Amazon.com ReviewThis is the book that made "innumeracy" a household word, at least in some households. Paulos admits that "at least part of the motivation for any book is anger, a...
Product DescriptionFor two years, Beth Williams has run from the past, and the beast that dwells inside her. She is haunted by memories of being kidnapped and the savage attack tha...
Product DescriptionHow to Succeed in Evil is the story of Edwin Windsor, Evil Efficiency Consultant. He tries to help supervillains be more villainous. Or at least more profitable ...
According to The New York Times, Noam Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive.” But he isn’t easy to read . . . or at least he wasn’t until these books came alon...
SUMMARY:For centuries, the civilized people of the eastern and western realms have dismissed the nomadic inhabitants of the vast middle land as barbarians, but now these nom...
SUMMARY: Lord Shigeru, heir to the Otori clan, faces hostility from the shrewdly ambitious Iida family in the East and base treachery at home from his uncles. His noble education a...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: "I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new...
SUMMARY: Three angels are sent down to bring good to the world: Gabriel, the warrior; Ivy, the healer; and Bethany, a teenage girl who is the least experienced of the trio. But she...
Nobody knows Great Britain like Lonely Planet. Whether you're after prehistoric sites in Orkney, mountain climbing in Snowdonia, the tastiest fish and chips in East Anglia, or a qu...
From Publishers WeeklyPearson, who stars in HBO's The Wire, was born ill and underweight from her mother's drug habits, and later worked for a crack dealer in East Baltimore. At a....