The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown is the bestseller about a modern search to locate the legendary Holy Grail before it - and an alternate history of Christ that could topple the Church - is destroyed fo
The Knights' Code is an ancient book: a guide every knight-in-training receives upon entering Knighton's prestigious Knights Academy. This unique format looks just like the ACTUAL Knights' Code from t
Dan Brown’s mega-bestseller is now available for a new generation of readers. This young adult adaptation takes readers from Paris to London on a breathless tour of famous landmarks and will remind fa
Michael Lewis returns to the financial world to lay bare the biggest new story since the crash. The old image of Wall Street, of alpha males shouting at each other in trading pits, is no more.&
Thirteen-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl has constructed a supercomputer from stolen fairy technology. In the wrong hands it could be fatal for humans and fairies alike. But no need to worry
An ingenious code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci.A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe.An astonishing truth concealed for centuries . . . unveiled at last.While in Pa
While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police ha
January, 1958—the darkest hour of the cold war and the early dawn of the space race. On the launch pad at Cape Canaveral sits America’s best hope to catch up with the Russians—the Explorer I satellite
“Thor tops himself again and again.” —BookReporter.com“Feels like the TV show 24 on the page.” —The Associated Press#1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor presents his greatest thriller ever—a
Oct. 11th, 1943?A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely
This revolutionary approach to happiness, developed by two prominent leaders in the field of psychology, combines six decades of clinical experience with the most up-to-date research to help readers p
"A PULSE-QUICKENING,BRAIN-TEASING ADVENTURE...[BROWN IS] A NEW MASTER OF SMART THRILLS."__PeopleWhile in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night.
RUNNING OUT OF TIME Reeling from the news of her late mother's secret life in the Mafia, Gabriella Radcliffe has twenty-four hours to return incriminating evidence her mother stole from them. If
What if there was an algorithm that could predict which novels become mega-bestsellers? Are books like Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code and Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl the Gladwellian outliers of publishi
Number 9 tells the story of Enjil, a boy mathematician who is challenged by a spirit to solve the riddle, What is the fixed point of the wind? As Enjil searches for the answer, he and the reader embar
"All of the Author Proceeds will be donated to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation"DISCOVER THE REWARDS OF GIVING WITH SANTA S GIFT"In his Santa activities, Jeff has redefined family, embra
Geronimo Stilton loves to solve a mystery! So when his sister Thea hears of a secret hidden in Mouse Island's most famous painting - the Mona Mousa - they set out to crack the code. The trail of clues
This uniquely effective guide helps readers master the 2014 National Electrical Code, using highly detailed, technically accurate illustrations to make even the most complex aspects of the Code easier
Francis Crick, who died at the age of eighty-eight in 2004, will be bracketed with Galileo, Darwin, and Einstein as one of the great scientists of all time. Between 1953 and 1966 he made and led a rev
This book is devoted to anticipating and addressing where the field of political humor and its effects will move in the next generation of scholarship, exploring the continued evolution of the study o
In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, this collection—which gathers scholars in the fields of race, ethnicity, and humor—seems especially urgent. Inspired by Denmark’s Muhammad cartoons controvers
From Blackface to Black Twitter: Reflections on Black Humor, Race, Politics, & Gender traces the roots and fruits of comedy over the centuries to analyze and offer insights into the intersections of r
From Blackface to Black Twitter: Reflections on Black Humor, Race, Politics, & Gender traces the roots and fruits of comedy over the centuries to analyze and offer insights into the intersections of r
Laugh Hard, Laugh Loud, Laugh Often From the creator of the popular "Maxine" series of books and greeting cards from Hallmark comes a celebration of one of life's simplest pleasures. Of all the gifts
From 1840 to 1848, journalist C. M. Haile published a series of mock letters-to-the-editor in the New Orleans Picayune under the pseudonym "Pardon Jones." With their rural dialect, outlandish and amu
Playgrounds let you learn by doing! This book teaches you how to build playgrounds so you can test your code, syntax, and ideas quickly. You can even learn from playgrounds built by others or build pl
The fourteen chapters in this anthology feature original analyses of contemporary German-language literary texts, films, political cartoons, cabaret, and other types of performance. The artworks displ
This book offers the first comprehensive and in-depth exploration of the way Chinese humor fits into broader discourses on Chinese identity and modernity in an increasingly globalized world throughout
Berk (professor of biostatistics and measurement and assistant dean for teaching at the School of Nursing, The Johns Hopkins University) shows how humor can be used as a teaching or assessment tool in
From the Borscht Belt shtick of Rodney Dangerfield to the urbane wit of Jerry Seinfeld, Jewish humor has had an enormous influence on modern comedy. Jokes about doctors, jokes about food, and of cour
My Mind Is Out To Get Me reflects both the lighter side of living a sober life and the profound wisdom offered in recovery. When recovering alcoholic Dr. Ron B. began attending Alcoholics Anonymous m
Women with attitude; chicks with balls; and spirited females who proudly own the word ?bitches.” Bad Girls Go Everywhere is a collection of 300 kick-ass quotes with words of wisdom, inspiration, humor
In this intimate and funny collection of essays on the sometimes confusing, sometimes poignant, sometimes hilarious condition of being a woman over sixty, Susan Moon keeps her sense of humor and she k
Have you ever seen an angel? Have you ever had a dog? If so, then you have seen an angel. Author Jeri K. Miller shows us how to recognize the angels who are our furry friends. Angels are funny and ent
