Lewis Glinert When do you say mazal tov ? What is the English equivalent to the Talmudic expression Alya ve-kots ba ("a sheep's tail with a thorn in it")? What...

Raymond Smullyan A series of logic problems and puzzles relating important mathematical and logical concepts, includes paradoxes, metapuzzles, number exercises, and a mathematical novel. October 27, 1992 by Random House...

Alfie Kohn No Contest stands as the definitive critique of competition. Contrary to accepted wisdom, competition is not basic to human nature; it poisons our relationships and holds us back...

Stephen Fry   Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic.Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too...

Pauline CockrillThe Little Book of Bear Care looks at neglected teddies in need of repair, and shows all the materials required to restore and rejuvenate them to their former glory.Combining...

**In delicate condition**   Laurens van der Post   The distinguished explorer and writer recounts his rediscovery of the Bushmen, outcast survivors from Stone Age Africa. Faced with constant attack...

Gerard Benson First published January 1, 1992

Houghton Mifflin A guide to the spelling, syllabication, and pronunciation of more than sixty thousand terms commonly used in the medical and health fields. January 1, 1992 by Houghton Mifflin...

Nikolai Gogol Gogol's stories are admired for their skillful mingling of fantasy and reality, quiet good humor and use of mundane details — as Gogol put it — "to extract...

Marcus Pfister The Rainbow Fish is an international bestseller and a modern classic. Eye-catching foilstamping, glittering on every page, offers instant child-appeal, but it is the universal message at the heart...

Michael McCollum Tory Bronson--a software engineer aboard the first Earth starship--becomes the intercessory between a shipload of aliens fleeing a dying sun and her own world, which is reluctant to...

Thomas Pakenham In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10...