In this classic of science history, Shapin takes into account the culture - the variety of beliefs, practices, and influences - that in the 1600s shaped the origins of the modern scientific worldview.
Harper Lees Pulitizer Prize-winning classic, voted żeby librarians across America as the best novel of the 20th-Century, To Kill a Mockingbird is repackaged as a Harper Perennial Deluxe Classic
The Mahabharata, an ancient and vast Sanskrit poem, is a remarkable collection of epics, legends, romances, theology, and ethical and metaphysical doctrine. The core of this great work is the epic...
Ein magischer Sommer in Norwegen In der malerischen Altstadt von Trondheim, wo bunte Holzhäuser sich an enge Kopfsteinpflastergassen schmiegen und sich die frische Fjordluft mit den Aromen aus...
The Mahabharata, an ancient and vast Sanskrit poem, is a remarkable collection of epics, legends, romances, theology, and ethical and metaphysical doctrine. The core of this great work is the epic...
"The Mahabharata," an ancient and vast Sanskrit poem, is a remarkable collection of epics, legends, romances, theology, and ethical and metaphysical doctrine. The core of this great work is...
We live in an age in which we are repeatedly reminded--by scientists, by the media, by popular culture--of the looming threat of mass extinction. We're told that human activity is currently...
"The best book I read this decade." -Sharon Van Etten in Rolling Stone"Boy Swallows Universe hypnotizes you with wonder, and then hammers you with heartbreak.... Eli's remarkably...
Cher Iegor, Ton rendez-vous à Europe 1 tombe trop opportunément pour que tu n'y croises Leonor. Deux indications: elle est grande de taille et métissée, ce qui se remarque assez vite dans les...
Gabriel Allon, art restorer and occasional spy, searches for a stolen masterpiece żeby Caravaggio in #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva's latest action-packed tale of high stakes...
An impressive and important cross-cultural study that has vast implications for history, religion, anthropology, folklore, and other fields.... Remarkably wide-ranging and extremely...
The sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel The Thousandth FloorNew York, 2118. Manhattan is home to a thousand-story supertower, a breathtaking marv
"Solitude... Je ne crois pas comme ils croient, je ne vis pas comme ils vivent, je n'aime pas comme ils aiment... Je mourrai comme ils meurent", écrivait Marguerite Yourcenar à trente...
A sex therapist and neuroscientist describes anhedonia, the inability to feel a satisfactory amount of pleasure--and provides the pathway back to fully enjoying sex, food, time with family and...
Taking place a few months before the smash-hit reimagining of the videogame series, "DmC: Devil May Cry: The Vergil chronicles" unveils all-new aspects of Dante's reimagined world! The...
"On sait rarement pourquoi une image, une situation, parfois une simple phrase vous traversent l'esprit, occupent impérieusement la place et restent là, plantées en travers de ce qu'on...
Angelo, le héros du Hussard sur le toit, part de Turin après avoir fort joliment tué d'un coup de sabre M. Le baron Schwartz, espion autrichien. Il passe la frontière en grand uniforme de...
The richest book yet in the phenomenal PostSecret series: Frank Warren showcases the project s most profound and stunning postcards, revealing secrets that have haunted their creators for a lifetime.
SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD SAYERS WAYTE HAS EVERYTHING.Popularity, good looks, perfect grades—there's nothing Sayers' family money can't buy.Until he's kidnapped żeby a man who tells him the...
For all the love and attention we give dogs, much of what they do remains mysterious. Just think about different behaviors you see at a dog park: We have a good understanding of what it means when...
When the ancient Greeks looked up into the heavens, they saw not just sun and moon, stars and planets, but a complete, coherent universe, a model of the Good that could serve as a guide to a better...
Archaeology in Israel is truly a national obsession, a practice through which national identity--and national rights--have long been asserted. But how and why did archaeology emerge as such a...
This is a behind-the-scenes look at the search for human origins, analyzing how the biases and preconceptions of paleoanthropologists shape their work. The stories of the Taung Child and...