What are these graceful visitors to our skies? We now know that they bring both life and death and teach us about our origins. Comet begins with a breathtaking journey through space astride a comet. Pulitzer Prize-winning astronomer Carl Sagan, autho...

With vivid illustrations, wide-ranging coverage and detailed listening guides, this fascinating book explores the origin and development of jazz music from its seventeenth-century roots to the present day. Profiles of significant jazz musicians and c...

A riveting work of historical detection revealing that the origin of Wonder Woman, one of the world’s most iconic superheroes, hides within it a fascinating family story—and a crucial history of twentieth-century feminism Harvard historian and New Yo...

This is not a cookbook; it is a totally fresh and idiosyncratic look at pasta. The pasta family tree reveals unexpected relationships between pasta shapes, their usage and common DNA. Architect George L. Legendre has profiled 92 different kinds of pa...

The Elizabethans took from the Middle Ages a modified view of the universe which, Platonic and Biblical in origin, radically differed from our own. For them all creation was ranged in an unalterable order from the angels down to man - for whom the wo...

As a former vampire, Simon gets along with Downworlders. The Clave does not. One of ten adventures in Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy. As a former vampire, Simon’s always been sympathetic to Downworlders. But after a training exercise goes wrong,...