America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered In the Obamacrats)David GelernterAmerica-Lite (where we all live) is just like America, only turned into an amusement park or a video...

N Elizabeth SchlatterThis concise volume is the place to start for anyone considering a career in museums. Museum professional and author N. Elizabeth Schlatter outlines the nature of the profession...

Laura HillenbrandSeabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler,...

Lynne Truss   In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss, gravely concerned about our current grammatical state, boldly defends proper punctuation. She proclaims, in her delightfully urbane, witty,...

Jonathan StroudIt is 950 B.C.E., and King Solomon rules Jerusalem with a steely hand; a hand on which gleams a magic ring of immense and unforgiving power. Solomon has just...

Iain LawrenceThere was once a village bred by evil. On the barren coast of Cornwall, England, lived a community who prayed for shipwrecks, a community who lured storm-tossed ships to...

Bob PritchettShould you take the time to visit customers and suppliers in person? Absolutely.Who makes the best accountant? A pessimist.What do you do with a good employee who is a...

ER FrankAcclaimed author E.R. Frank writes provocative fiction. America, a foulmouthed, yet endearing 16-year-old, attempts suicide and is placed in the care of psychiatrists at Ridgeway mental hospital.There he learns...

Charles Dickens   Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens’s story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family triggers his professional and personal downfall, showcases the author’s gift for...

Michael Crichton The twin jet plane en route to Denver from Hong Kong is merely a green radar blip half an hour off the California coast when the call comes...

Monica SelesFor those of you tuned into this past season's Dancing with the Stars, it's hard to believe that spectacularly fit former tennis champion Monica Seles struggled with binge-eating and...

Philip PullmanShe had asked: What is he? A friend or an enemy?The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer.When she saw the answer, she relaxed at once.Lyra finds herself in a...