Physicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J. Robert Oppenheimer – director of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb – was…

A narrative of the making of a CIA officer, a history of twentieth-century conflict in the Middle East, and an hour-by-hour account of the 1983 Beirut Embassy bombing.

Birds have long been a source of inspiration for poets, from the Elizabethan era through the twentieth century. This volume includes poems by Emily Dickinson, John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe…

More than 300 species of seabirds range across the world’s oceans. In excess of 14 million birds, representing nearly two dozen species, make their home in the Hawaiian islands. This…

Birds have been idolized, worshipped, hunted, and protected throughout time. They fascinate us. We want for their feathers, wish we could fly and joy fills our hearts with their song…