Overkill: How Modern Medicine Goes Too Far by Paul A. Offit, MD
Thanks to advances in Modern medicine it is possible to successfully treat and even eradicate many serious ailments. In part, because of these advances, we now live 30 years longer than we did 100 years ago. According to Paul A. Offit M.D., while we have learned much...
Classic Painting Atelier by Juliette Aristides
A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice Want to paint like Rembrandt-- and not like "modern artists" like Pollock? Read this beautifully illustrated and exquisitely written book. Explore this book.
Between Parent and Child by Haim Ginott
“No parent wakes up in the morning planning to make a child’s life miserable. No mother or father says, ‘Today I’ll yell, nag, and humiliate my child whenever possible.’ On the contrary, in the morning many parents resolve, ‘This is going to be a peaceful day. No...
Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future By Johan Norberg
"Johan Norberg offers an illuminating and heartening analysis of just how far we have come in tackling the greatest problems facing humanity. In the face of fear-mongering, darkness and division, the facts are unequivocal: the golden age is now." Explore this book...
The Innovators by Walter Isaacson
How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution The Innovators is the story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s,...
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orzcy
"Armed with only his wits and his cunning, one man recklessly defies the French revolutionaries and rescues scores of innocent men, women, and children from the deadly guillotine. His friends and foes know him only as the Scarlet Pimpernel. But the ruthless French...
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
An illuminating and entertaining "big picture" history of scientific discovery from the time of the ancient greeks to Einstein and the 20th century, from quarks to distant galaxies, covers topics from every scientific field from physics and chemistry to cosmology and...
The Mad Scientists’ Club
"Take seven, lively, "normal" boys -- one an inventive genius -- give them a clubhouse for cooking up ideas, an electronics lab above the town hardware store, and a good supply of Army surplus equipment, and you, dear reader, have a boyhood dream come true and a...
Ethnic America: A History
Thomas Sowell follows the history of nine American ethnic groups -- the Irish, Germans, Jews, Italians, Chinese, African-Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans, and their journey to become Americans. Explore this book.