Understanding how we pinpoint the past is crucial to putting the present in perspective and planning for the future. Now, for the first time, journalist and geologist Chris Turney explains to the non
Crete, 1492.After a sojourn of more than a year on the Venetian-controlled island, Skiouros has learned the art of the sword, the languages of both his peers and his enemies, and everything he believe
The desert nomads have a saying: "When something is broken it should never be discarded. So long as the pieces remains, the whole can be remade."A time of trials, war and terror is coming to the deser
Every human body carries a secret cargo: a huge population of microorganisms living in the mouth, on the skin, in the gut. They help digest our food. They make essential vitamins. They break down toxi
For twenty years civil war has torn the Empire apart; the Imperial line extinguished as the mad Emperor Quintus burned in his palace, betrayed by his greatest general. Against a background of war, dec
Do the Gods control the destiny of men?Can the dead avenge themselves?Captain Varro of the Fourth Army is about to have the worst day of his life, but in the face of hopeless odds, Varro will find jus
Every human body carries a secret cargo: a huge population of micro-organisms that lives in your mouth and nose, on your skin, in your guts. This is the human microbiome, and it has recently become bi
"A former trader at the Galleon Group traces his high-adrenaline career through the trading underworld to reveal Wall Street's after-hours subculture of sex, drugs and cutthroat financial competitiven
