SUMMARY: When Zaki finds a bracelet and an ancient skeleton, little does he know that he is also stumbling across a mystery that goes back generations - a mystery that involves rut...
In 1831 Tocqueville set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him 9 months and cover 7,000 miles. The result was DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA: a su...
From Publishers WeeklyIn this volume, Puleo, a contributor to American History magazine, sets out to determine whether the collapse of a molasses tank that sent a tidal wave of 2.3...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A new translation of one of the most notorious novels of all time** Published just years before the French Revolution, Laclos's great novel of moral and emotion...
From Publishers WeeklyThis closing volume of Friedman's Coldfire trilogy (When True Night Falls; Black Sun Rising) ably concludes one of the better fantasy series in recent memory....
Product DescriptionThe second book in Ed Greenwood's first Forgotten Realms trilogy. Author Ed Greenwood continued the story of Shandril of Highmoon in this second volume of th...
Review"Quite simply, this volume should be on everybody's bookshelf... Bergman and Berman-Barrett have created a guided tour of the criminal justice system -- intended both for the...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the bestselling author of *Oracle Bones* and *River Town* comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy, on the human side of the economic revolution in ...
From BooklistAkashic’s Noir series, which began in 2004, turns to Denmark. Edited by Danish book critic and editor Michaëlis, this volume features stories by authors whose names ma...
SUMMARY: Thomas Paine's book "Common Sense" was the written word that inflamed and drove the people of the colonies to the cause of the American Revolution. It was a clear and pass...