Describes the atmosphere and surface of Mars, including recent findings from NASA space probes, and surveys the history of our attempts to discover more about this planet.
Explores such topics as intelligence and memory, sleep, brain waves, right/left coordination, pain, biofeedback, phrenology, memory transplants, psychic powers, and brain research and technology.
Examines the important events, dates, and civilizations that shaped the early Middle Ages including invasion by Germanic tribes, early Christian church, feudalism, Islam, the Byzantine period, and the Vikings.
Surveys new theories, discoveries, and realms of inquiry in biology, discussing evolution, gene therapy, genetic engineering, life on other planets, and other topics.
This book traces the history of the Civil War, the four-year struggle between the slave-free North and the slaveholding South, and explains that by the second year of the war emancipation became a major goal for the North.
