The highly anticipated sixth and final book of the Earth's Children series, "The Land of Painted Caves" will be an international publishing event. Auel gives fans the finale they've been waiting for as she continues the story of Ayla and Jondalar and their little daughter Jonalya. A remarkable re-creation of the way life was lived millions of years ago. Print run 1,000,000.

"The Elephant's Journey" is based on a true story, an elephant named Suleiman or Solomon was given to the Hapsburg Archduke Maximilian by King Joao III of Portugal in 1551, and to reach Austria, the elephant traveled on foot and by boat through Europe accompanied by the Prince and a royal retinue. Solomon was a sensation everywhere. Saramago has transformed this into a marvelous novel that re-creates a lost world and features one of his most appealing...

Join Lucy Worsley on a journey across Europe to visit the incredible locations where royal history was made. From the Spanish Armada to the French Revolution, learn how royal history is a mixture of facts, exaggeration, manipulation and mythology.

Describes how fourteen million people were murdered by Hitler's and Stalin's regimes in the area between Germany and Russia during the time when both men were in power and examines the motives and methods behind the mass murders.

Signs out of time, a film by Donna Read and Starhawk, examines the life and work of world-renowned archaeologist Dr. Marija Gimbutas. Drawing from her extensive knowledge of mythology and linguistics, Lithuanian-born Gimbutas uncovered the life-affirming and goddess-worshiping civilizations of pre-historic "Old Europe." Weaving together footage of Gimbutas herself, as well as interviews with her supporters and critics, Signs out of time reveals a...

*io9's New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books You Need to Put On Your Radar This Fall From the modern master of alternate history and New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove, Through Darkest Europe envisions a world dominated by a prosperous and democratic Middle East-and under threat from the world's worst trouble spot. Senior investigator Khalid al-Zarzisi is a modern man, a product of the unsurpassed educational systems of North Africa and...

Features the ancient cave paintings, drawings, and other forms of art that are currently open to the public in western Europe, with descriptions and pertinent travel information for each cave.

The Penguin History of Europe series reaches the twentieth century with acclaimed scholar Ian Kershaw's long-anticipated analysis of the pivotal years of World War I and World War II The European catastrophe, the long continuous period from 1914 to1949, was unprecedented in human history-an extraordinarily dramatic, often traumatic, and endlessly fascinating period of upheaval and transformation. This new volume in the Penguin History of Europe series...