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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 Buddhist Writing 2010 - Melvin McLeod
Review“Each year I greet with great pleasure—and a divine delight—another new edition of The Best Buddhist Writing. And 2010, seventh in the series, is no exception. If an antholo.... -
The Best American Short Stories - Geraldine Brooks
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... -
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 .... -
The Belly of Paris - Emile Zola; Mark Kurlansky
Part of Emile Zola's multigenerational Rougon-Macquart saga,The Belly of Parisis the story of Florent Quenu, a wrongly accused man who escapes imprisonment on Devil's Island. Retur... -
The Bell at Sealey Head - Patricia A. McKillip
From Publishers WeeklyAn unseen bell haunts a seaside town and a magical mansion in this delicate fable from World Fantasy Award winner McKillip (_Od Magic_). Inside the baffling A... -
The Battle of Midway - Craig L. Symonds
Review"[W]holly satisfying . . . a lucid, intensely researched, mildly revisionist account of a significant moment in American military history." --Kirkus Reviews, starred re... -
The Battle of Britain - Richard Overy
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... -
The Battle for Christmas - Stephen Nissenbaum
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... -
The Battery - Henry Schlesinger
In the tradition of Mark Kurlansky's Cod and David Bodanis's E=MC2, The Battery is the first popular history of the technology that harnessed electricity and powered the greatest s...