Robert Eisenberg Boychiks in the Hood is your passport to the Hasidic "underworld" -- a destination far different from popular expectations. Join Robert Eisenberg as he hangs out with an...

Ruiyan XuA dazzling debut novel about the power of love and language...Li Jing, a successful, happily married businessman, is dining at a grand hotel in Shanghai when a gas explosion...

Naomi KleinWith a new Afterword to the 2002 edition. No Logo employs journalistic savvy and personal testament to detail the insidious practices and far-reaching effects of corporate marketing—and the powerful...

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...

Joan KirkbyDrawing on letters and poems, this book examines the life and major work of Emily Dickinson with special emphasis on the poet's fascination with language, gender, the limit states...

Alice OutwaterAn environmental engineer turned ecology writer relates the history of our waterways and her own growing understanding of what needs to be done to save this essential natural resource.Water:...

StevenCaseyA disturbing share of technological disasters are caused by incompatibilities between the way things are designed and the way people actually perceive, think, and act. Structurally sound aircraft plummet to...

Kristine C HarperWeather by the Numbers: The Genesis of Modern MeteorologyThe history of the growth and professionalization of American meteorology and its transformation into a physics- and mathematics-based scientific discipline.For...

David BeatyInvestigations into the causes of aircraft accidents have for decades focused on what happened and who did it - very rarely 'Why'? It is the question 'Why' that David...

Seymour M HershThe Soviet destruction in 9/1983 of 269 people aboard Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was one of the most upsetting crises of the Cold War era. The USA...

Diane MarelliThis volume is a thorough and practical resource book for tracing up to five generations of your family history - all without leaving your home.

Samuel Pepys‘With one’s face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops . . .’A selection from Pepys’s startlingly vivid and candid diary. Originally written in...