The cinema, like language, can be said to exist as a system of differences, and in his latest book the acclaimed philosopher Jacques Ranciere relates cinema to literature and theatre. With literature,
A wake-up call for middle class Americans who feel trapped in a post-crisis economic slump, The Unfair Trade is a riveting expose of the vast global financial system whose flaws are the source of our
An original book on the craft of mixology is a rare gem. Gary Regan’s The Joy of Mixology is such a gem, one whose genius lies in Regan’s breakthrough system for categorizing drinks that helps bartend
Starting today, you don't have to live in pain.That is the revolutionary message of this breakthrough system for eliminating chronic pain without drugs, surgery, or expensive physical therapy. Develop
"A law professor sounds an explosive alarm on the hidden unfairness of our legal system."—Kirkus Reviews, starredA child is gunned down by a police officer; an investigator ignores c
"Horn Please" is the mantra of the rapidly expanding Indian highway system, and some version of that sentiment is written on the back of practically every truck on the road. One unmistakable feature o
Every person inherits a system of beliefs. Maybe yours came from community, or church, or society, or your parents. But one day you reach a breaking point. You look at the rituals and traditions and w
Here is a stunning and provocative guide to the future of international relations—a system for managing global problems beyond the stalemates of business versus government, East versus West,
Portable enough to accompany your PDA, there’s no better backup system for recording contact info than this durable little address book. You’ll be glad to have it when the digital version lets you dow
This powerful expose reveals how America's ailing prison system undermines the public trust. For ten years, David Matlin taught at a maximum-security prison, where he confronted daily the nature of so
An astrologer introduces a simple system that uses an ordinary pack of playing cards to answers questions about personal relationships, forecast one's romantic future, and find one's soul mate. Origin
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Ali Wong’s heartfelt and hilarious letters to her daughters (the two she put to work while they were still in utero) cover everything they need to know in life, like the un
In a tour-de-force tapestry of science fiction and historical fiction, Andromeda Romano-Lax presents a story set in Japan and Taiwan that spans a century of empire, conquest, progress, and destruction
Walter Mosley's indelible detective Easy Rawlins is back, with a new detective agency and a new mystery to solve.Picking up where Rose Gold left off in L.A. in the late 1960s, Ezekiel "Easy&a
From the bestselling master espionage writer, hailed by Vince Flynn as “the best in the business,” comes a riveting novel about the French Resistance in Nazi-occupied Paris.From the Hardcover edition.
From the bestselling master espionage writer, hailed by Vince Flynn as “the best in the business,” comes a riveting novel about the French Resistance in Nazi-occupied Paris.
A lush, thrilling debut--a publishing event already the subject of an article in The New York Times--about a year in the life of a uniquely beguiling young woman, set in the wild, alluring wo
From the author of the #1 best seller The Girl in the Spider's Web--an electrifying thriller that begins with Alan Turing's suicide, and then opens out to take in a young detective's awakening to pain
In 1956, Hellboy caravans across Mexico--vampire-hunting with luchadores, finding the Aztec Gods, fighting evil turkeys and Frankenstein's monster, and drinkingway too much tequila, in the strangest c
In a fiery polemic on our personal finances, Gerri Willis, anchor and personal finance correspondent for Fox Business News, reveals how liberal policy has decimated our wallets. In Rich Is No
The Last Stop does far more than capture the remarkable, effective design of our nation's road stops. It preserves a moment in time that is quickly fading, a unique period in the American tra
In this stunning debut, author Bill Beverly delivers a story unlike anything else in fiction: a dark, haunting, literary crime novel that is also a powerful coming-of-age narrative.Dodgers is the stor
A sweeping, richly detailed history that tells the fascinating story of the invention of paper in China two thousand years ago, its spread across Eurasia, and its role in the dawning of European moder
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer faces an ultimate Big Bad, Archaeus, who is connected to many from her past. She calls in reinforcements to help the Scoobies in this battle-her old flame, the vampire Angel"
The follow-up to the hugely popular All the Buildings in New York, this is a charmingly illustrated journey through London, one building at a time.All the Buildings in Londo
A boldly candid, raw portrait of young woman's search for meaning and purpose in an indifferent worldDecisively aimless, dangerously self-destructive, and impulsively in and out of love, Elsie is a yo
A literary erotic treasure: the recently discovered letters that chronicle the passionate affair of a young woman in Paris in 1928 While helping a friend clear out an old apartment in Paris,
Georgia O’Keeffe, her love affair with photographer Alfred Stieglitz, and her quest to become an independent artist come to life in this sensuous and wonderfully written novel, a dazzling departure in
"The novel opens in 1832 in the Black Hawk War, when Micajah (Cage) Weatherby--an imaginary character--and Lincoln meet. Afterwards Cage musters out to Springfield, Illinois, where he becomes part of
Jane Austen turns sleuth in this delightful Regency-era mysteryNovember, 1815. The Battle of Waterloo has come and gone, leaving the British economy in shreds; Henry Austen, high-flying banker extraor
In the wake of the attacks at Fort Hood, the Boston Marathon, and in Paris, here is a riveting, panoramic look at "homegrown" Islamist terrorism, from 9/11 to the presentSince 9/11,
Continuing his quest to destroy the Red King, Lord Baltimore heads to the icy Baltic Sea and to northern Russia, but he finds witchcraft in the streets of St. Petersburg and evil in its shadows. With
The author of the acclaimed Stringer: A Reporter’s Journey in the Congo now moves on to Rwanda for a gripping look at a country caught still in political and social unrest, years after the genocide th
"It's May and the snow has hardly melted in Goteborg, Sweden, but things are heating up quickly for Detective Inspector Irene Huss in the Violent Crimes Unit. The body of a teenage girl is found in th
Celebrating 20 years of Kabuki, This is the second volume in a complete set of the entire critically acclaimedKabuki series in large oversize library editions.This edition collects the Kabuki volumes:
In Draper, Utah, a tight-knit Mormon community is thrown into upheaval when their ward's second counselor, one of the bishop's right-hand men, is found dead in an elaborately staged murder on church p
An impassioned and learned account of atheism's origins in antiquity.Long before the Enlightenment sowed the seeds of disbelief in a deeply Christian Europe, atheism was a matter of serious public deb
For the first time in years, new mega-resorts are opening on the Strip and in Greater Las Vegas, and in 2014 visitors to Las Vegas reached a record 41.1 million. Fodor's writers have been on the scene
In 1946, Victor Sebestyen creates a taut, panoramic narrative and takes us to meetings that changed the world: to Berlin in July 1945, when Truman tells Stalin we have successfully tested the bomb; to
In the epic historical novel Sword of Honor, David Kirk continues the saga of Musashi Miyamoto, the greatest samurai in Japanese history, as he journeys to the ancient city of Kyoto to fight for his l
