This book tells the story of the life and achievements of Sir John Forbes - Royal Physician, Medical Journalist and first translator of Laennec, the remarkable French inventor of the stethoscope.więcej »
Venice, 1522. Intelligence arrives from the east confirming Europe's greatest fear: the vastly rich Ottoman Sultan has all he needs to wage total war - and his sights are set on Rome. With Christen...więcej »
These live sciences, like the present one, are works of transition from development to evolution. When a human being evolves he has to cope somehow with the fact that 'everything changes', even the...więcej »
Esoteric elements of knowledge, or esoterica, are derived from a direct impersonation of the divine afflatus. What we can make out in terms of such knowledge would fit on the head of a pin, however...więcej »
"From unity through duality to the oneness of two: this is the shape of the element."
"Elementary substance goes into production with the advent of love."
What is eventually worked out then ...więcej »
On a remote Greek Island, Nicholas Urfe finds himself embroiled in the deceptions of a master trickster. As reality and illusion intertwine, Urfe is caught up in the darkest of psychological games....więcej »
A terrifying ghost story by the bestselling author of The Woman in Black.A mysterious depiction of masked revellers at the Venice carnival hangs in the college rooms of Oliver's old pro...więcej »
In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, and the third was a commoner, who four years earlier had been the subject of on...więcej »
'You must love the land, my children, and ring it in with your love'On the island of Wayo Wayo, every second son must leave on the day he turns fifteen as a sacrifice to the Sea God. At...więcej »
Good dad or good assassin? Can he be both?From the internationally bestselling author of BULLET TRAIN: A seemingly ordinary family man tries to juggle his home life with his job as a hi...więcej »
THE ORIGINAL AND BEST TRANSLATION BY MICHAEL GLENNY 50th Anniversary Edition. Afterwards, when it was frankly too late, descriptions were issued of the man: expensive grey suit, grey beret, one gre...więcej »
Read this eccentric epic from the author of cult classic Death and the PenguinSemyon is disturbed. He has woken up in the living room with blood on his shirt, an angry wife and no idea ...więcej »
The Mind is a complex tool we all know this as the mind have and has its own language; knowledge base. The mind is not just how we perceive things. It's how we communicate beyond the Realms of Life...więcej »
In November of 1914 pre-dreadnought and dreadnought capital ships faced off for the first time. The battle took place at the northern end of the Black Sea near Cape Sarych, the southern-most point ...więcej »
Discover Tom Crewe's magnificent debut novel about forbidden desire and the search for freedom in Victorian England...'Beautifully written' Graham Norton'Subtle, sexy and beautifu...więcej »
The circus arrives without warning. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Against the grey sky the towering tents are striped black and white. A sign hanging upon iron gates reads:więcej »
Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.First love has lifelong consequences, but P...więcej »
The Squashed edition of The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. Abridged from the original text to read in an hour or so.
Squashed editions are precise abridgements - the original ideas, in th...więcej »
'This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived' This is the story of a group of strangers, each summoned in different ways by the natural...więcej »