From Publishers WeeklyWhile writing a biography of Graham Hayward, the upright and highly regarded former president of the United States, journalist Simon Keller, the books rather ...
Synopsis:The first edition of The Practice of System and Network Administration introduced a generation of system and network administrators to a modern IT methodol...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: In October of 1142, a local landlord gives the Potter's Field to the local clergy. The monks begin to plow it, and the blades turn up the long tresses of a young ...
SUMMARY: This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth. A timeless novel as urgently compelling as "War Day" or "Alas, Babylon, " David Brin's "The Postman...
Product DescriptionA fully revised collection of Poe's work The first new edition of this landmark anthology since 1945 presents a more complicated, perverse, and c...
The Poor Mouth relates the story of one Bonaparte O'Coonassa, born in a cabin in a fictitious village called Corkadoragha in western Ireland equally renowned for its beauty and the...
Product DescriptionThe first Doctor, Ian, Barbara, and Vicki find themselves at a crucial moment in British history: London, November 1605. When they uncover a plot to blow up the ...
SUMMARY:In The Player of Games, Iain M. Banks presents a distant future that could almost be called the end of history. Humanity has filled the galaxy, and thanks to ultra-h...
SUMMARY: When Australian Julie Reagan discovers a book written about wild Malaysia in the 1970s, she decides to find out more about the author - her great aunt. Why did her grandmo...
SUMMARY: When Herbert Terrell falls off a mountain during a vacation in Czechoslovakia, accidental death is the verdict. Then his step-daughter Tossa receives a note suggesting Ter...