Art: A New History
10 best books like Art: A New History (Paul Johnson): The Day of the Triffids, My Family and Other Animals, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, The British Museum Is Falling Down, Mrs. McGinty's Dead, The Bigger They Come, Press Enter, Have His Carcase, The Letter of Marque, Mazeway
| Author | John Wyndham |
| ISBN | 0812967127 |
In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffids to moderate acclaim. Fifty-two years later, this horrifying story is a science fiction classic, touted by The Times (London) as having “all the reality of a vividly realized nightmare.”
Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded...
My Family and Other Animals
| Author | Gerald Durrell |
| ISBN | 0142004413 |
When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any sensible family would do: sell their house and relocate to the sunny Greek isle of Corfu. My Family and Other Animals was intended to embrace the natural history of the island but ended up as a delightful...
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
The computer and the internet are among the most important innovations of our era, but few people know who created them. They were not conjured up in a garret or garage by solo inventors suitable to be singled out on magazine covers or put into a pantheon with Edison, Bell, and Morse. Instead, most of the...
The British Museum Is Falling Down
| Author | David Lodge |
| ISBN | 0140124195 |
Literature is mostly about having sex and not having children. Life is the other way around...And that, precisely, is the dilemma that preoccupies Adam Appleby as he begins another day of research in the Reading Room of the British Museum. Adam is a graduate student in literature and a practicing Catholic...
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 1572707313 |
Alas, Mrs. McGinty; we hardly knew you.
Really. I mean that. She was a widow, a woman who cleaned houses and took in lodgers to make ends meet; had a niece whom she saw at holidays, and was perhaps a bit of a nosy parker; nothing extraordinary to fill the obituary. When Inspector Spence visits...
| Author | A.A. Fair |
| ISBN | 0688031374 |
Erle Stanley Gardner is best known for his series of eighty-five novels featuring Los Angeles attorney, Perry Mason. But beginning with The Bigger They Come in 1939, he wrote a second series under the pen name A. A. Fair, featuring a mismatched pair of detectives named Donald Lam and Bertha Cool. The...
| Author | John Varley |
| ISBN | 1568652798 |
This award-winning Science Fiction novella is part murder mystery, part romance, and more than a little bit scary.
Victor Apfel, a troubled war vet, gets an odd, pre-recorded phone message, instructing him to go inside the house next door. He opens the door to find his neighbor shot through...
Mystery writer Harriet Vane, recovering from an unhappy love affair and its aftermath, seeks solace on a barren beach -- deserted but for the body of a bearded young man with his throat cut.
From the moment she photographs the corpse, which soon disappears with the tide, she is puzzled by a mystery...
| Author | Patrick O'Brian |
| ISBN | 0393309053 |
Captain Jack Aubrey, a brilliant and experienced officer, has been struck off the list of post-captains for a crime he did not commit. His old friend Stephen Maturin, usually cast as a ship's surgeon to mask his discreet activities on behalf of British Intelligence, has bought for Aubrey his former...
| Author | Jack Williamson |
| ISBN | 0517079321 |
From the depths of space the Seeker had come, to make the Solar system her nest. The invader was defeated, but not before Earth was ravatged, its technology destroyed and its inhabitants reduced to barbarism. Mankind's only chance for salvation lay with the alien Eldren -- but the Eldren considered...
Why Did Europe Conquer the World?
| Author | Philip T. Hoffman |
| ISBN | 0691139709 |
The startling economic and political answers behind Europe's historical dominance
Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe establish global dominance, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced?...
From Samarkhand to Sardis: A New Approach to the Seleucid Empire
| Author | Susan Sherwin-White |
| ISBN | 0520081838 |
The empire created by Alexander the Great's general, Seleucus, constituted the largest Hellenistic kingdom of the successor states: yet this is the first substantial treatment of Seleucid history to appear for fifty years. The authors approach this important and successful state from new perspectives,...
Einstein's Masterwork: 1915 and the General Theory of Relativity
| Author | John Gribbin |
| ISBN | 1681772124 |
In 1915, Albert Einstein presented his masterwork to the Prussian Academy of Sciences—a theory of gravity, matter, space and time: the General Theory of Relativity. Einstein himself said it was “the most valuable theory of my life,” and “of incomparable beauty.” It describes the evolution...
The Greek World 479-323 BC
| Author | Simon Hornblower |
| ISBN | 0415153441 |
The Greek World 479-323 BC has been an indispensable guide to classical Greek history since its first publication. Now Simon Hornblower has comprehensively rewritten and revised his original text, bringing it up to date for a new generation of readers. The extensive changes made include the addition...
| Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| ISBN | 0872203549 |
Twilight of the Idols presents a vivid, compressed overview of many of Nietzsche’s mature ideas, including his attack on Plato’s Socrates and on the Platonic legacy in Western philosophy and culture. Polt provides a trustworthy rendering of Nietzsche’s text in contemporary American English,...
Dosti čtivá a zároveň objemná alternativní historie mnichovské krize - asi nejlepší spekulace na téma "co kdybychom se tenkrát bránili", jakou jsem zatím četl. Místy mi sice přišlo, že v některých částech československé armádě vychází skoro všechno a německé...
The 1988 Annual World's Best SF
| Author | Donald A. Wollheim |
| ISBN | 0886772818 |
Here is the newest volume ina 23-year-long tradition of top story-telling. THE 1988 ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF. With this newest edition, Donald A. Wollheim, the man who has consistently discovered the finest new talents in the field, once again brings you the very best of the best by both today's and tomorrow's...
| Author | C.W.E. Peckett |
| ISBN | 0862921392 |
This is one of the classic course books for those beginning ancient Greek. Designed to give students a working knowledge of the Greek languages in order to examine the ancient texts with confidence and enjoyment, the text includes some of the more familiar of the myths, some of the exciting parts of the...
