The book is the first of a trilogy, including Darkness at Noon , and Arrival and Departure , which address idealism going wrong. This is a common theme in Koestlers work and life. Koestler uses his portrayal of the original slave revolt to examine the...
The most adventourous, polymathic - and readable - scientific populariser of the age offers in Janus a summing up of a quarter of a century's study and speculations on the life sciences and their philosophic implications. Koestler has an interesting...
All original edition. Nothing added, nothing removed. This book traces the history of the ancient Khazar Empire, a major but almost forgotten power in Eastern Europe, which in the Dark Ages became converted to Judaism. Khazaria was finally wiped out by...