SUMMARY: An extraordinary fiction debut, Think of a Number is an exquisitely plotted novel of suspense that grows relentlessly darker and more frightening as its pace accelerates, ...
Bruce Eckel's Thinking in Java - JavaWorld Editor's Choice Award for Best Book, 2001 JavaWorld Reader's Choice Award for Best Book, 2000 Software Development Magazine Productivity ...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: A remarkable series of lectures on the art of creating effective nonfiction by one of the 20th century's most profound writers and thinkers-now available for the ...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Many will greet this taut, clear-eyed memoir of grief as a long-awaited return to the terrain of Didion's venerated, increasingly rare persona...
Dorothy thinks she is lost forever when a terrifying tornado crashes through Kansas and whisks her and her dog, Toto, far away to the magical land of Oz. To get home Dorothy must f...
Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching thinks her Granny Aching - a wise shepherd - might have been a witch, but now Granny Aching is dead and it's up to Tiffany to work it all out when stra...
The Barnes & Noble ReviewAnd That's Why the Teenager Is a Vamp Luxurious this is the best word I can think of to describe Anne Rice's hot-blooded fiction. The Vampire Armand foll...
The Super Summary of World History is a very compact history of the world emphasizing western culture and political processes. The Super Summary is for the thinking person. This ne...
Review"In the years of my reading Dante, after the first overwhelming, reverberating spell of the Inferno, which I think never leaves one afterward, it was the Purgatorio...
SUMMARY: "It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born." First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes t...