Book Review: The Fall of the Ottomans
/The Ottoman Empire joined the fighting of the First World War deeply misunderstood by both sides; a charismatic new book seeks to clarify the story of that odd meeting of East and West
Read MoreBook Review: The Next Species
/Species arrive, thrive, and then go extinct - but after the long and frightful reign of Homo sapiens ... what?
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/Leonard Nimoy
Read MoreBook Review: Killers of the King
/Under the direction of Oliver Cromwell, dozens of men deliberated to execute the captive King Charles I, and when Charles II came to power a decade later, those men were suddenly in the gravest danger. A fascinating new book tells their stories.
Read MoreBook Review: Shadow
/In the second volume of Will Elliott's fantastic "Pendulum" trilogy, a large and engaging cast of characters fight to survive in a world drastically out of balance
Read MoreBook Review: American Reckoning
/A harrowing new book looks at the many spaces the Vietnam Was has occupied in the American mental landscape
Read MoreBook Review: The Interstellar Age
/Nearly 40 years ago, the Voyager spacecraft left Earth bearing cameras to photograph the solar system - and messages of greetings to the wider galaxy. A terrific new book tells the story of a great human adventure
Read MoreBook Review: Cold War Modernists
/The clashes of the Cold War weren't just matters of missiles and border guards; they also enlisted honey-voiced broadcasters, drunken novelists, and bookish magazine editors, as a fascinating new book makes clear
Read MoreBook Review: The Summit - Bretton Woods, 1944
/In 1944 a contentious group of delegates gathered in New Hampshire in order to lay out a blueprint for the postwar world economy; a great new history tells the story of Bretton Woods
Read MoreBook Review: Machiavelli
/An engaging new book looks at that perennial fascination for biographers, Niccolo Machiavelli
Read MoreBook Review: The Strategist
/Two-time National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft kept a low profile (and a negligible paper trail) throughout a lifetime in Washington power-dealing; a compelling new book profiles the ultimate Oval Office insider
Read MoreBook Review: The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins
/In the vastness of the world's oceans, some mammals have evolved brains and language ... and culture? A fascinating new book looks at the inner lives of whales and dolphins
Read MoreBook Review: Sartre: A Philosophical Biography
/Sartre the man takes a distant back seat to Sartre the thinker in Thomas Flynn's new intellectual biography
Read MoreBook Review: Simply Good News
/The latest book from New Testament scholar N. T. Wright presents a passionate new appraisal of the "good news " of the Christian Gospels
Read MoreBook Review: Gods, Guns, Grits, and Gravy
/Former governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee offers a plea for understanding the 'flyover states' where, he claims, real people lead real lives
Read MoreBook Review: Thieves' Road
/Two years before he gained fame in the most painful way imaginable at the Battle of Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer led a large expedition into the Black Hills sacred to the Sioux - in search of gold
Read MoreBook Review: The Dogs Are Eating Them Now
/One of the most experienced reporters to cover the war in Afghanistan writes up his experiences
Read MoreBook Review: Phantom Terror
/In his new book, historian Adam Zamoyski paints a picture of a Europe convulsed with fear of upheavals like the French Revolution and the tyranny of Bonaparte - and willing to do anything to prevent them
Read MoreBook Review: One Nation, Under Gods
/From the Puritans and their city on a hill to the Mormons to modern-day charlatans, the story of the United States is the story of competing faiths; a lively new book looks at that complicated tapestry
Read MoreBook Review: The Age of Consequences
/An environmentalist writes an energetic and - despite everything - optimistic clarion call to better and smarter thinking about how mankind can ease its disastrous impact on nature
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