One of the world’s most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.

In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail—well, most of it. In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife...

A loving and hilarious—if occasionally spiky—valentine to Bill Bryson’s adopted country, Great Britain. Prepare for total joy and multiple episodes of unseemly laughter.
Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes from a Small Island, a true classic and one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Now he has traveled...

Past and Present is a book by Thomas Carlyle.[1] It was published in April 1843 in England and the following month in the United States. It combines medieval history with criticism of 19th-century British society. Carlyle wrote it in seven weeks as a respite from the harassing labor of writing Cromwell. He was, inspired by the recently published Chronicles of the Abbey of Saint Edmund's Bury, which had been written by Jocelin of Brakelond at the close...

La fascinante historia de siete ilustres monarcas femeninas protagonistas de reinados admirables y periodos de prosperidad y gloria para sus pueblos. Al indagar en el devenir de las principales monarquías pronto se hizo patente que las personalidades seductoras y llamativas y los reinados más admirables, eficientes y «útiles», si es que pude usarse ese adjetivo refiriéndose a reinados, fueron los de algunas reinas. Ha habido muchas menos reinas...

When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential, he expanded the appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet that lays out his twenty-five years of sex, drugs, and haute cuisine.
From his first oyster in Gironda to the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Center, from the restaurants...

When Jerome K Jerome and his friend decide to attend the Oberammergau Passion Play, an Easter pageant that is performed in Oberlin, Germany once every decade, they turn the trip into a vacation. From London to Germany, the pair plan a cross-continent trip, excited to sight-see and experience different cultures. However, the friends run into conflict before they even take off, unsure what to pack. While they sort through contradicting advice from others,...

A Modern Utopia is a novel by H. G. Wells. Because of the complexity and sophistication of its narrative structure A Modern Utopia has been called "not so much a modern as a postmodern utopia." The novel is best known for its notion that a voluntary order of nobility known as the Samurai could effectively rule a "kinetic and not static" world state so as to solve "the problem of combining progress with political stability." To this planet "out beyond...

La Breve historia de las ciudades del mundo clásico presenta los cambios y las transformaciones que experimentaron ciudades como Alejandría, Atenas, Roma, Pérgamo, Antioquía, Petra, Seleucia… desde su surgimiento en el primer milenio a. C. hasta su conversión en verdaderas metrópolis del mundo clásico.

La apasionante historia de uno de los grandes líderes de la Europa del Siglo XX. Un gran hombre de estado que combatió y venció en dos guerras mundiales, derrotó a Hitler y se enfrentó a Stalin. Una vida de novela que arranca en la época victoriana y termina en la de los Beatles.

Descubra los movimientos, obras y autores fundamentales del patrimonio literario de la humanidad. Aprenda a distinguir épocas y estilos, conozca la esencia de los textos más representativos de manera entretenida y rigurosa, aprenda a disfrutar y comprender mejor las obras que interpretan el mundo que nos rodea. Una completa panorámica del tesoro cultural de las letras universales. ¿Qué tiene que ver el vino con el nacimiento del teatro? ¿Qué...