Wealthy widow Norah O’Neill wonders if she will ever marry again. When her son decides to close the family’s failing toy factory, the manager, a...View more

But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans,...View more

From the moment of Albert Einstein's arrival in the United States in l933, the year of the Nazis' ascent to power in Germany, until his...View more

Your back wasn't designed for sitting in a chair for 40 hours a week. No wonder you are suffering from back pain and stress! The...View more

With a new Introduction by the author, this “erudite and brilliantly readable book” (The Observer, London) expertly dissects the political, economic, and social origins of...View more

A landmark and revealing joint biography of Elizabeth and John Macarthur, from one of Australia's most respected historians. Arriving in 1790, Elizabeth and John Macarthur,...View more

  What is mathematics, and why is it such a mystery to so many people? Mathematics is the greatest creation of human intelligence. It affects us all....View more

Surprises are in store as Stink excavates his backyard in search of a relic from an extinct beast -- and Judy lends him a little...View more

New York City is subsumed in arctic winds, dark nights, and white lights, its life unfolds, for it is an extraordinary hive of the imagination,...View more

The first and only collection of unpublished works by Kurt Vonnegut since his death. A fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to...View more

Feast your eyes on these amazing creatures before they disappear. This stampede of wild animals, from Chinese Alligator to Grevy's Zebra, are so rare, they're...View more

Little Billy strays into the forest, where he meets the Minpins--tiny people who live within the trees. The Minpins tell Billy about The Gruncher, who...View more