.
Tired of the pace and noise of life near London and longing for a better place to raise their young children, Mary J. MacLeod (known to all as Julia) and her husband encountered their dream while vaca
From 15011505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. Leonardo was a charming, handsome fifty year-old at the peak of his career. Michelangelo was a temperame
When the Daily Mirror called The Chalon Heads ?one of the best-crafted, best-plotted, and most convincing British thrillers for decades,” you knew it had to be good. David Brock and Kathy Kolla are su
This first book in the Brock and Kolla Mystery series was shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association’s John Creasey Award for best first mystery and met with wide acclaim. It introduced the team of
Winner of the Bagutta Prize, The Manzoni Family set in ducal Italy and post-revolutionary France, captures the story of Alessandro Manzoni—celebrated Milanese nobleman, man of letters, and author of t
A concise and eye-opening look at the foundations of the current wave of terror, how it spread, and why the West did nothing.Lifting the mask of international terrorism, Terence Ward reveals a siniste
A 2017 Shirley Jackson Award NomineeNamed One of the Top 10 Thrillers to Read This Summer by Time Magazine.Misery meets The Vegetarian in this bestseller from Korea, a psychological thriller about lon
Thirty thousand years ago our prehistoric ancestors painted perfect images of animals on walls of tortuous caves, most often without any light. How was this possible? What meaning and messages did the
The stirring, little-known story of the forerunners to today's Special Forces.The OSSOffice of Strategic Servicescreated under the command of William Donovan, has been celebrated for its c
