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An incredible, searing memoirwhich starts with the abduction of the author's children then goes on to tackle the biggest questions about who we are a call to arms, sure to provoke debate

What do you do when your wife abducts your children? This was the question facing Douglas Galbraith when, in 2003, he returned home to Scotland from a few days' work in London. The house was silent, empty, and locked; his four and six-year-old sons' pajamas lay on the bedroom floor. And on the doormat, confirmation from the Post Office of a forwarding address in Japan. He has not seen them since. This...

A prolific author and founding member of the Royal Society, John Evelyn (1620-1706) was one of the most remarkable intellectuals in late seventeenth-century English society. While his diary has long been considered second only to that of Samuel Pepys in importance, until quite recently his papers were inaccessible to scholars.

The Letterbooks of John Evelyn, a 2-volume collection of more than eight hundred letters selected by Evelyn himself, constitutes an essential new resource for scholars of seventeenth-century England. The two books in this set give modern readers...