History, in the broadest sense of the word, is all that we know about everything that man has eve...

Nicolo Machiavelli was born at Florence on 3rd May 1469. He was the second son of Bernardo di Nic...

It was the misfortune of Germany in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that, with most of th...

The green of beetles' wings ... the red of polished carbuncle ... a web of silver fire. Lightning...

When The Planetara, a space cargo ship under the command of Gregg Haljan, docked at the moon to b...

'I've had a most amazing time....' So begins the Time Traveller's astonishing firsthand account o...

The object of this volume is to describe the principal customs and ideas that underlie all public...

Jack O' Judgment, that light-hearted, insouciant, masked mystery man, who sets out to expose a ga...

Almost every historian has set out by regretting how little is known of the early inhabitants of ...

Now we are about to begin, and you must attend; and when we get to the end of the story, you will...

The resurrection of the Assyrian world and the discovery of Sargon are synchronous. Prior to 1843...

They were four of the greatest minds in the Universe: Two men, two women, lost in an experimental...