Near a Thousand Tables - by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

A Short History of Wine - by Rod Phillips

Mapping Human History - by Steve Olsen

The Golden Ratio - The Story of Phi, The World's Most Astonishing Number - by Mario Livio

Rapport Sur Moi - by Gregoire Bouillier

Les Grands Navigateurs - by Alain Bombard

Secrets of Saffron - The vagabond Life of the World's Most Seductive Spice - by Pat Willard

The Spanish Armada - by Colin Martin and Geoffrey Parker

A Taste of Thyme - Culinary Cultures of the Middle East - Edited by Sami Zubaida and Richard Tapper

Caviar - The Strange History and Uncertain Future of the World's Most Coveted Delicacy - by Ingra Saffron

Mapping Human History - Raiders and Rebels - by Frank Sherry

The Elegant Universe - by Brian Greene

Guns, Germs and Steel - by Jared Diamond

A Confederacy of Dunces - by John Kennedy Toole

Foucault's Pendulum - by Umberto Eco

Baudolino - by Umberto Eco

Wind - How the Flow of Air Has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land - by Jan DeBlieu

e - The Story of a Number - by Eli Manor

How The Universe Got Its Spots - by Janna Lavin

The Extended Phenotype - by Ricahrd Dawkins

It Must Be Beautiful - Great Equations of Modern Science - Edited by Graham Farmelo

A History of Pi - by Petr Beckman

Deadly Feasts - by Richard Rhodes

Great Waters - by Deborah Cramer

1421 - The Year China Discovered America - by Gavin Manzies

Pyrates - George Mac Donald Fraser

The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin

Coffee - The Epic of a Commodity - by H. E. Jacob

Riddle of the Sands - by Erskine Childers

The Universe, The Gods, and Men - by Jean-Pierre Vernant

The Blind Watchmaker - by Richard Dawkins

We Followed Odysseus - by Hal Roth

The Selfish Gene - by Richard Dawkins

Longstreet Highroad Guide to the Chesapeake - by Deane Winegar