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With barbarians at the gate and enemies within, two men must fight for the soul of the Republic. In a cave hacked out of rock, two young boys appeal to the famed Roman oracle for a glimpse into their future. In the flickering torchlight, the Sybil draws the blood-red shape of an eagle with wings outstretched: an omen of death. As they flee the cave in fear, Aulus and Lucius make an oath of loyalty until death. An oath that will be tested in the years to come.

Shermer argues that science is the best lens through which to view the world, but he recognizes that it's often difficult for most of us to tell where valid science leaves off and borderland science begins. To help us, Shermer looks at a range of topics that put the boundary line in high relief. For instance, he discusses the many "theories of everything" that try to reduce the complexity of the world to a single principle, and shows how most fall into the category of pseudoscience. He

Veronica Davis's life is tumbling out of control. It's bad enough just to come home to Fossil, Washington, but even worse to have to do it because her sister, Crystal, is dead. On top of that, Crystal's longtime lover, Eddie, went into hiding when accused of the murder, and it was weeks after the tragedy before Veronica got the news that Lizzie, her sensitive six-year-old niece, needed her. Veronica's disastrous homecoming is complete when Coop, the hot hunk who's the new manager of the bar she

After two centuries, could this be twilight for the Enlightenment project and the beginning of a new age of unreason? Will faith and dogma trump rational inquiry, or will it be possible to reconcile religious and scientific worldviews? Can evolutionary biology, anthropology and neuroscience help us to better understand how we construct beliefs, and experience empathy, fear and awe? Can science help us create a new rational narrative as poetic and powerful as those that have traditionally sustain

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion - as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war - and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A

In Before the Dawn, Nicholas Wade, science writer for the New York Times, traces our ancestral population抯 unlikely prehistoric passage out of Africa through the Gate of Grief, eastward into Sunda and Sahul for some, northward into modern day Turkey and Iran for others. Mastery of language, pair mating, and a swiftly swelling intellect were among the crucial innovations that allowed humans to embark on this epic voyage, to overcome their aggressive hunter-gatherer past, and embrace a settled, co

The book follows Simon's difficult transition into vampirism, but equally shows us more about Jace and Clary's relationship. Simon receives an offer from a vampire named Camille Belcourt who claims to have been usurped by Raphael. She says that if Simon joins her side as the Daylighter, then he will finally earn his place in vampire society. After his meeting with Camille, he returns home worried about what his mother will think as she has been suspicious since he went to Idris (City of Glass) a

No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, which earned its author a death sentence. Furor aside, it is a marvelously erudite study of good and evil, a feast of language served up by a writer at the height of his powers, and a rollicking comic fable. The book begins with two Indians, Gibreel Farishta ("for fifteen years the biggest star in the history of the Indian movies") and Saladin Chamcha, a Bombay expatriate returning from his f

Now a Green Rider, one of the king's elite troop of messengers, Karigan returns to Sacor City giving up her merchant lifestyle. The story opens a year into this service as danger is threatening the kingdom of Sacoridia once again. The dark magic in Blackveil Forest is restless, and has found an outlet through the breach in the D'Yer Wall, which has protected Sacoridia from the forest for over 1000 years. This influx of magic has messed up a land that has largely learned to live without magic dur

The Portable Atheist, edited by Christopher Hitchens (author of God is Not Great), is a great compilation of ideas from nonbelievers and freethinkers. This one includes the essays by: Spinoza, Omer Khayyam, David Hume, Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, Sigmund Freud, H. P. Lovecraft, Albert Einstein, Salman Rushdie etc.

[RS] Three Essays by Bertrand Russell

Debra Fine - The Fine Art of Small Talk

Robin Cook - Death Benefit (Audio Book)

Seeking to uncover the holy grail of science, the elusive Theory of Everything that lies at the heart of the cosmos, Professor Stephen Hawking takes us to the cutting edge of theoretical physics. In a realm where truth is often stranger than fiction, he explains in layman's terms the principles that control our universe.

Professor Noam Chomsky in Class War reveals what does the government understand of democracy, telling us how big corporations have great power on political system. A frightening and eye-opening lecture by an intellectual.