Ecco: 398 books
India After Gandhi Revised and Updated Edition
The History of the World's Largest Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
From one of the subcontinent’s most important and controversial writers comes this definitive history of post-Partition India, now revised and updated with extensive new material
Told in lucid and beautiful prose, the story of India’s wild ride toward and since Independence is a riveting...
Pagans
The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
A provocative and contrarian religious history that charts the rise of Christianity from the point of view of traditional” religion from the religious scholar and critically acclaimed author of Augustine.
Pagans explores the rise of Christianity from a surprising and unique viewpoint: that...
Mossad
The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
For decades, Israel's renowned security arm, the Mossad, has been widely recognized as the best intelligence service in the world. In Mossad, authors Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal take us behind the closed curtain with riveting, eye-opening, boots-on-the-ground accounts of the most dangerous,...
The Village
400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Cultural commentator John Strausbaugh's The Village is the first complete history of Greenwich Village, the prodigiously influential and infamous New York City neighborhood.
From the Dutch settlers and Washington Square patricians, to the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and Prohibition-era speakeasies;...
The Riddle of the Labyrinth
The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative.
When famed archaeologist...
Big Questions from Little People
And Simple Answers from Great Minds
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
In the spirit of Schott’s Miscellany, The Magic of Reality, and The Dangerous Book for Boys comes Can a Bee Sting a Bee?—a smart, illuminating, essential, and utterly delightful handbook for perplexed parents and their curious children. Author Gemma Elwin Harris has lovingly compiled weighty questions...
The Weather Machine
A Journey Inside the Forecast
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
From the acclaimed author of Tubes, a lively and surprising tour of the infrastructure behind the weather forecast, the people who built it, and what it reveals about our climate and our planet
The weather is the foundation of our daily lives. It’s a staple of small talk, the app on our smartphones,...
by Eleanor Clark
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Winner of the National Book Award
“[Clark’s] fantastic blending of science and art, history and journalism, brings the appetite back for life and literature both.” — Los Angeles Times Book Review
On the northwest coast of France, just around the corner from the English Channel,...
Knocking on Heaven's Door
How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
“Science has a battle for hearts and minds on its hands….How good it feels to have Lisa Randall’s unusual blend of top flight science, clarity, and charm on our side.”
—Richard Dawkins
“Dazzling ideas….Read this book today to understand the science of tomorrow.”
—Steven Pinker
The...
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs
The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
In this brilliant exploration of our cosmic environment, the renowned particle physicist and New York Times bestselling author of Warped Passages and Knocking on Heaven’s Door uses her research into dark matter to illuminate the startling connections between the furthest reaches of space and life...
by Lisa Randall
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
On July 4, 2012, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva madehistory when they discovered an entirely new type of subatomic particle that many scientists believe is the Higgs boson. For forty years, physicists searched for this capstone to the Standard Model of particle physics—the theory...
Brief Candle in the Dark
My Life in Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
In this hugely entertaining sequel to the New York Times bestselling memoir An Appetite for Wonder, Richard Dawkins delves deeply into his intellectual life spent kick-starting new conversations about science, culture, and religion and writing yet another of the most audacious and widely read books...
The Body Builders
Inside the Science of the Engineered Human
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Fareed Zakaria GPS Book of the Week
Weaving together vivid storytelling and groundbreaking science, The Body Builders explores the current revolution in human augmentation, which is helping us to triumph over the limitations and constraints we have long accepted as an inevitable part of being...
Einstein's Shadow
The Inside Story of Astronomers' Decades-Long Quest to Take the First Picture of a Black Hole
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE
Einstein’s Shadow follows a team of elite scientists on their historic mission to take the first picture of a black hole, putting Einstein’s theory of relativity to its ultimate test and helping to answer our deepest questions about space, time, the origins...