Publicity

Apparently The Story of Western Science offers readers an unusually good chance of winning at their local pub’s Trivia Night. Or, you know, Jeopardy. ” This easy-to-read, incredibly [...]

Today’s publication day for Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child’s Education! So I’ll just be deworming sheep and then heading to the office. When your first book [...]

I’m happy to announce that the fourth edition of The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home now has a publication date (September 13, 2016) and is available for [...]

Update: Norton has changed the title to The Story of Western Science. I had no control over this decision and am a little worried about what it will do to the book…but that’s what [...]

Booklist Reviews 2015 May #1 When Lucretius pondered the “ceaseless motion” of atoms, he inscribed ancient science in lapidary poetry. But Bauer identifies Lucretius as but one link [...]

The official publication date for The Story of Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang is May 11, but copies already seem to be floating around/shipping from online [...]

In my ongoing effort to stay home and write more/travel less (and as part of my continual unhappiness with home education conferences), I’m trying out the online conference scene. This [...]

Note: W. W. Norton has now retitled the book “The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory.”  The first big industry review of The Story of [...]

Julie from Trinity, NC, home schooling this year for the first time and using classical methods Debbie from Florida, mother of two girls, aged ten and eleven Tabitha from Florida, a reader of The [...]

I am so grateful for everyone who posted to the galley give-away contest, and I wish I had many more copies to distribute! I did dig up a couple more, so we drew eight names from the 776 comments [...]

I am thrilled to report that the galleys (prepublication copies) of The Story of Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory have arrived! And I’d like to share them with [...]

Note: this book was originally published as “The Story of Science,” but my publisher has now changed the title to “The Story of Western Science.” “Far too often, [...]