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Using the unique approach that he has employed in his previous books, author, columnist, and television commentator James Burke shows us our connections to the fifty-six men who signed the Declaration of Independence.

Whether exploring electromagnetic fields, the origin of hot chocolate, or DNA fingerprinting, these essays -- which originally appeared in James Burke's popular Scientific American column -- all illustrate the serendipitous and surprisingly ...

Explores the accidents of time, place, and circumstance that culminated in the century's technological achievements: the computer, the telephone, the production line, the airplane, the atomic bomb, the guided rocket, plastics, and ...

In each of the work's twenty-five narratives, we discover how the different outcomes of an important historical event in the past often come together again in the future.

In The Knowledge Web, James Burke, the bestselling author and host of television's Connections series, takes us on a fascinating tour through the interlocking threads of knowledge running through Western history.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Yet when Burke arrives, he finds himself falling in love, both with the Land of Silver, and Ana O?Gorman, lover of a rebel leader determined to bring about Burke?s downfall ?