Advocates walking as a safer, less strenuous method of attaining physical fitness than running, emphasizing its cognitive and aesthetic benefits and its nearly universal application

A comprehensive, illustrated survey of the current knowledge of climatology covers important climate factors, patterns, and events, focusing on the forces that lead to catastrophes, and documents the processes and impact of climatic change

Banker Sir Charles Cormer hires a team to kill Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie to prevent the transfer of Selassie's wealth from his bank to the new Marxist government

Product Description: "Brilliant." The Guardian. Partially sighted and half-deaf with a three-year-old daughter, Jan met the charismatic Harry Little and for fifteen years they searched for their dream of an untouched wilderness. They found it deep in the Brazilian jungle, five days from the nearest settlement by canoe...read more

Describes different species of dinosaurs and what is known about their characteristics, traces the history of paleontology, and speculates on the reasons for their disappearance

Surveys exploration and discovery from the times of ancient explorers and wanderers through contemporary excursions to the farthest limits of our globe including outer space, the ocean depths, and beneath the surface of the Earth

Product Description: The Zwinger palace, a baroque palace in Dresden, was originally built in the 18th century at the behest of Augustus the Strong, and was extensively restored after World War II. This book examines the original architecture, the work of restoration, which aimed to replicate the original style, and the paintings, porcelain and scientific instruments that the palace houses...read more

Uses maps and photographs to recount the Allied invasion from June 6, 1944 to the liberation of Paris in September of 1944

Product Description: The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is stranded on an uninhabited island far away from any shipping routes. With patience and ingenuity, he transforms his island into a tropical paradise. For twenty-four years he has no human company, until one Friday, he rescues a prisoner from a boat of cannibals...read more

Product Description: Frank Smith is an ordinary man who has led an extraordinary life. This remarkable book presents 130 of the paintings which, in 'naive' style, illustrate the privations and heartaches of his life, from his early years in a Kentish workhouse to the deaths in quick succession of his wife and son...read more

Product Description: The shocking immediacy of Daniel Defoe's description of a plague-racked city makes it one of the most convincing accounts of the Great Plague of 1665 ever written.

Traces the history of slavery, the trans-Atlantic trade that transported eleven million Africans from their homeland to the New World, in a study enhanced by numerous full-color and black-and-white illustrations.

The world's most successful and popular ice dancing couple shares their own story, from their working-class childhoods in Nottingham to world stardom, and talks frankly about the behind-the-scenes reality of their astounding career, revealing the conflicts and chaos.

The successful and popular ice dancers share their story, from their working-class childhoods in Nottingham to world stardom, and discuss the behind-the-scenes reality of their career, revealing the conflicts and chaos

Provides historical information about battles from Gaugamela in 331 B.C. to Desert Storm, and uses printed transparent overlays to demonstrate what the battlefields looked like at the time of battle and as they look today (view table of contents)

The ice dancers describe their early lives and training, their many amateur and professional competitions, and their relationship with each other

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This dazzling book takes us on a voyage of discovery around the world at the turn of the last millennium, when for the first time the world was in essence a unity. Islam bridged Eurasia, western Europe, and North Africa. Vikings, with links to Scandinavia and Russia, had just arrived in North America. These and other peoples reached out to create links and put isolated cultures unwittingly in touch. John Man vividly captures these epochal events, and depicts the colorful peoples that defined the world's mix of stability and change, of isolation and contact. In an immensely learned portrayal, he traces enduring cultural strands that became part of the world as we know it today. In text, maps, and pictures, most in color, and drawing on the expertise of two dozen consultants, John Man has created a concise compendium of all the major cultures of the lost millennial world of 1000. In some cultures--Europe, Islam, China, and Japan--written records contain a vast range of materials, often revealing sharply focused details of life and personality. Here lie startling contrasts with today's world, and even foreshadowing of the future that are equally astonishing in their familiarity. For nonliterate cultures--in the United States, Southeast Asia, Polynesia, Africa--this book draws on a wealth of archeological research, some of it made available to nonspecialists for the first time.

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A survey on the history of letters runs a course from the first symbols pressed into clay tablets to the advent of the Internet.

An exciting look into the world of astronomy details the existence of comets, meteors, and asteroids and follows these extraordinary phemonena through historical references in art, literature, and science, in an informative companion book to Hyperspace. (view table of contents)

Documents the history and impact of Johan Gutenberg's printing press, covering the process of creating printed books before and after its introduction, the press's particular influence on the printed bible and on Christianity, and Gutenberg's personal trials and triumphs. (view table of contents)