Books written by Edward Dolnick
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Madness on the Couch: Blaming the Victim in the Heyday of Psychoanalysis
Describing in vivid detail the failure of 1950s and 1960s psychiatry to cure mental illness through psychotherapy, a critical study profiles the leaders of that movement and explores the negative effects of blaming families for such ...
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The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone
A riveting portrait of empires both ancient and modern, this is an unparalleled look at the culture and history of ancient Egypt and a fascinating, fast-paced story of human folly and discovery unlike any other.
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Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon
Drawing on rarely examined diaries and journals, Down the Great Unknown is the first book to tell the full, dramatic story of the Powell expedition.
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The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece
The Rescue Artist is a rollicking narrative that carries readers deep inside the art underworld -- and introduces them to a large and colorful cast of titled aristocrats, intrepid investigators, and thick-necked thugs.
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The Clockwork Universe: saac Newto, Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern WorldI
The Clockwork Universe is the story of a band of menwho lived in a world of dirt and disease but pictured auniverse that ran like a perfect machine.
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The Seeds of Life: From Aristotle to da Vinci, from Sharks' Teeth to Frogs' Pants, the Long and Strange Quest...
The Seeds of Life is the remarkable and rollicking story of how a series of blundering geniuses and brilliant amateurs struggled for two centuries to discover where, exactly, babies come from.
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Nowe życie: jak największe umysły wszech czasów odkryły, skąd się biorą dzieci
Edward Dolnick przedstawia fascynującą historię poszukiwania odpowiedzi na pytanie, które jako dziecko zadaje każdy z nas. Ukazuje naukowców jako detektywów na tropie największej biologicznej zagadki.
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The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century
Profiles the dramatic art hoax through which a small-time Dutch painter conned a reviled Nazi leader by creating works that impersonated those of famed artist Jan Vermeer, a seven-year deception during which the forger hid his mediocre ...
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The Rush: America's Fevered Quest for Fortune, 1848-1853
In The Rush, Edward Dolnick brilliantly recounts their treacherous westward journeys by wagon and on foot, and takes us to the frenzied gold fields and the rowdy cities that sprang from nothing to jam-packed chaos.
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The Rush: America's Fevered Quest for Fortune, 1848-1853
In THE RUSH, Edward Dolnick brilliantly recounts their treacherous westward journeys by wagon and on foot, and takes us to the frenzied gold fields and the rowdy cities that sprang from nothing to jam-packed chaos.
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The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone
"Carved in ancient Egypt, the Rosetta Stone carried the same message in different languages--in Greek using Greek letters, and in Egyptian using picture-writing called hieroglyphs.
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The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece
The Rescue Artist is a rollicking narrative that carries readers deep inside the art underworld--and introduces them to a large and colorful cast of titled aristocrats, intrepid investigators, and thick-necked thugs.
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The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century
Instead, he landed in an Amsterdam court on trial for his life. The Forger’s Spell is the gripping, true tale of this almost perfect crime.