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The Science of the Oven - Herve This
Mayonnaise "takes" when a series of liquids form a semisolid consistency. Eggs, a liquid, become solid as they are heated, whereas, under the same conditions, solids melt. When mea... -
The Science of Evil - Simon Baron-Cohen
A pathbreaking autism researcher explores why some people lack empathy and what that absence means for our psychological understanding of evil. -
The Scarab Path - Adrian Tchaikovsky
SUMMARY: The war with the Wasp Empire has ended in a bitter stalemate, and Collegium has nothing to show for it but wounded veterans. Cheerwell Maker finds herself crippled in ways... -
The Saint of Dragons - Jason Hightman
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The ancient dragons -- of the time of the legendary Saint George and earlier -- have never disappeared entirely. Instead, they've moved undercover -- and into hum... -
The Saboteurs - W.E.B. Griffin
From Publishers WeeklyBestseller Griffin and his son, Butterworth, resuscitate Griffin's Men at War series, first published in paperback during the 1980s under the pseudonym Alex B... -
The Reverse Of The Medal - Patrick O'Brian
SUMMARY: Returning from his duties protecting whalers off South America, Jack Aubrey is persuaded to make investments in the city. It is the first step into the half-worlds of the ... -
The Reckoning - Kelley Armstrong
SUMMARY: The nail-biting climax to Kelley Armstrong's bestselling Darkest Powers trilogyChloe Saunders is fifteen and would love to be normal. Unfortunately, Chloe happens to be a ... -
The Queen of Stone - Keith Baker
Product DescriptionIn the land of monsters, you'll want her by your side. Nyrielle Tam--better known by her code name, Thorn--is a Dark Lantern sent undercover to a summit in the m... -
The Quantum Universe - Brian Cox; Jeff Forshaw
The Quantum Universe brings together two authors on a brilliantly ambitious mission to show that everyone can understand the deepest questions of science. But just what is quantum ... -
The Publisher_ Henry Luce and H - Alan Brinkley
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Acclaimed historian Alan Brinkley gives us a sharply realized portrait of Henry Luce, arguably the most important publisher of the twentieth century.As the founde...