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Big Meg: The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator that Ever Lived
Tim Flannery - Atlantic Monthly Press Format: Hardcover
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Internationally bestselling author and renowned scientist Tim Flannery and his daughter, scientist Emma Flannery, delivers an informative-yet-intimate portrait of the megalodon, an extinct shark and the largest predator of all timeWhen Tim Flannery was a boy he found a fossilized tooth... |
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The Slavic Myths
Noah Charney - Thames & Hudson Format: Hardcover
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A Pulitzer-nominated author and one of the great public intellectuals of Slavic culture bring to life the unfamiliar myths and legends of the Slavic world.In the first collection of Slavic myths for an international readership, Noah Charney and Svetlana Slapšak expertly weave together... |
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Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022
Frank Trentmann - Knopf Format: Hardcover
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A gripping and nuanced history of the German people from World War II to the war in Ukraine, including revealing new primary source material on Germany's transformation
In 1945, Germany lay in ruins, morally and materially. Its citizens stood condemned by history, responsible for a horrifying... |
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Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty
Mandy Matney - William Morrow Format: Hardcover
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The highly anticipated inside look at the collapse of the Murdaugh dynasty by the celebrated investigative journalist and creator of the #1 hit Murdaugh Murders Podcast, Mandy Matney.Years before the name Alex Murdaugh was splashed across every major media outlet in America, local South... |
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Flight of the WASP: The Rise, Fall, and Future of America's Original Ruling Class
Michael Gross - Atlantic Monthly Press Format: Hardcover
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Fifteen families.Four hundred years. The complex saga of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite inAmerica's history. . For decades, writers from Cleveland Amory to JosephAlsop to the editors of Politico have proclaimed thediminishment of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, who for generations... |
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Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World
Times UK - HarperCollins UK Format: Hardcover
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Our world as it is today in one beautiful volume. Fully updated mapping with over 200,000 place names. World topics include migration, health and resources. The 16th edition of The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World has been fully updated. At 45 cm high, this impressive large-scale... |
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The History of Computing: A Very Short Introduction
Doron Swade - Oxford University Press
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringThis lively Very Short Introduction reviews the central events, machines, and people that feature in established accounts of the history of computing, critically examining received perceptions and providing a fresh look at the nature... |
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How Life Works: A User's Guide to the New Biology
Philip Ball - University of Chicago Press Format: Hardcover
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A cutting-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, how to enhance it, and what possibilities it offers. Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works - the idea of the genome... |
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