Global Exploration

Ancient Mysteries, Deadly Secrets: Can Nicholas Foxe Crack the Code in Time? Nicholas Foxe is a brilliant yet restless cryptographer. He begins to question whether his thirst for adventure will ever be satisfied. Just when he resigns himself to a routine life, he’s drawn into an astonishing discovery deep within a hidden cavern. It is a futuristic artifact buried for millennia, its purpose shrouded in mystery. What secrets does it hold, and who else will stop at nothing to claim it? As Nicholas is thrust into a globe-spanning quest to decode the artifact. He discovers its implications ...

Embark on a thrilling adventure with Jules Verne’s "Around the World in Eighty Days: Adapted for Modern Readers." This refreshed edition breathes new life into the classic tale with clean formatting and contemporary typography, making it more accessible for today's audience. The adapted language ensures clarity while preserving Verne’s original tone, allowing modern readers to dive seamlessly into the whirlwind journey that has captivated imaginations for generations. Set against the backdrop of the 19th century, this timeless narrative follows Phileas Fogg in a daring race against the ...

"Listen to this if you want to hear a narrator at the top of his game recount a fascinating--and at times disturbing--true story of adventure, disaster, discovery, cannibalism, and more. Will Damron makes Levy's fascinating account of the Greely (Polar) Expedition come to life...This is a...

Reveals the profound influence of the Denisovans and their hybrid descendants upon the flowering of human civilization around the world Traces the migrations of the sophisticated Denisovans and their interbreeding with Neanderthals and early human populations more than 40,000 years ago ...

Meet queer, BIPOC, and women artists around the world as they discuss the gifts, costs, and redemptive power of pursuing a creative life Is the all-encompassing quest to become a self-sustaining artist worth the sacrifices it often requires? Throughout her 20s and 30s, Stephanie Elizondo Griest...

*A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice* From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a “vivid” and “astonishingly comprehensive account [that] casts world history in a brilliant new light” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and shows how bold explorations and daring trade...

Bloomsbury presents Vermeer's Hat by Timothy Brook, read by Nathan Osgood In this critical darling Vermeer's captivating and enigmatic paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought-from Delft to Beijing--were transformed in the 17th century, when the world first became global...

The abyss is waking again. After surviving the nightmare beneath the Mariana Trench, Jack Sullivan hoped humanity had finally escaped extinction. The ancient seals hidden beneath Earth’s oceans remain stable. The terrifying creatures known as the Sleepers have once again been imprisoned. But something older is stirring beneath the Arctic ice. When a classified research expedition vanishes near Iceland after discovering impossible resonance signals beneath frozen Atlantic waters, Jack and Elena are pulled back into the abyss. Hidden beneath miles of ice lies a lost underwater civilization ...

Give Your Child the Confidence to Explore Without Fear—Master Compass Skills Today! Because knowing which way to go isn’t just a skill—it’s an adventure waiting to happen!

The authoritative book to help you make sense of the world - as told by a former British diplomat. 'A must-read to understand the often bewildering world we now live in, written as a scholarly book in an accessible tone' - READER REVIEW ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Iran. Greenland. Ukraine. Global politics...

In Journey Through The Solar System, you can join the experience of a lifetime without leaving your home. Get ready for an unforgettable space holiday! You're about to launch on a voyage beyond your wildest dreams, touring the marvels of our Solar System (the sun, planets, comets, and asteroids) and the mysteries of the cosmos.

Slaves and Masters is a bold and unsettling exploration of how power operates—psychologically, socially, and economically—in both historical and modern contexts. Ali Muattar examines slavery not merely as a historical institution, but as a persistent mindset—one that survives today through employment systems, economic dependency, political obedience, and psychological submission. Slaves, as portrayed in this book, are individuals stripped of autonomy, conditioned to adopt the beliefs, values, and ideologies of their masters. Masters, in contrast, thrive by sustaining imbalance, ...

When you become more than human, can you stay yourself? Michael Knightsbridge shouldn’t be president. Two years ago, he was a nobody—dead-end government job, failed relationships, going nowhere. Then he volunteered for a dark matter experiment at Berkeley that changed him. Gave him confidence. Ambition. A future with the woman he loves. Within months, he was running for president. But Michael isn’t working alone. During that experiment, something else awakened—an intelligence vast, sophisticated, and silicon-based. It shares his consciousness. Guides his decisions. Amplifies his ...

Explore the Forbidden Myths and Creatures They Tried to Forget - What if the creatures we call legends were warnings from the past? - Why do cultures who never met tell the same monstrous tales? - Could these ancient beasts still echo in our dreams today? Mythical Creatures and Cryptids is not just a collection - it's a global quest through the shadows of myth, where dragons might still slumber and trickster fox spirits may still whisper your name. Across continents and centuries, these beings emerged from the same question: What lives just beyond what we can see? Inside This Full-Colour ...

Wealth Tax Uncovered is a clear, balanced, and deeply informative examination of one of the most debated ideas in modern economic policy: the wealth tax. Rather than taking a political stance, the book guides readers through the full landscape of arguments, evidence, and historical examples that shape today’s discussions. It is written for curious citizens, investors, students, and policymakers who want to understand—not just react to—the complexities behind taxing concentrated wealth. The book begins by defining what a wealth tax is, how it differs from income taxes, capital‑gains ...

A ticking time bomb beneath America's most famous national park has just detonated. When a historic swarm of earthquakes tears open the caldera, it releases more than just superheated steam. From the deep, uncharted caverns beneath the park, an ancient, subterranean ecosystem is forced to the surface—and its apex predators are starving. Now, Ranger Mercer must lead a group of stranded civilians through an ash-choked nightmare. With the ground fracturing beneath their feet and an eruption threatening to blow, escaping the blast radius is only half the battle. Surviving the deadliest ...

"Petkoff gives a flawless performance of this doctor/naturalist's memoir, conveying both his inquisitiveness and assuredness with aplomb." - AudioFile "A fascinating, lyrical book... Reisman's experiences in other cultures bring a richness and depth to The Unseen Body. The way he thinks about...

They erased his research. Then they erased him. Now they need him to save the world. Physicist Dean Eckert spent years developing a theory that made powerful institutions deeply uncomfortable. Then his work vanished—scrubbed from databases, stripped from records, buried beneath layers of institutional silence. His career followed. His name followed. The life he built, gone. He should have been forgotten. Then the anomaly appeared. A phenomenon unlike anything in recorded science begins spreading across the planet, warping gravitational fields, destabilizing critical systems, and turning ...

The universe didn't end with a bang. It ended with a data anomaly. Dr. Cora Mathis was a brilliant astrophysicist before she sold her soul to corporate supply-chain logistics. But when she inherits her estranged father's journal, she discovers a terrifying mathematical truth: a rogue wave of exotic dark matter is sweeping through the galaxy, acting as a cosmic fire blanket and turning off the stars one by one. And it’s hitting our sun in exactly 412 days. The academic establishment won't listen. The government demands decades of peer review. So Cora does the only logical thing: she ...

From the New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in 12 Maps, this is the revelatory history of the four cardinal directions that have oriented and defined our place on the globe for millennia. North, south, east, and west: almost all societies use these four cardinal...