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One Of The World' S Foremost Military Historians Offers A Sweeping View Of The Place Of Warfare In Civilization. Probing The Meanings, Motivations, And Meth...

Set In Tokyo During The Witching Hours Between Midnight And Dawn, The Novel Features Two Sisters--eri, A Fashion Model Slumbering Her Way Into Oblivion, And...

Before Charles Taylor Became The Infamous Warlord President Of Liberia, He Lived As A Student In Boston, Where He Fathered A Son. When Taylor Returned To Li...

Daylight Come -- The Harvest -- The Most Girl Part Of You -- Rapture Of The Deep -- Du Jour -- Murder -- The Day I Had Everything -- To Those Of You Who Mis...

From One Of Our Most Astute Observers Of Human Nature, A Far-reaching Exploration Of Japanese History And Culture And A Moving Meditation On Impermanence, M...

“She walks down the street with a swing in her step and a lift to her head. She radiates allure as if followed by a personal spotlight. She may be tall o...

His World as Composed by Mingus. Autobiography.Categories: Arts & Photography Music Musical GenresJazz

anne Rice’s Second Book In Her Hugely Ambitious And Courageous Life Of Christ Begins During His Last Winter Before His Baptism In The Jordan And Concludes...

A revelatory, indispensable collection of poems from Jane Hirshfield that centers on beauty, time, and the full embrace of an existence that time cannot he...

An unprecedented publishing event: to mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has for the first time opened its archives t...

A ... Personal Detective Story, An Uncovering Of Secret Pasts, And A Book That Explores The Creation And Development Of World-changing Legal Concepts That C...

From the best-selling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sacks's broad range of interests--from his passion for fe...

Combines three fast-moving spy thrillers that feature the smooth, cynical British agent Bernard Samson--"Berlin Game," "Mexico Set," and "London Match"--in ...

A Smart, Sexy, Laugh-out-loud Romantic Comedy About Ex-boyfriends, Imperfect Parents, Friends With Kids, And A Man Who Disappears The Moment He Says I Love ...

In This Urgent, Authoritative Book, Bill Gates Sets Out A Wide-ranging, Practical - And Accessible - Plan For How The World Can Get To Zero Greenhouse Gas E...

Here Are Fifty Favorite Recipes Created By Rosie Daley, Oprah's Cook - Dishes That Oprah Loves Because They Have Helped Her Lose Weight And Feel Good. The R...

Expanded And Updated For Graduates Just Entering The Workforce, A Latest Edition Of A Best-selling Guide To Finding And Getting The Most Out Of A First Job ...

Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in gover...

Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in gover...

Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in gover...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us a sumptuously illustrated landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the conquistadors to the elect...

From The New York Times Best-selling Author Of Reconstructing Amelia, A Gripping, Moving Novel About A Daughter Racing To Uncover The Truth About Her Mother...

Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, also winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, c...

In Anne Rice's extraordinary novel, the Vampire Lestat--outsides, canny monster, hero-wanderer--is at last offered the chance to be redeemed. He is brought...

National Best Seller, Japan's Most Celebrated Geisha, Confessions Novel.Categories: Literature & FictionLiterary

An Extensive Use Of Color Photographs Makes This A Fine Guide For Identifying Insects. Spiders, Bugs, Moths, Butterflies, Beetles, Bees, Flies, Dragonflies,...

Introduced in 1977 and completely revised in 1994, these bestselling photographic field guides have become the birding bibles of more than four million en...

The perfect companion volume for Hale-Bopp watchers, this guide explores the fabulous mysteries above, from planets in our solar system to the constellatio...

A portable, comprehensive field guide--brimming with concise descriptions and stunning color photographs, and designed to fit into your back pocket--from t...

These easy-to-use guides are divided into three parts: introductory essays; color plates and species accounts; and appendices - all in a convenient size!Cat...

more Than Twenty-five Years After The Appearance Of His First selected Poems, We At Last Have A Magnificent New Gathering Of Mark Strand’s Work, One That ...

From Andre Agassi, One Of The Most Beloved Athletes In History And One Of The Most Gifted Men Ever To Step Onto A Tennis Court, A Beautiful, Haunting Autobi...

After The Sudden Death Of Her Husband, Sheryl Sandberg Felt Certain That She And Her Children Would Never Feel Pure Joy Again. I Was In 'the Void, She Write...

Draws On The Life, Teachings, And Example Of Moses To Present A Series Of Principles Designed To Help Cope With The Problems Of Everyday Life, Offering Guid...

After Serving Six Months In Prison For An Implausible Crime, Joel King, A Defrocked Baptist Minister, Finds Life As An Ex-con Unbearably Complicated. Martin...

Essays Examine Rock Performers And Bands Including David Bowie, Lou Reed, Chicago, The Clash, James Taylor, And Iggy Pop. By Lester Bangs ; Edited By Greil ...

In This Revolutionary Book, Dr. Andrew Weil, One Of The Most Authoritative, Articulate, And Important Voices In The Field Of Health And Healing, Makes Clear...

Rice's new novel continues the epic occult saga that began with The Witching Hour and Lasher. Taltos takes readers back through the centuries to a civilizat...

This new edition of The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth has been extensively revised to reflect scientific advances and cultural trends. Here, ca...

The most literate and word-loving of our great lyricists, Ira Gershwin described his writing as "simple, colloquial, rhymed conversational lines." Yet thes...

From the acclaimed author of The Pencil and To Engineer Is Human, a timely and eye-opening exploration of the ways in which science and engineering must wo...

The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larsson’s internationally best-selling trilogyLisbeth Salander—the heart of Larsson’s two previous novels—lies ...

“With Henning Mankell having written his last Wallander novel and Stieg Larsson no longer with us, I have had to make the decision on whom to confer the t...

The great ballerina looks at happenings in the world of dance from the royal court of Louis XIV to the triumphs of Nureyev, illustrating her historical surv...

By Kahlil Gibran. A Borzoi Book.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences PhilosophyReligious

Eleven Powerful Pieces First Published In The New Yorker Recall The Path Terror In The Middle East Has Taken From A More Peaceful Time In 1990s Israel To Th...

For Years, Theater Director Bryan Doerries Has Led An Innovative Public Health Project That Produces Ancient Tragedies For Current And Returned Soldiers, Ad...

The vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced - and h...