For Grace, the ardent yet puzzled heroine of Andrea Barrett’s third novel, this trip has been planned as a three-week stay: she’s to play dutiful wife to Walter, her prominent scientist husband, at th
Discusses the advantages of cross-training, tells how to set up a personalized workout program, and discusses equipment, competition, injury prevention, and nutrition
In God Is Green, Ian Bradley recovers the green heart of Christianity--a God who clothes wildflowers in splendor; reminds Job of his humble part in the cosmic drama; and sends a Cosmic Christ to ennob
Here is welcome news for the millions of people who suffer from allergies--and for the many more whose ailments have a hidden allergic cause.Recent medical discoveries reveal that a number of common i
???The Communist bloc has collapsed. Factional strife is on the rise. The West faces an uncertain future. What is the message of Mary, the Mother of Jesus, for these times????To find an answer, Dudley
Essays on the morality of the Persian Gulf War, with particular reference to just war theory, by Michael Walzer, George Weigel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Sari Nusseibeh, and Stanley Hauerwas. Required rea
The most gifted of her famous, troubled family, Emily Bronte has too often been portrayed in "storm-tossed, sentimental" biographies, according to Katherine Frank. Now Frank presents a startling new i
"One parent is worth a thousand teachers."--Chinese Proverb. The sound, practical advice found in this worthwhile guide will help parents--a child's first and most important teachers--instill in their
Drawing on Edward VIII's diaries and love letters and on the private papers of Chamberlain, Churchill, and Baldwin, this biography reveals the man who gave up a throne for love
A collection of short stories which illuminate, with imagery and humour, the darkest corners of the American soul. The author attempts to capture the personalities of rural America, shaped by povert
Cat Dependency. What is it? Who suffers from it? And how can those afflicted free themselves from the tyranny of their tabbies? At last, there's a book that offers new hope to the millions who for yea
Demonstrates how one number--CSI, the cholesterol-saturated fat index--tracks and can help reduce the risk of heart disease by 40 percent, and also includes the CSI rating for hundreds of foods, as we
Presents information on the latest diagnostic tests and cures for headaches and discusses types of headaches, biofeedback, relaxation techniques, and diet and exercise
The obesity rate among children has doubled in the last twenty years, while the incidence of anorexia nervosa and bulimia has grown among adolescents and young adults to almost epidemic proportions. T
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (for The New York Times ) Wilford synthesizes myth, history, politics, and high technology in tracing man's relationship with Mars from antiquity to the pre
Traces the life of the American novelist from her childhood in the newly settled prairies of Nebraska through her years as a journalist, editor, and teacher, and examines the relationship between what
A noted dermatologist offers a definitive guide to the skin problems affecting infants, toddlers, and small children, discussing the best brand-name products to use, home therapies vs. medical treatme
In Under God, Garry Wills, one of our liveliest and most eminent political observers, moves through the tapestry of American history, illuminating the instances where American politics and American re
Eleven-year oldCarrie loves spending summers with her grandparents in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Their farm with a country storeand a lunchroom, is safe and far removed from the terrible d
The bestselling author of Smart Women, Foolish Choices and Women Men Love, Women Men Leave now turns his keen insights toward the individual and the quest for fulfillment. Dr. Kinder says people must
By the author of the highly acclaimed literary bestseller Dictionary of the Khazars, this is a tale of a mysterious quest that is part modern Odyssey and part crossword puzzle. It begins with the stor
Through these pages pass con men, an opinionated small-town barber, a nurse who chatters on and on--much to the chagrin of her charges--baseball players and boxers. Published in "The Saturday Evening
The highly acclaimed novelist and biographer Albert Murray tells his classic memoir of growing up in Alabama during the 1920s and 1930s in South to a Very Old Place. Intermingling remembrances of yout
Young Wynne of Gwernach believes love is an illusion. She devotes herself to managing the great family estate in Wales, vowing to protect it and her younger brother until he comes of age to inherit. T
Irresistible, sophisticated trivia--Poundstone establishes objective ways of determining which really is the biggest, the highest, the greatest, and the best in a series of witty anecdotal and provoca
If the universe could talk, what would it say?"An engaging and provocative book."--Teaching Philosophy"This book is distinctive and fascinating partly because of its format: not the but an autobiograp
In the stunning final volume of the World Fantasy Award-winning anthology, editor Charles Grant closes a decade of award-winning fantasy with a last spectacular anthology of more than 450 pages of ric
"You Know me Al" is a classic of baseball--the game and the community. Jack Keefe, one of literature's greatest characters, is talented, brash, and conceited. Self-assured and imperceptive, impervious
Surveys the history of the music industry, and uses interviews to describe the experience of songwriters, recording artists, and managers, and how they got their start
Suggests fishing vacations in England, Ireland, Scotland, Bhutan, Norway, Europe, Chile, New Zealand, Alaska, the Pacific coast, the Florida keys, Labrador, and New England
From the Fire Trail of Sun Valley, Idaho, to New Zealand's remote Tyndall Glacier, here are 20 great ski vacations guaranteed to make your next ski vacation your best ever. If you are tired of seeing
On her sixteenth birthday, Beauty, daughter of Philip, Duke of Montfort, Westfaire and Ylles, sidesteps the sleeping curse placed upon her by her wicked aunt, the fairy Carabosse -- only to be kidnapp
Early Celtic Christianity was a different kind of Christianity--earth-centered, mystical, poetic, humorous, individualistic--and the texts it produced are perfectly attuned to our age. These ancient t
"How can we know any of this is true?" A.N. Wilson asks in this brilliant search for what is true in the Christian faith. "How much of the Christian religion, or what survives of it, is really ture? H
On a crisp autumn day in Ohio, 1858, two Kentucky slave hunters were closing in on a runaway slave named John Price. Federal law said they had the right to bring the man back across state lines. But t
Describes the changes that take place during each month of pregnancy, and offers advice on diet, exercise, emotional changes, maternity leave, and doctor selection
Since the 1950s Peter Matthiessen has written fiction and nonfiction of elemental power and moral vision, including the acclaimed novels At Play in the Fields of the Lord and Far Tortuga and works of
As ambassador to the United Nations from 1981 to 1985, Jeane Kirkpatrick was the clearest and most unmistakable voice of the Reagan administration's resistance to Soviet expansionism. Her tenacity hal
