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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was written by the celebrated English historian Edward Gibbon.

Volume 2: The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was written by the celebrated English historian Edward

In The Vision Revolution, Mark Changizi, prominent neuroscientist and vision expert, addresses four areas of human vision and provides explanations for why we have those particular abilities, compl

As news of war and terror dominates the headlines, scientist Malcolm Potts and veteran journalist Thomas Hayden take a step back to explain it all.

The scientific consensus is that our ability to understand human speech has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. After all, there are whole portions of the brain devoted to human speech.

In Ray Kurzweil's New York Times bestseller The Singularity is Near, the futurist and entrepreneur describes the Singularity, a likely future utterly different than anything we can imagine.

Human curiosity has led us to explore our solar system, landing on the moon and sending spacecraft to study distant planetary objects.

This book tells the story of crime fiction published during the first half of the twentieth century.

The incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark danger The Curies' newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of be

The pigpen cipher, the Devil's Coffee Mill, and germ warfare were all a part of the Civil War, but you won't learn that in your history books!

Flame throwers, spy trees, bird bombs, and Hell Fighters were all a part of World War I, but you won't learn that in your history books!

In 1965, Col. Thomas "Jerry" Curtis's helicopter was shot down over North Vietnam.

Get out! Run! We must leave this place! They are going to destroy this whole place! Go, children, run first!

In the decades after 1944 the four nations of Britain shared a common educational programme.

In The Patient Revolution, author Krisa Tailor-a noted expert in health care innovation and management-explores, through the lens of design thinking, how information technology will take health car