Browsing Books by Books Like Guns, Germs, and Steel

Master Mind (2005)
FRITZ HABER -- a Nobel laureate in chemistry, a friend of Albert Einstein, a German Jew and World Wa...

Raiders of the Nile (2014)
A latest entry in the series chronicling the Finder's early years in first-century Rome finds Gordia...

Jane Austen's Sewing Box (2009)
Jane Austen's Sewing Box' opens a window into the lives of Regency women during a beautiful period i...

Twilight of the Elites (2012)
Analyzes scandals in high-profile institutions, from Wall Street and the Catholic Church to corporat...

Death of a Writer (2006)
For Robert Pendleton, a professor clinging to tenure and living in the shambles of his once-bright l...

Complete Stories, 1884-1891 (1999)
Seventeen stories include "The Aspern Papers," "The Pupil," "The Lesson of the Master," "Brooksmith,...

The Dovekeepers (2011)
A tale inspired by the tragic first-century massacre of hundreds of Jewish people on the Masada moun...

Death Comes to Pemberley (2011)
Pemberley is thrown into chaos after Elizabeth Bennett's disgraced sister Lydia arrives and announce...

Eric Carle's Very Little Library: The very hungry caterpillar (1st board book ed., 1994) (2003)
Collects three of Carle's singular picture books: The very hungry caterpillar eats its way to being ...

Special Topics in Calamity Physics (2007)
Having moved from one academic outpost to another throughout her childhood, Blue van Meer attends th...

Genome (2000)
Looks at one newly described gene from each of the twenty-three human chromosomes and explains how e...

The Fire Gospel (2010)
Sent to Iraq to find artifacts that survived the war, a linguistics scholar discovers the ancient sc...

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (2012)
After a layoff during the Great Recession sidelines his tech career, Clay Jannon takes a job at the ...

A Princess of Mars (2011)
Although Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) is justifiably famous as the creator of Tarzan of the Apes...

Super Freakonomics (2009)
In a follow-up to "Freakonomics," the authors offer a new analysis of how the economy really works....

Nickel and Dimed (2001)
The sharp social critic and author of Blood Rites looks underneath the illusion of American prosperi...