The Me 262 was the first of its kind, the first jet-powered aircraft. Although conceived before the war, with the initial plans being drawn in April 1939, the Stormbird was beset with technological (particularly the revolutionary engines) and...
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From the best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa comes a truly wonderful celebration of the English language and of its unrivaled treasure house, the Oxford English Dictionary....
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The Medieval Vagina: A Hysterical and Historical Perspective of All Things Vaginal During the Middle Ages
In the Middle Ages much like today, the vagina conjured fear and repulsion, yet it held an undeniable allure. In The Medieval Vagina, the authors explore this paradox while unearthing medieval myths, attitudes and contradictions surrounding this...
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...
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...
The Mountains of Sunset, the Mountains of...
The Naked Communist was a best seller in the early 1960s, selling more than 1.5 million copies. It found its way into the libraries of the CIA, the FBI, the White House, and homes all across America and overseas in Spanish and excerpted in other...
The editors of the nation’s two leading journals on foreign policy were asked to examine the nature of the post-cold war world and America’s transitional role. These essays represent the views of Charles William Maynes, editor of Foreign Policy,...
After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has ever been in the past 25 years. Putin’s motives, his reasons for seeking confrontation with the West, remain for many a mystery. Not for...