REBECCA SMYTH

This wonderous guide for the curious introduces eighteen hidden places and the eccentric and obsessive minds that created them, such as a chamber of skulls high in the Swiss Alps, a Japanese temple full of traps and a spooky "initiation" well in...

"A definitive history of the race to unravel DNA's structure, by one of our most prominent medical historians. Biologist James Watson and physicist Francis Crick's 1953 revelation about the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of...

A thirty-two-year-old mentally handicapped man takes part in an innovative scientific experiment to raise his intelligence.

A young Jewish-American woman learns that she has brain cancer and through a series of flashbacks examines her wasted life.