Annotation of The Memorial History of Boston by Justin Winsor
The Memorial History of Boston is a comprehensive, multi-volume historical work that presents a detailed account of the development of Boston from its earliest colonial origins to the...
Working in secrecy at the Anger Institute, Cap and his six fellow adventurers monitor the planet watching for the next madman bent on world conquest. This time, a crazed scientist unleashes the ultimate terror: billions of microscopic robots...
When was St. Sophia of Kyiv founded and who was its founder? It is written in textbooks that Yaroslav the Wise founded St. Sophia of Kyiv in 1037. But the scholars have refuted this, one would think, truism. It appears that Yaroslav only...
Brilliant, shattering, mind-jolting, The Mind’s I is a searching, probing nook—a cosmic journey of the mind—that goes deeply into the problem of self and self-consciousness as anything written in our time. From verbalizing chimpanzees to...
For Colm Tóibín and Carmen Callil there is no difference between literary and commercial writing — there is only the good novel: engrossing, inspirational, compelling. In their selection of the best 200 novels written since 1950, the editors...
In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Mongols carved out the largest land-based empire in world history, stretching from Korea to Russia in the north and from China to Syria in the south, and unleashing an unprecedented level of violence....