Mary Ellen SnodgrassCliffs Notes on Roman Classics is the reference book you need to understand the values and ideas inherent in Latin literature and Roman civilization. It is a must...

Susan Llewellyn and Katie Aafjes-van Doom Clinical psychology makes a significant contribution to mental health care across the world. The essence of the discipline is the creative application of the...

Joseph Heller The sequel to Catch-22, the classic that came to symbolize the absurdity of war, takes on politics, the greed of business, and the decline of society and brings...

Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer The forty-seven stories in this collection, selected by Singer himself out of nearly one hundred and fifty, range from the publication of his now-classic first collection,...

Thomas Mann Famous for his novels, Thomas Mann is more accessible through the shorter fictions which span his entire career. The most famous of these stories is one of the...

Robin CookThe blockbuster bestseller that kickstarted a new genre--the medical thriller--is now available in trade paperback for the first time.They called it "minor surgery," but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman and...

Carol Ann RinzlerThis text helps identify over 100 diseases and medical conditions, and gives some simple guidelines on how to reduce risk. It is arranged alphabetically, and provides information on...

Yoram Kaniuk Part Jewish and part Arab, Yosef Rosenzweig/Shehara is torn by the conflict between two peoples, and he comes to realize now much political events shape one's life, regardless...

Thomas De QuinceyIn this remarkable autobiography, Thomas De Quincey hauntingly describes the surreal visions & hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings he took thru London--& the nightmares, despair & paranoia to which he...

Thomas MannFelix Krull was a young and good-looking lad who created for himself a personality to charm and deceive the world of wealth and to allow him to pursue a...

Benjamin C BradleeBen Bradlee first came to know John Kennedy well when they were Washington neighbors in 1958. They remained good friends and off-the-record confidants until President Kennedy's death. They...

Arthur Ransome Someone is wrecking wild birds’ nesting places on the lake and selling eggs to out-of-town collectors. It’s the Coot Club Bird Protection Society to the rescue!Dick and Dorothea...