Harry KemelmanRabbi Small becomes involved in the problems of a group of students and is surprised to find they include drugs and murder.

Stephen Jay GouldRanging as far as the fox and as deep as the hedgehog (the urchin of his title), Stephen Jay Gould expands on geology, biological determinism, "cardboard Darwinism," and...

Larry Evans

Ludwig Lewisohn   'We have here, then a novelistic document of life, of the inferno of a marriage.'That word exhausts the book's horrifying and infuriating subject matter - a marriage...

Alison LathamPrinted music and writing about music involve the use of complex systems of notation and a wealth of technical terms in several languages. The Oxford Dictionary of Musical Terms...

James GleickA work of popular science in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, this 20th-anniversary edition of James Gleick’s groundbreaking bestseller Chaos introduces a whole new readership to...

Barbara W TuchmanHistory - From the distinguished American historian whose work has been acclaimed around the world, a major new book that penetrates one of the most bizarre and fascinating...

Author: Tom Clancy John Kelly, former Navy SEAL and Vietnam veteran, is still getting over the accidental death of his wife six months before, when he befriends a young woman...

Tracy KidderComputers have changed since 1981, when Tracy Kidder indelibly recorded the drama, comedy, and excitement of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market. What has changed...

Mary Pope OsborneSummary:Jack and Annie travel back in time to a desert in the Middle East at the behest of Merlin who has given them a rhyme to help on...

Clive Cussler1954. Vixen 03 is down. The plane, bound for the Pacific carrying thirty-six Doomsday bombs — canisters armed with quick-death germs of unbelievable potency — vanishes. Vixen has in...

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...