May 1997, Russia, north of the Arctic Circle, a border patrol rookie receives a distress call from the long-abandoned Station 16, uninhabited since the heyday of massive nuclear testing more than thir
"Greenwich Village, 1970s: Rainey Royal, fourteen years old, talented, and troubled, lives in a once-elegant, now decaying brownstone with her father, a jazz musician with a cultish personality. Her m
A quirky compendium of questionnaires, tests, and games that explore the psychology of home and domestic relationships, from the creators of Mind Games and Psychobox.How do your personality and your h
Revered biographer Ray Monk solves the enigma of Robert Oppenheimer's life and personality and brilliantly illuminates his contribution to the revolution in twentieth-century physics. In Robert Opp
Using the skills and personality of Nancy Drew as a guide, presents tips and advice on how to live one's life like the girl detective, covering fashion, beauty, romance, relationships, survival, sleut
Because of their isolation from one another, each of Alaska’s Inside Passage communities is unique, with a personality and ambience all its own. Russian-accented Sitka has little in common with the bu
As the chef and owner of the acclaimed Blue Ginger restaurant in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and an Emmy award-winning television personality, Ming Tsai has become the standard-bearer of East-West cuisi
This is Your Brain on Sports is the book for sports fans searching for a deeper understanding of the games they watch and the people who play them. Sports Illustrated executive editor and bes
From the New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers byForeign Policy magazine, comes a riveting journey through one of Europe’s pivotal fronti
The authors of the New York Times bestseller Super Brain present a bold new understanding of our genes and how simple changes in lifestyle can boost genetic activity. The leap into "radical w
Hsu, a first-generation Chinese American, returns to China to discover the fate of his great-great-grandfather's long-buried porcelain collection and, in the process, unearths the key to understanding
This unpublished memoir from German-Catholic philosopher, Dietrich von Hildebrand, demonstrates his opposition to anti-Semitism, his precient understanding of just how deadly Nazism and Hitler would b
How artists from Giotto to Caravaggio have written a visual biography of Christ through the finest masterpieces in the history of art. In the Name of the Son approaches figurative art through the lens
A witty and probing travelogue through the landscapes associated with The Book of Mormon, it argues for taking The Book of Mormon seriously as work of American storytelling.
From the acclaimed author of the Booker-nominated The Dark Room: a novel of divided loyalties within a Protestant Irish family, the bitterness that wrenches it apart, and the hard-won understanding ne
"A revolutionary new understanding of the most famous and influential building in the world, a thesis that calls into question our basic understanding of the ancient civilization that we most identify
From the acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreams and Mr g, a meditation on the unexpected ways in which recent scientific findings have shaped our understanding of ourselves and our place in the cosmos.
"Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present, and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothe
Outlines an engaging way to instill an understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's classic works in children, outlining a family-friendly method that incorporates the history of Shakespearean thea
Sophisticated and well-curated, this photographic tour through Canada's history documents the nation's evolution over more than a century, as seen through the lens of photographers from The New York T
From the best-selling author of Sexual Personae and Break, Blow, Burn and one of our most acclaimed cultural critics, here is an enthralling journey through Western art’s defining moments, from the an
When I change I change fast. The moon drags the whatever-it-is up from the earth and it goes through me with crazy wriggling impatience . . . I’m twisted, torn, churned, throttled—then rushed through
This is a revised and updated edition of this popular Day Hike! title. The preeminent expert on meandering through nature, Seabury Blair Jr., guides your feet through some of the most picturesque scen
In an exploration of the limitations of language in understanding and describing the Holocaust, the award-winning, best-selling author of The Life of Pi presents a tale about a novelist and a taxiderm
In his groundbreaking New York Times bestselling books and compelling PBS specials, John Bradshaw transformed our understanding of the family and became a dominant figure in the field of addiction and
From the longtime CEO and chairman of Starbucks, a bold, dramatic work about the new responsibilities that leaders, businesses, and citizens share in American society today—as viewed through the intim
A love story and a journey through music, the exquisite and perfectly pitched new novel from the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
Create your own beautiful floral jewelry with small beads, needle and thread. Each major project has fully illustrated step-by-step instructions with lots of diagrams to guide you through the making p
A new, definitive life of an American icon, the visionary general who led American forces through three wars and foresaw his nation’s great geopolitical shift toward the Pacific Rim—from the Pulitzer
Paris, November 1989: Aimée Leduc is going through a rough patch. A freshman at a cutthroat medical college, she is faced with suspension when someone sabotages one of her final projects. She's just d
From one of our most widely praised travel writers--author of Wild Coast and Panther Soup--an eye-opening journey through Sri Lanka that, in the author's inimitable mixture
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
Traveling the Road of Kings through Shadizar the Wicked, Conan saves the life of a beautiful noblewoman, who promises to help the barbarian free his soul from a bewitched mirror. Plus: Conan meets Sol
The hotly anticipated first novel by lauded playwright and The Wire TV writer Kia Corthron,The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter sweeps American history from 1941 to the twenty-first century through the
A young Conan is falsely accused by an avaricious queen of murdering the king of Zamora. Without adequate defense or as avenue of escape, the Cimmerian is tortured, stabbed, dragged through the street
Front and center, America! Here comes action! Here comes adventure! Here comesThe Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot - a roller-coaster ride through the minds of Geof Darrow and Frank Miller, the tag tea
The essential tool for crafting Tweets, Tweeter's Composition Notebook will guide digital draftsment through the pitfalls fo their art, providing a nurturing haven for Tweeters at any level.
Sonchai Jitpleecheep, John Burdett's tortured Buddhist detective of the Royal Thai Police Force, has thrilled and charmed readers through the author's five previous Bangkok novels. Now Sonchai's back,
Primordial Landscapes: Iceland Revealed elegantly explores the diverse and raw beauty of Iceland's extraordinary landscapes through striking images by photographer and naturalist Feodor Pitcairn and t
