The author of the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Weapons and Hope edits a collection of the finest science and nature writing. Original. 30,000 first printing.
From Publishers WeeklyThe presidential election of 2000 is coming down to the wire in this disappointing thriller, when Democratic candidate (and attorney general) Allison Leahy bl...
SUMMARY: 8,000 years ago Europe was a very different place. England was linked to Holland by a massive swathe of land. Where the North Sea is now lay the landmass of Northland. And...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The "wonderful first novel about life, love, and lobster fishing" (*USA Today*) from the #1 bestselling writer** In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert's *Stern Men* debute...
From Publishers WeeklyRetired NASA engineer Hickam became a minor mass market celebrity in 1994 after a last-minute 2,000-word filler for Air & Space magazine (he spent three hours...
Amazon.com ReviewPenzler Pick, February 2000: Just as Robert B. Parker and Dennis Lehane have made Boston their own and Los Angeles has been the distinct province of a lin...
In 2000, Martin Bojowald, then a twenty-seven-year-old post-doc at Pennsylvania State University, used a relatively new theory called loop quantum gravity—a cunning combination of ...
SUMMARY: Most of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci, we know because of his notebooks. Some 6,000 sheets of notes and drawings survive, perhaps one-fifth of what he actually prod...
SUMMARY: -- Jerry Capeci's The Complete Idiot's Guide "RM" to the Mafia has already netted close to 12,000 copies since its publication in December 2001, making it one of Alpha's s...
Amazon.com ReviewTom Ferry on *Life! By Design*Writing this book is the culmination of 20,000 hours of coaching clients on choosing to have a life--By Design. It is...