A quirky tale infused with wit and wisdom Witch mania grips an idyllic English town in 1683 when five young girls accuse an old woman of witchcraft. A feisty fifteen-year-old girl and her righteous friend try to save the woman from the gallows. Their fight entraps them in a triangle of science, sorcery and superstition and turns into a journey of discovery of the ages-old conflict between reason and religion. This unique mix of fiction and history of science is presented in thirteen chapters: Casting the Circle; Raven; Cat; Broomstick; Demons; Wand; Blood; Bells; Knot; Imps; Coven; Sword;...

At 7.14 a.m. on June 30, 1908 a huge fireball exploded in the Siberian sky. A thousand times the force of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, it flattened an area of remote Tunguska forest bigger than metropolitan New York, forming a mushroom cloud that almost reached into space. What was it? A wayward black hole, a crashing comet, an rogue asteroid, an exotic rock of antimatter or mirror matter, a methane gas blast from below, an alien spacecraft, a laser beam fired by extraterrestrials, or an early experiment in nuclear physics which got out of hand? A century on, this grand dame of science...