Rebecca Donovan Emma leaves Weslyn and everyone in it behind to attend Stanford University, just as she always intended. A shell of her former self, she is not the same...

Walpola Rahula This indispensable volume is a lucid and faithful account of the Buddha's teachings. "For years," says the Journal of the Buddhist Society, "the newcomer to Buddhism has lacked...

Robert Wright Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among the questions that have made The Moral Animal one of the most provocative...

Annie Proulx E. Annie Proulx's Accordion Crimes is a masterpiece of storytelling that spans a century and a continent. Proulx brings the immigrant experience in America to life through the...

Anthony F Aveni An award-winning professor takes readers on a guided tour of the stunning celestial discoveries of past cultures. Interweaving the astronomy, mythology, and anthropology of ancient peoples, Aveni...

Ronald Fuhrer Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Israel, a unique album of two hundred reproductions traces the development of painting in the country, as...

Arnold M Eisen Arnold Eisen here calls for a fundamental rethinking of the story of modern Judaism. More than simply a study of Jewish thought on customs and rituals, Rethinking...

Edgar A Falk In a new, completely revised and updated edition of his 1999 classic, public relations and marketing guru Falk shows small, medium, and large business owners how to...

Maaza Mengiste Set during Mussolini's 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, The Shadow King takes us back to the first real conflict of World War II, casting light on the women soldiers...

Anne Tyler   How does a man addicted to routine - a man who flosses his teeth before love-making - cope with the chaos of everyday life? With the loss...

Elana Ferrante “Two years before leaving home my father said to my mother that I was very ugly. The sentence was uttered under his breath, in the apartment that my...

Dr Flora Peschek-Bohmer and Gisela Schreiber Heal yourself with power of crystals and gemstones. Hundreds of vivid color photographs make it easy to identify and distinguish between different varieties. Listing...