From the acclaimed author of The Nobel Prize comes this fascinating portrait of four of the greatest minds in the history of science.

The riveting story of the English language, from its humble beginnings as a regional dialect to its current preeminence as the one global language, spoken by over two billion people worldwide.

A popular history of battlefield medicine from the Revolutionary War to the present, told through stirring portraits of our unsung heroes, America's military medics and corpsmen.

A fascinating look at the people and events that brought wrenching, often enduring, and always bloody change to countries and societies almost overnight.

For everyone who has read Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, here is an exceptional insight into da Vinci’s inner world in his own words and images—a dazzling array of invention and observation from perhaps the greatest genius of Western civilization.

Our changing concept of time and the surprising, often mysterious origins of the calendar come to life in this richly informative, beautifully written book.

Much is known about the Allies’ effort to break the Nazis’ Enigma Code. Here is the full —until now untold— story of how the Americans and England’s Bletchley Park combined to break the Japanese codes and turn the tide of the war in the Pacific.

A brilliantly researched history of the harnessing of an unknown force--once called “fleet fire”--into the ubiquitous resource that has illuminated our world and changed our lives.

A provocative reexamination of one of the turning points in the history of science and thought, the epic confrontation between Calileo Galilei and the Roman Catholic Church, an event that would forever define the modern era.

They left Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Michigan, and Stanford to drive ambulances on the French front, and on the killing fields of World War I they learned that war was no place for gentlemen.