SUMMARY: Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David F...
From Publishers WeeklyBestseller Kellerman serves up all the elements his fans have come to love in the 22nd entry in his Alex Delaware series (_Obsession_, etc.), including an int...
What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as co...
SUMMARY: At seventy-eight, Winnie Easton has finally found love again with Jerry Trevis, a wealthy Chicago businessman who has moved to the small, upstate town of Hartfield, New Yo...
Amazon.com ReviewHarry Turtledove pays tribute to pulp science fiction, combining a favorite plot--invasion by technologically superior aliens--with an alternate history of WWII an...
Amazon.com ReviewColonization: Down to Earth marks part two of part two of Harry Turtledove's epic alternate history in which WWII gets interrupted--and violently abridged--by a h....
The job was supposed to be dead easy—hand-deliver some legal papers to billionaire philanthropist Harry Van Dorn's extravagant yacht, get his signature and be done. But Manhattan l...
Take a strategic approach to software construction\u2014and produce superior products\u2014with this fully updated edition of Steve McConnell\u2019s critic...
Amazon.com ReviewDave Itzkoff on Cocaine's SonWhatever the circumstances of our childhoods, we all grow up to become adults with questions about our parent...
Up from the sands of Egypt rises the Great Pyramid, where Hemiunu, Pharaoh’s Grand Vizier, commands the historic building project as he orders his life—with justice, truth, and pre...