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The Blank Slate - Steven Pinker
In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind, explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings.... -
The Black Nile - Dan Morrison
SUMMARY: A spectacular modern-day adventure along the Nile River from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea With news of tenuous peace in Sudan, foreign correspondent Dan Morrison... -
The Black Ice - Michael Connelly
From Publishers WeeklyLAPD detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch, protagonist of the highly praised mystery The Black Echo , returns in a procedural thriller set in and around the dr... -
The Black Company - Glen Cook
SUMMARY: Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel she is evil itself. The hardbitten men of the Black Company take the... -
The Big Thaw - Donald Harstad
Amazon.com ReviewDon't let the title of this dry suspense novel fool you. It's very cold in January in Iowa, the setting for Donald Harstad's third outing in his series featuring D... -
The Better Angels of Our Nature - Steven Pinker
Product Description The author of The New York Times bestseller The Stuff of Thought offers a controversial history of violence. Faced with t... -
The Best Travel Writing 2011 - James O'Reilly; Larry Habegger;
This book is our annual collection of the best travel writing of the year, much of it never published before, from big names in travel literature and emerging new writers. "The Bes... -
The Best Military Science Ficti - Harry Turtledove
Amazon.com ReviewIt's not merely a task that's thankless--it's impossible. How can you hope to pick out the best of anything, let alone from such a contentious category as SF (and ... -
The Best American Science and N - Freeman Dyson
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. -
The Best Alternate History Stor - Harry Turtledove
Amazon.com ReviewWhat if? Harry Turtledove, renowned alt-historian and the editor of this anthology, calls that question "those two mournful little words." But little though they ....