Knowledge = Power

“A cracking read,  combining storytelling of the highest order with a trove of information.  . . . What’s remarkable is that it all fits together.”— Wall Street Journal “Successful  science writing tells a complete story of the ‘how’—the methodical  marvel building up to the ‘why’—and Randall does just that.”— New York Times Book Review “[Randall]  is a lucid explainer, st...

Who was Muhammad? What do we know historically, and does that differ from how he is seen by his followers and venerated today? Memories of Muhammad presents Muhammad as a lens through which to view both the genesis of  Islamic religion and the grand sweep of Islamic history—right  up to the hot button issues of the day, such as the spread of Islam,  holy wars, the status of...

From Brian Greene, one of the world’s leading physicists and author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe , comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way. Space  and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the  most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a  direction? Could...

The bestselling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos tackles perhaps the most mind-bending question in modern physics and cosmology: Is our universe the only universe? There  was a time when "universe" meant all there is. Everything. Yet, a  number of theories are converging on the possibility that our universe  may be but one among many parallel universes pop...

The international bestseller that inspired a major Nova special and sparked a new understanding of the universe, now with a new preface and epilogue. Brian Greene, one of the world's leading string theorists, peels away  layers of mystery to reveal a universe that consists of eleven  dimensions, where the fabric of space tears and repairs itself, and all  matter―from the smallest qu...

Best-selling author, superstar physicist, and cofounder of the World Science Festival Brian Greene ( The Elegant Universe , The Fabric of the Cosmos ) and an ensemble cast led by award-winning actor Paul Rudd ( Ant-Man )  perform this dramatic story tracing Albert Einstein's discovery of the  general theory of relativity. Featuring an original score by composer  Jeff Beal ( House of...

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World’s First Superpower The Rise of the British Empire 1497 To 1901

World’s First Superpower From Empire to Commonwealth 1901 to Present

World War I - the Great War and the World It Made

Winston Churchill Man of the Century

Way With Words - Writing, Rhetoric, and the Art of Persuasion

The Literature of C. S. Lewis

Rethinking our Past - Recognizing Facts Fictions and Lies in American History

Wars That Made the Western World - The Persian Wars, the Peloponnesian War, and the Punic Wars

Visions of Utopia - Philosophy and the Perfect Society

Waking Dragon - The Emerging Chinese Economy and Its Impact on the World

Upon This Rock - A History of the Papacy from Peter to John II

Unseen Diversity (The World of Bacteria)

Understanding The Holocaust

The Tiber and the Potomac - Rome, America, and Empires of Trust

Understanding Movies, The Art and History of Films

The Quest; The Historians' Search for Jesus and Muhammad

The Russian Revolution - From Tsarism to Bolshevism

The Medieval World II - Society, Economy, and Culture