A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus's landing had crossed the Bering Strait ... more »

There is something quintessentially British about the seaside pier and many surviving today remain as individual in character as the resorts they enhance. Originally conceived as landing jetties for increasing paddle streamer traffic, the seaside pier soon became a popular venue for 'Promenading' or ... more »

Ce n'est pas au très-grand roi d'une nation guerriere que je l'adresse, c'est à l'homme éclairé qui n'a pas besoin d'une couronne pour être quelque chose par lui-même ; c'est au héros philosophe, qui, après avoir donné des leçons de politique aux rois, et de science militaire aux guerriers, en donnerait ... more »

Abraham Lincoln inspired feelings unlike those instilled by any previous commander-in-chief in America. Lincoln's Men draws on thousands of unpublished letters and diaries to tell the story of how a new and untested president could become Father Abraham. It is the story of the second American revolution ... more »

Chapter 1 The Will to Power At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. -Salvador Dalí How, first of all, was it possible for a poor Corsican boy, born with limited horizons, to scale such heights? By the time he had ... more »

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Published when Theodore Roosevelt was only twenty-three years old, The Naval War of 1812 was immediately hailed as a literary and scholarly triumph, and it is still considered the definitive book on the subject. It caused considerable controversy for its bold refutation of earlier accounts of the war ... more »

E-book exclusive: The author's tribute to her grandparents, survivors of Russia's twentieth century. An unforgettable epic of passion, betrayal, and survival set against the shimmering beauty and brutal terror of 1941 war-torn Leningrad. From the author of the international bestseller Tully comes an ... more »

IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME.... Once widely considered an impossibility--the stuff of science fiction novels--time travel may finally be achieved in the twenty-first century. In Breaking the Time Barrier, bestselling author Jenny Randles reveals the nature of recent, breakthrough experiments that are ... more »

In this stirring book, Martin Gilbert tells the intensely human story of Winston Churchill's profound connection to America, a relationship that resulted in an Anglo-American alliance that has stood at the center of international relations for more than a century. Winston Churchill, whose mother, Jennie ... more »

In Homer and the Epic, ten or twelve years ago, I examined the literary objections to Homeric unity. These objections are chiefly based on alleged discrepancies in the narrative, of which no one poet, it is supposed, could have been guilty. The critics repose, I venture to think, mainly on a fallacy ... more »

Schoolboys have been taught from their earliest years that Columbus discovered America. Few events in prehistoric times seem more probable now than that Columbus was not the first to discover it. The importance of his achievement over that of others lay in his own faith in his success, in his definiteness ... more »