Amazon.com ReviewConsciousness is notoriously difficult to explain. On one hand, there are facts about conscious experience--the way clarinets sound, the way lemonade tastes--that ...
From the best-selling author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, an illuminating book about fear—and what we can do to overcome it.An inescapable component of our lives, fear...
SUMMARY: Descending into darkness, about to be overwhelmed by evil, those people still free are powerless to stop the coming dawn of a savage new world, while Richard faces the gui...
From Publishers WeeklyBatchelor's Buddhism Without Beliefs (1997) described a secular approach to the Eastern philosophy stripped of doctrines such as karma and rebirth; how a you....
From Publishers WeeklyIn her 67th novel (following May's The House) bestselling author Steel (more than 530 million copies sold) fashions a plot around a single event: an invitati....
Product DescriptionA child cries out . . . in torment--in terror. From out of the past, from outof the mists, a terrible vengeance is born. From the PublisherA century ago,...
SUMMARY:On an impulse, schoolteacher Jim Ironheart flies to Portland, Oregon without understanding why. There he saves a boy from being killed by a drunk driver and is ...
Product DescriptionThe author of the breakout hit Here Comes Everybody reveals how new technology is changing us from consumers to collaborators, unleashing a torrent of c...
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...
Product DescriptionMrs. Pamela Evans lives a lonely new widowhood outside of Baltimore, with only a house full of ticking clocks for company. Then she hires eccentric Elizabeth Abb...