In a previous book, "Searching for Memory," Schacter, who heads the Harvard psychology department, provided a comprehensive, highly readable intellectual history of memory research.

For a readable history of the period see the book, "Boltzmann's Atom".

This is stirring and humane military history, often readable only through the spaces between your fingers.

This vivid, readable history tells of a cultural transformation that took place around the beginning of the 19th century and which shapes the way we think today.

"The Microprocessor" is a readable history of the primary invention of our time, covering the period from 1970 to this moment and looking ahead to the early 2000's.

A vividly readable history of the Revolution and the personalities behind it.

An exhaustive and addictively readable history of the ironclad automaton and a meditation on the armored machine's power to stoke our most primitive responses.

A very readable history with emphasis on solving polynomial equations and the structures of modern algebra.

In a statement Mr. Connery said, "Our goal is to produce a very readable, visually stimulating and hopefully intriguing history of Scotland, with personal discoveries."

It would be hard to imagine a more readable general history of the West that covers so much ground so incisively.