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John Maddox

Sir John Royden Maddox, FRS (27 November 1925 12 April 2009) was a British science writer. He was an editor of Nature for 22 years, from 19661973 and...

SPQR XII: Oracle of the Dead (The SPQR Roman Mysteries)

Decius Caecilius Metellus, this year's magistrate for cases involving foreigners, is living the good life in southern Italy, happy to be away from Rome, a city suffering war jitters over Caesar's impending actions. He thinks he is merely visiting one of the local sights when he takes a party to visi...

SPQR XI: Under Vesuvius (The SPQR Roman Mysteries)

Things are going well for Decius Caecilius Metellus. He is Praetor Peregrinus, which means he has to judge a case or two, but those cases are outside of the City. His cases will be those dealing with foreigners, and all of Italy is his province. His first stop is Campania, “Italy’s most popular reso...

The River God's Vengeance (SPQR VIII)

He would rise up as savior of the State, but Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger already has a lot on his mind. In the year of his aedileship, Decius is expected to stage elaborate and expensive games out of his own pocket. Along with his duties of pleasing the crowds with the feats of gladiators...

SPQR X: A Point of Law (The SPQR Roman Mysteries)

Decius Caecilius Metellus is moving up in the world. He's won some money and glory fighting pirates in the Mediterranean and expects a speedy election to the office of praetor.That all changes when a man he's never seen before publicly accuses him of corruption. Decius and his powerful family of Rom...

The Tribune's Curse (SPQR VII)

I was happier than any mere mortal has a right to be and I should have known better. The entire body of received mythology and every last Greek tragedy ever written have made one inescapable truth utterly clear: If you are supremely happy, the gods have it in for you. They don't like for mortals t...

SPQR XIII: The Year of Confusion: A Mystery (The SPQR Roman Mysteries)

Caius Julius Caesar, now dictator of Rome, has decided to revise the Roman calendar, which has become out of sync with the seasons. As if this weren't already an unpopular move, Caesar has brought in astronomers and astrologers from abroad, including Egyptians, Greeks, Indians, and Persians. Decius ...

Saturnalia (SPQR V)

Every culture has its wild entertainment, but the Roman Saturnalia is looked upon as the granddaddy of them all.Roberts's vivid fictional account of the annual event takes place in first century Rome is a historically correct picture of excess, with the city's ordinary life shut down, all rules and ...

The King's Gambit (SPQR I)

Blackmail, corruption, treachery, murder--the glory that was Rome.In this Edgar Award-nominated mystery, John Maddox Roberts takes readers back to a Rome filled with violence and evil. Vicious gangs ruled the streets of Crassus and Pompey, routinely preying on plebeian and patrician alike, so the g...

Shamans and Shamanism

The Medicine Man: A Sociological Study of the Character and Evolution of Shammanism

Medicine Man: A Sociological Study of the Character and Evolution of Shamanism, 1923

The Doomsday Syndrome

The Spread of Nuclear Weapons

Science in Tomorrow's Europe

The Doomsday Syndrome

Beyond the Energy Crisis