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Provides an illustrated biography of Isaac Newton chronicling his life and accomplishments. Includes a timeline and fact boxes on seventeenth-century life.

Details the astronomic discoveries of William Herschel, who discovered the seventh planet, and also did work with his sister Caroline to produce the first map of the night sky.

A group of gentlemen, including Harry Houdini, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and psychoanalyst Dr. Nandor Fodor, assemble in the realm of the imagination to hear the story of the haunting of the Bell family and offer their opinions on who or what the spirit really was.

Lists the plots and characters of Doyle's sixty Holmes stories discussed in relation to the author's own life and career.

An account of treachery in British and American intelligence agencies.

Details Newton's life from a childhood in Lincolnshire to the heretical religious ideas that absorbed him as a scientist.

An historical account of his capture and sack of the city of Panama in 1671.

Dramatizes the story of William Wallace, the man who rallied the people of medieval Scotland to fight for liberty from their English overlords.