Robert Harris: 110 books

How to Critique Journal Articles in the Social Sciences, by Scott R. Harris, is a brief, introductory book that provides readers with a step-by-step guide to reading and understanding a social science research article. The author demonstrates the many strengths of social research, including its advantages...

El aclamado autor de Pompeya y maestro de la innovación en la ficción histórica cautiva con su «Trilogía de Cicerón», que arranca con Imperium y que está ambientada en la Roma antigua, una época de traiciones e intrigas políticas, tan alejada de la nuestra y, sin embargo, tan cercana. Un...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER  A whistle-blower.  A witch hunt. A cover-up. Secret tribunals, out-of-control intelligence agencies, and government corruption. Welcome to 1890s Paris.  ** Alfred Dreyfus has been convicted of treason, sentenced to life imprisonment on a far-off island, and publicly...

The best-selling author of Enigma and Fatherland turns to today's Vatican in a ripped-from-the-headlines novel, and gives us his most ambitious, page-turning thriller yet--where the power of God is nearly equaled by the ambition of men. The pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine...

Jake Bravado, a nerdophobic writer, finds out that nerds − the once-ubiquitous canker sore on the lip of humanity − are noticeably scarce. Where are they? What are they planning? Jake takes it upon himself to discover the truth, thus beginning a dangerous journey into the world of pocket protectors,...

September 1938. Hugh Legat maakt carrière bij de Britse diplomatieke dienst; hij werkt op 10 Downing Street als privésecretaris voor premier Neville Chamberlain. In een laatste poging om de wereldvrede te redden, vliegen de Britten naar München om daar tijdens een cruciale conferentie te onderhandelen...

They wake you up Saturday morning, waste your time, and interrupt meals and precious couch time. They're phone solicitors-the only group more despised than lawyers. Now here's your chance to strike back-hustle the hustlers, annoy the annoying-and have a blast with these fifty foolproof ways to get even. Drive 'em nuts with

De paus is dood. De deuren van de Sixtijnse Kapel sluiten en volgens de eeuwenoude traditie zullen honderdzeventien kardinalen hun stem moeten uitbrengen in de geheimzinnigste verkiezing ter wereld. De kardinalen zijn allen zeer vrome mannen. Maar ze zijn ook ambitieus en elkaars rivalen. In de volgende...

No city in England can match Gloucester’s passion for the game of rugby. The streets are festooned in cherry and white on match days and that famous cry of ‘Glaw . . . sterrr’ can be heard far beyond the club’s Kingsholm ground. This book illustrates what makes Gloucester Rugby Club so special....

1964: ¿se acerca el fin del Tercer Reich? En el año 1964, un Tercer Reich victorioso se dispone a celebrar el 75 aniversario de Adolf Hitler. En ese momento, aparece flotando en un lago de Berlín el cadáver desnudo de un anciano. Se trata de un alto cargo del Partido, el siguiente de una...

Año 79 d.C. Faltan 48 horas para la catástrofe. Un relato histórico y de intriga ambientado durante la trágica erupción del Vesubio. Una sofocante semana a finales de agosto del año 79 d.C. ¿Qué mejor lugar para pasar los últimos días del verano que la bahía de Nápoles? A...

A Higher Form of Killing opens with the first devastating battlefield use of lethal gas in World War I, and then investigates the stockpiling of biological weapons during World War II and in the decades afterward as well as the inhuman experiments con-ducted to test their effectiveness. This updated...

This is the book the authors wish they had a decade ago as they started out to raise healthy and resilient adopted children – and stay sane in the process. You’ve completed the paperwork, waited and waited and then waited some more. Then, your adopted child is yours to parent. And you plan...

Na het uiteenvallen van de Sovjet-Unie reist historicus Fluke Kelso van Oxford naar Moskou voor een conferentie. Op een avond wordt hij in zijn hotelkamer bezocht door een oud-bewaker van Lavrenti Beria, voormalig hoofd van de Russische geheime politie. De oude man beweert dat hij aanwezig was toen...