The doctor needs money to pay off a voyage to Africa, so he joins the circus with the pushmi-pullyu as his attraction. He enlightens a circus owner who ca...

Doctor Dolittle’s Garden is structurally the most disorganised of Hugh Lofting’s Doctor Dolittle books. The first part would fit very well into Doctor Dol...

Doctor Dolittle’s Return is lighter and more comic than other Dolittle books. Tommy Stubbins waits for Doctor Dolittle’s return from the Moon. When the Do...

Every day we spent on Earth led to the present moment. Technological progress, the industrial revolution, the emergence of a consumer society - all this has ...

Drawing from the horizons of science, today’s leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about—and expose the false fears everyone else ...

The first kings of the Plantagenet dynasty inherited a blood-stained kingdom from their Norman ancestors and turned it into an empire stretching from Scotlan...

Depression makes life meaningless. Colors fade, tastes dull, joy fades. The strongest feelings are shame and despair. In this book, four world leaders in the...

This walk around Paris was arranged for us by John Baxter, who, having been born in Australia and having spent many years in the USA, has now settled in the ...

“Jesus for Unbelievers” - published for the first time in Russian, one of the most famous - heatedly discussed, quoted books by John Shelby Spong, a bishop w...

There are many myths in the history of science. Their heroes are great scientists. - real knights of honor, selfless, noble, sacrificing everything they have...

Fairy tales are not for the faint of heart: they are either hit or miss. However, since childhood, we have been attracted to their world - not the same as ou...