When, in 1997, the International Atomic Energy Agency unanimously elected Mohamed ElBaradei as its next Director General, few observers could have forecast the dramatic role he would play over the next 12 years. Certainly, the stage onto which...
Churchill’s Bomb reveals a new aspect of the great Prime Minister’s life, so far completely neglected by historians: his relations with his nuclear scientists, and his management of Britain’s policy on atomic weapons.
Graham Farmelo,...
The companion to the Showtime documentary series, director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick challenge the prevailing orthodoxies of traditional history books in this thoroughly researched and rigorously analyzed look at the dark side of...
Eva Mozes Kor was just ten years old when she arrived in Auschwitz. While her parents and two older sisters were taken to the gas chambers, she and her twin, Miriam, were herded into the care of the man known as the Angel of Death, Dr. Josef...
This is a dark age, a bloody age, an age of daemons and of sorcery. It is an age of battle and death and of the world’s ending. Amidst all of the fire, flame and fury it is a time, too, of mighty heroes, of bold deeds and great courage.
At...
Stephen Baxter is one of preeminent science fiction writers of the current age. This collection showcases his work at its best.
Last and First Contacts features ten exceptional stories personally selected by the author, none of which...
Shy took the summer job to make some money. In a few months on a luxury cruise liner, he’ll rake in the tips and be able to help his mom and sister out with the bills. And how bad can it be? Bikinis, free food, maybe even a girl or...
Six months after an Influenza Pandemic swept across the globe, the world is starting to emerge from quarantine. But Pestilence Free Day is short-lived. For an unseen enemy has just been unleashed.
Five people. Seven days.
A...
Seven days after a world-wide anthrax attack:
Governments have fallen.
Water and food are scarce.
And ten thousand tons of spent nuclear fuel rods are ready to spew radiation around the globe.
Survivors...
The Brushfire Plague made the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918 look like a case of the common cold.
When a virulent plague erupts across the globe, Cooper Adams faces a daily battle for survival as society unravels at a dizzying pace. As he...