HEAL THYSELF: Nicholas Culpeper and the Seventeenth-Century Struggle to Bring Medicine to the People
Benjamin Woolley, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (402p) ISBN 978-0-06-009066-1
Ostensibly a biography of Culpeper, who first translated Latin medical works into English in the 17th century, this book goes well beyond the life of one individual to document the transformation of medicine during one of the most traumatic periods...
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Benjamin Woolley, Author . HarperCollins $27.50 (469p) ISBN 978-0-06-009056-2
This highly readable account of the founding of Jamestown moves from the English throne to the daily struggles of the colony's first settlers and the experience of Virginia's Indians as their relations with colonists became increasingly...
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Benjamin Woolley, Author Henry Holt & Company $25 (355p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6509-1
Galileo, Kepler and Newton are generally credited with having accomplished the profound intellectual revolution that created modern science. Though they have done their work so well that it is perhaps impossible for us now to take seriously someone...
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Benjamin Woolley, Author McGraw-Hill Companies $27.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-07-137329-6
A life of pure reason, or of dangerous passion? No middle course appeared to be available for Lord Byron's unhappy daughter, Ada (1815-1852), who channeled her brilliance into mathematical pursuits and wrote what is considered one of the world's...
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Benjamin Woolley. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-12503-3
Woolley (The Herbalist) delves into the colorful life of the seductive 17th-century English duke George Villiers, favorite of King James I. Elegant and smooth talking, George Villiers rose above his impoverished family to become James’s confidante...
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