Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Geraldine Brooks, this year's collection will be another "sure bet for gripping, emotional challenging reading" (San Diego Union-Tr...
SUMMARY: The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boundaries between fiction and reality and helped to...
Review“Michael Shermer has long been one of our most committed champions of scientific thinking in the face of popular delusion. In The Believing Brain, he has written a wonderful....
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The secret to glowing skin, brighter eyes, whiter teeth, shinier hair, and stronger nails** According to nationally known nutritionist Lisa Drayer, it’s not wha...
From School Library JournalGrade 9–11—Connelly Sternin, 16, moves through her New York City high school on cruise control. She is an average student who doesn't get into trouble, d...
SUMMARY: 'No individual British victory after Trafalgar was more decisive in challenging the course of a major war than was the Battle of Britain ...In his carefully argued, clearl...
SUMMARY: In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, the middle class exodus was in high gear, and bankruptcy loomed. Many people credit New York’s “mast...
Amazon.com ReviewThis scholarly analysis of our modern celebration of Christmas pulls together a thoroughly convincing case for the widely accepted notion that it is a 19th-century...
Issued in London in 1917, the Balfour Declaration was one of the key documents of the twentieth century. It committed Britain to supporting the establishment in Palestine of “a Nat...
Product DescriptionThe world’s most elite counterterrorism unit has just taken its game to an entirely new level. And not a moment too soon . . .From behind the rows of razor wire,...