Pegasus: 922 books
The Norman Conquest
The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
This riveting and authoritative USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller is “a much-needed, modern account of the Normans in England” (The Times, London).
The Norman Conquest was the most significant military—and cultural—episode in English history. An invasion on a scale not seen...
by Michael McGirr
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
A profound exploration of the precious resource of sleep—and of the causes and consequences of getting too little of it.
Michael McGirr always had trouble sleeping. The arrival of baby twins, however, made him realize that he’d never before known true exhaustion. And while he celebrated...
The Vikings
A New History
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Archaeologist Neil Oliver ventures beyond the myths about seafaring Norsemen to reveal the true lives of their chieftains, warlords, and explorers.
The Vikings are infamous for taking no prisoners, relishing cruel retribution, and priding themselves on their bloodthirsty skills as warriors....
Mathematics Minus Fear
How to Make Math Fun and Beneficial to Your Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Forget your classroom nightmares and discover how numbers can enhance and illuminate your world!
How can math help you bet on horses or win in Vegas? What’s the foolproof way to solve Sudoku? How can probability teach you to calculate your chances of survival in Russian roulette?
In...
by Steve Jones
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
The surprising and sometimes shocking history of the scientific innovations in Paris during the French Revolution, by the author of Darwin’s Ghost.
Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today's physics, chemistry...
Seven Elements That Changed the World
An Adventure of Ingenuity and Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
From iron to uranium, titanium to silicon, this is “a wide-ranging look at scientific progress. It’s also a lot of fun” (The Wall Street Journal).
Iron. Carbon. Gold. Silver. Uranium. Titanium. Silicon. These elements of the periodic table have shaped our lives and our world, in ways...
The Girl with No Name
The Incredible Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
The unbelievable true story of a young girl who is abandoned in the Colombian jungle and finds asylum in the most unlikely of places—with a troop of capuchin monkeys
In 1954, in a remote mountain village in South America, a little girl was abducted. She was four years old. Marina Chapman...
Earthquake Storms
An Unauthorized Biography of the San Andreas Fault
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
A geologist explores the fault line that threatens disaster for millions in this “must-read for earthquake buffs—and West Coast residents” (Library Journal).
It’s a geological structure that spans almost the entire length of California. Dozens of major highways and interstates cross...
Farewell to Reality
How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
From acclaimed science author Jim Baggot, a lively, provocative, and “intellectually gratifying” critique of modern theoretical physics (The Economist).
Where does one draw the line between solid science and fairy-tale physics? Jim Baggott argues that there is no observational or experimental...
by Patrick Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
“Even in death one could still tell the families – all holding hands”. For a modern generation unaware, immune or indifferent to the horrors of the Holocaust, these simple words throw into sharp relief the very real and very personal tragedy perpetrated by the Nazi regime. Mass murder was systemically...
The Last Great Ape
A Journey Through Africa and a Fight for the Heart of the Continent
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
The true story of an adventurer-turned-warrior fighting poachers and traffickers to protect animals from extinction.
Staging heart-pounding, espionage-style raids, Ofir Drori and his organization, The Last Great Ape (LAGA), have put countless poachers and traffickers of endangered species behind...
Paris to the Pyrenees
A Skeptic Pilgrim Walks the Way of Saint James
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Part adventure story, part cultural history, this “enjoyably offbeat travelogue” explores the phenomenon of the spiritual pilgrimage (Booklist).
Driven by curiosity, wanderlust, and health crises, David Downie and his wife set out from Paris to walk across France to the Pyrenees....
90-Day Geisha
My Time as a Tokyo Hostess
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
An introspective journey into the glamorous world—and Dionysian temptations—of Japanese nightlife
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The hard-drinking, drug-taking, all-night culture that dominates Tokyo’s Roppongi district can be a surreal place. Intrigued by rumors of this strange subculture and armed with...
by Brandy Schillace
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Airships and electric submarines, automatons and mesmerists?welcome to the wild world of steampunk. It is all speculative?or is it? Meet the intrepid souls who pushed Victorian technology to its limits and paved the way for our present age.
The gear turns, the whistle blows, and the billows...