Janice VanCleave How are mountains formed?What makes the air we breathe?What causes the ocean waves?Now you can learn the answers to these and other questions aboutthe earth, sea, and air...

Stephen E Ambrose Stephen E. Ambrose draws upon extensive sources, an unprecedented degree of scholarship, and numerous interviews with Eisenhower himself to offer the fullest, richest, most objective rendering yet...

Paula BennettThis internationally acclaimed study is now republished with a substantial new introduction by the author.It is a work of extraordinary finesse which offers a full-length study which integrates the...

Raymond Sokolov Examining how the "discovery" of the Americas set in motion a transformation of food cultures around the world, this look at the five-hundred-year revolution in food history explains...

David Gross The first concise, compact and popular dictionary, indispensable to the traveler in modern Israel and to anyone seeking an introduction to the ancient language of the Bible. Its...

Meir ShalevEsau is a saga of several generations in a family of bakers spanning the period from World War I and the inception of the British Mandate in Palestine through...

Emily Prager On her 40th birthday, Eve gets a tattoo of the number 500123 on her wrist, a copy of one Eve has seen on a nameless woman in a...

Michael A Stackpole The saga of the war against Dark Lord dominion over Earth continues in Evil Ascending, by New York Times Bestselling author, Michael A. Stackpole.Tycho Caine, the former...

James ThurberJames Thurber has been called "one of our great American institutions' (Stanley Walker), "a magnificent satirist (Boston Transcript), and "a Joyce in false-face" (New York Times). The New York...

Gail GodwinThe novels of Gail Godwin are contemporary classics--evocative, powerfully affecting, beautifully crafted fiction alive with endearing, unforgettable characters. Her critically acclaimed work has placed her among the ranks of...

Eleanor Sullivan (Editor) Fifty Best Mysteries is a who's who of mystery from the pages of the leading magazine in the field. Showcasing the best short fiction published in Ellery Queen...

Patricia Kaye Flanigan First published January 1, 1991