Browsing Books by Books Like Galileo's Daughter

John Adams (2008)
Chronicles the life of America's second president, including his youth, his career as a Massachusett...

Guns, Germs, and Steel (1999)
Dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors he feels ...

Season of the Machete (1995)
Forsaking his life of leisure, Peter Macdonald prepares for a confrontation on a vacation island wit...

Undaunted Courage (2002)
A chronicle of the two-and-a-half year journey of Lewis and Clark covers their incredible hardships ...

A Taste of Temptation (2005)
When confirmed bachelor Andrew Terwillger happens upon Olivia Banning, who claims to be looking for ...

The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2008)
Changez, a young Muslim American, is living the American dream, with a Princeton education and high-...

Eats, Shoots & Leaves (2003)
Looks at the history of punctuation and the rules governing the use of apostrophes, commas, dashes, ...

The Demon-haunted World (1997)
Reveals the dangers associated with widespread scientific ignorance, and explains how scientific tho...

The Da Vinci Code (2006)
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu work to solve the murder of ...

Freakonomics (2005)
The author offers his view of how the economy really works, examining issues from cheating and crime...

The World is Flat (2007)
A New Edition of the Phenomenal #1 Bestseller "One mark of a great book is that it makes you see thi...

Brave New World (2006)
Huxley's classic prophetic novel describes the socialized horrors of a futuristic utopia devoid of i...

A Painted House (2004)
Racial tension, a forbidden love affair, and murder are seen through the eyes of a seven-year-old bo...

Crime and Punishment (1987)
A psychological study of the guilt one man finds after he murders an old woman. Raskolnikov, the fir...

Basket Case (2003)
Once a hotshot investigative reporter, Jack Tagger now bangs out obituaries for a South Florida dail...

The Professor and the Madman (1999)
The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tal...