Product Description: A unique account of Thomas Jefferson's passion for science, the influence of science on his vision for America, and the amazing extent of his scientific contributions In the voluminous literature on Thomas Jefferson, little has been written about his passionate interest in science...read more

Offers tips on saving money on accommodations and restaurants while traveling in Southeast Asia

Product Description: Russ Thornton is a hard-hitting journalist known for his ability to take on big targets in government and in business. An old flame, now a Capitol Hill staffer, contacts him out of the blue wanting to disclose some top secret information...read more

Product Description: Twice the speed, twice the trouble, twice the fun—Charlie and Drummond Clark return in this riveting, fast-paced sequel to Once a Spy. Charlie and Drummond Clark are on the lam, hiding out in Switzerland near a clinic which is testing revolutionary treatments for Alzheimer's on Drummond...read more

Product Description: Drummond Clark was once a spy of legendary proportions.  Now Alzheimer’s disease has taken its toll and he’s just a confused old man who’s wandered away from home, waiting for his son to fetch him.   When Charlie Clark takes a break from his latest losing streak at the track to bring Drummond back to his Brooklyn home, they find it blown sky high—and then bullets start flying in every direction...read more

Product Description: Thomas Jefferson once wrote to a friend that politics was his "duty" but natural history was his "passion." As this book shows, he was always a man for whom nature was important. With his devotion to detailed knowledge, precise calculation, and rational enquiry, natural history related to everything he did, as a farmer, as a philosopher, and as a citizen...read more

Product Description: The uncovering in the mid-1700s of fossilized mastodon bones and teeth at Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, signaled the beginning of a great American adventure. The West was opening up and unexplored lands beckoned. Unimagined paleontological treasures awaited discovery: strange horned mammals, birds with teeth, flying reptiles, gigantic fish, diminutive ancestors of horses and camels, and more than a hundred different kinds of dinosaurs...read more

Product Description: For 200 years before the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, findings in the sciences of the earth and of nature threatened religious belief based on the literal truth of the Bible. This book traces out the multiple conflicts and accommodations within religion and the new sciences through the writings of such heroes of the English Enlightenment as David Hume, Robert Hooke, John Ray, Erasmus Darwin (Charles’ grandfather), Thomas Burnet, and William Whiston...read more

Tells a tale of one man trying to track down the whale that ate his wife, child and right arm during a vicious and unprovoked attack.

Unaware of his pirate ancestry and his clan's long-standing rivalry with the Hood family, accountant Morgan Cooke is shanghaied by his estranged father and placed at the forefront of the families' latest clash in the Caribbean, which is marked by the promise of a vast treasure. A first novel. 20,000 first printing.

Galileo once wrote that 'the Bible tells us how to go to Heaven, but not how the heavens go.' From the Greeks to the present day, thoughtful people have struggled to reconcile the discoveries of science with religious belief and authority.