James Adams

What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in How...

The leviathan is the vast unity of the State. But how are unity, peace, and security to be attained? Hobbes' answer is sovereignty, but the resurgence of...

The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, returned de Gaulle to power,...

This riveting history is a firsthand account of the long and arduous search for one of the greatest explorers of the nineteenth century. Journalist and...

Young Stalin tells the story of an exceptional, charismatic, darkly turbulent young man born into obscurity, fancying himself a poet and a priest, and...

This gripping account of courage, achievement, and heartbreaking loss tells the story of Bonington's Boys, a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering...

The impact of The Late Great Planet Earth cannot be overstated. The New York Times called it the "number one bestseller of the decade." This blockbuster...

Americans need to toughen up, personally, culturally, and as a national fighting force, if we are to survive the unprecedented threat from Islamist assault....

These days, English professors prefer to teach anything and everything but classic English literature. They indoctrinate their students in Marxism and...

Stevenson's tragic masterpiece unfolds against a hauntingly beautiful Scottish landscape, where the 1745 Jacobite rising is dividing the country against...

This three-part work includes A Discourse on Method, Meditations on the First Philosophy, and Principles of Philosophy.By calling everything into doubt,...

Caius Cornelius Tacitus, a Roman orator and public official, is considered one of the greatest historians as well as one of the greatest prose stylists of...

On a freezing February day, a stranger emerges from out of the gray to request a room at a local provincial inn. Who is this out-of-season traveler? More...

In The Truth about Muhammad, New York Times bestselling author and Islam expert Robert Spencer offers a telling portrait of the founder of Islamperhaps the...

Before Jurassic Park, there was The Lost World.This classic terror-adventure novel has set the standard for today's popular entertainment as followed by...

From one of literature's finest storytellers comes an enchanting tale of secrets, the supernaturaland fatal attraction.Renowned English surgeon Arthur Burdon...

In this political work written in 1516, Utopia is the name given by Sir Thomas More to an imaginary island. Book I ofUtopia, a dialogue, presents a...

They adore her in Manhattan. They worship her in Hollywood. They idolize her in the liberal media. But out in the real world are those of us who see through...