A powerful, moving, and very personal memoir of "dancing around death" under the Nazi regime, by the father of billionaire financier George Soros. "Life is beautiful," begins Tividar Soros in this powerful and very personal memoir. "But luck must be on your side." Nevertheless, …
More than a half-century after Adolf Hitler committed suicide in a Berlin bunker, the dictator's legacy lives on in this chilling history. More than a half-century after Adolf Hitler committed suicide in a Berlin bunker, the dictator?s legacy and influence lives on, precisely as…
Members of the French National Assembly share advice, expertise, and family lore in a full-color celebration of French cuisine that provides more than one hundred seventy traditional and authentic recipes.
Hanumān, the red-faced monkey chief and ninth grammarian of Hindu mythology, is the protagonist of this dazzling narrative--a mind-journey to the temple city of Galta in India and the occasion for Octavio Paz, the celebrated Mexican poet and essayist, to explore the nature of na…
"Hanumān, the red-faced monkey chief and ninth grammarian of Hindu mythology, is the protagonist of this dazzling prose poem--a mind-journey to the temple city of Galta in India and the occation for Octavio Paz, the celebrated Mexican poet and essayist, to explore the nature of …
"What will planet Earth be like in twenty years? At mid-century? In the year 2100? Prescient and convincing, this book is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future. Never has the world offered more promise for the future and been more fraught with dangers. Attali anticip…
Prescient and convincing, this book is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future.
Reveals the true stories behind some of medicine's most important accidental discoveries, explaining how penicillin, chemotherapy drugs, x-rays, antidepressants, and Viagra were discovered while researchers were searching for something else.
What do penicillin, chemotherapy drugs, X-rays, antidepressants, and Viagra have in common? They were each discovered accidentally, found in the search for something else. Winston Churchill once said,?Men occasionally stumble across the truth, but most of them pick themselves up…
The Lost Colony is America's oldest unsolved mystery. In this remarkable example of historical detective work, Lee Miller goes back to the original evidence and offers a fresh solution to the enduring legend. She establishes beyond doubt that the tragedy of the Lost Colony did n…