From Publishers WeeklyIrrational behavior is a part of human nature, but as MIT professor Ariely has discovered in 20 years of researching behavioral economics, people tend to beha...
The publication in 1857 of Madame Bovary, with its vivid depictions of sex and adultery, incited a backlash of immorality charges. The novel tells the story of Emma Bovary, a docto...
From Publishers WeeklyAlthough this story spans the world of high society from Hollywood to Paris to London to Rome, essentially it is a moral tale about three hard-working girls t...
June 2009 Review “Mr. Talese’s insight will do more to help us understand the criminal than any amount of moral recrimination.” (Times Literary Supplement (London) ) “Brilliant...I...
The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A's special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at t...
SUMMARY: When Kinsey Millhone first arrives in Floral Beach, California, it’s hard for her to picture the idyllic coastal town as the setting of a brutal murder. Seventeen years ag...
SUMMARY:Years after the extinction of its indigenous races, the sea-world of Coralee is populated by human and dolphin colonists. They are ignorant of what caused the origin...
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...