Robert Kanigel takes us into the heady world of a remarkable group of scientists working at the National Institutes of Health and the Johns Hopkins University:

Explores the "genealogy of scientific relationships"--How scientists are connected as mentors and students. In particular, Kanigel profiles one "dynasty" of fou

Insightful memoir by former apprentice presents a revealing portrait of Wright the man, the inspired teacher, the architect.

Now in paperback, a romantic love story by the great Brazilian writer Lóri, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but un

On an Irish Island tells the remarkable story of a remote outpost nearly untouched by time in the first half of the twentieth century, and of the adventurous me