The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades
10 best books like The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades (Jonathan Riley-Smith): The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements, 2010: Odyssey Two, 2061: Odyssey Three, Indeh: A Story of the Apache Wars, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, Low, Vol. 1: The Delirium of Hope, The Songs of Distant Earth, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, Joker, Neutron Star
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
| Author | Sam Kean |
| ISBN | 0316051640 |
Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush in history?
The periodic table is one of our crowning scientific...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0345413970 |
Nine years after the disastrous Discovery mission to Jupiter in 2001, a joint U.S.-Soviet expedition sets out to rendezvous with the derelict spacecraft--to search the memory banks of the mutinous computer HAL 9000 for clues to what went wrong...and what became of Commander Dave Bowman.
Without...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0586203192 |
Arthur C. Clarke, creator of one of the world's best-loved science fiction tales, revisits the most famous future ever imagined in this NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, as two expeditions into space become inextricably tangled. Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious monloiths,...
Indeh: A Story of the Apache Wars
| Author | Ethan Hawke |
| ISBN | 1401310990 |
The year is 1872. The place, the Apache nations, a region torn apart by decades of war. Goyahkla, a young brave, has lost his family and everything he loves. After having a vision, he approaches the Apache leader Cochise to lead an attack against the Mexican village of Azripe. It is this wild display of...
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
| Author | David McCullough |
| ISBN | 1501168681 |
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.
As...
Low, Vol. 1: The Delirium of Hope
| Author | Rick Remender |
| ISBN | 1632151944 |
Millennia ago, mankind fled the earth's surface into the bottomless depths of the darkest oceans. Shielded from a merciless sun's scorching radiation, the human race tried to stave off certain extinction by sending robotic probes far into the galaxy to search for a new home among the stars. Generations...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0007115865 |
Just a few islands in a planetwide ocean, Thalassa was a veritable paradise—home to one of the small colonies founded centuries before by robot Mother Ships when the Sun had gone nova and mankind had fled Earth.
Mesmerized by the beauty of Thalassa and overwhelmed by its vast resources, the...
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
| Author | Ronald Takaki |
| ISBN | 0316831115 |
"A Different Mirror" is a dramatic new retelling of our nation's history, a powerful larger narrative of the many different peoples who together compose the United States of America. In a lively account filled with the stories and voices of people previously left out of the historical canon, Ronald...
| Author | Brian Azzarello |
| ISBN | 1401215815 |
An original hardcover graphic novel that tells the story of one very dark night in Gotham City--from the creative team behind the graphic novel LEX LUTHOR: MAN OF STEEL.
The Joker has been mysteriously released from Arkham Asylum, and he's none to happy about what's happened to his Gotham City...
| Author | Larry Niven |
| ISBN | 0345336941 |
Come to Larry Niven's Universe and meet all the natives: Thrints, Bandersnatchi, Puppeteers -- and a host of other wonderfully created characters.
Visit Lookitthat, Down, and Jinx -- indeed, an entire galaxy of planets found only in these stories that trace man's expansion and colonization...
| Author | Chelsea Cain |
| ISBN | 1534311432 |
After the brilliant but short-lived run on Marvel's Mockingbird I was ready to read anything else by Chelsea Cain, so I was really happy when Man-Eaters by her and Kate Niemczyk was announced. This is a comic with an absolutely bonkers premise — what if a mutated version of Toxoplasmosis caused certain...
| Author | Geoff Johns |
| ISBN | 1401209599 |
The 7-issue miniseries event that rocked the entire DC Universe in 2005-2006—a sequel to the epic CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS—is now collected in an amazing hardcover collection! Written by Geoff Johns (GREEN LANTERN, TEEN TITANS) with art by a who's who of comics' greatest talents—including...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 1416504540 |
Imperial Earth is the fascinating odyssey of Duncan Makenzie, traveling from Titan, a moon of Saturn, to Earth, as a diplomatic guest of the United States for the celebration of its Quincentennial in the year 2276. Titan, an independent republic, was originally colonized from Earth three generations...
| Author | Eileen Power |
| ISBN | 0521595568 |
This would have been Eileen Power’s magnum opus had she lived to complete it. Sadly she died of heart failure at only 51 in 1940. She had been working on a book about medieval women for many years; on the way writing about the wool trade, nunneries and medieval people. Here we have her notes and part finished...
| Author | Chelsea Cain |
| ISBN | 1534313095 |
Twelve-year-old, Maude, has a case of puberty-induced pantherism, a missing friend, a detective dad who thinks she may be a killer, a mom with a big secret, a unicorn hiding in her bedroom, and a plan to overthrow the patriarchy.
From the creative team that brought you the groundbreaking and...
