Woodward provides the most intimate and sweeping portrait yet of the young president as commander in chief, drawing on internal memos, classified documents, meeting notes and hundreds of hours of...
The #1 New York Times Bestseller"A lovely novel about the search for family that also happens to illuminate a fascinating and forgotten chapter of America's history. Beautiful."--Ann...
Georg Simmel is one of the most original German thinkers of the twentieth century and is considered a founding architect of the modern discipline of sociology. Ranging over fundamental questions of...
Gabriel Allon-art restorer, spy, and assassin-returns in a spellbinding new thriller from the No.1 New York Times-bestselling master of intrigue and suspense.
A stunning and groundbreaking investigation into the death of one of the great rock icons of our times -- revealing new evidence that points to a terrible conclusion.On Friday, April 8, 1994, a...
Romulo Gallegos is best known for being Venezuela's first democratically elected president. But in his native land he is equally famous as a writer responsible for one of Venezuela's...
Perhaps the most influential anthropologist of his generation, Claude L vi-Strauss left a profound mark on the development of twentieth-century thought, equal to that of phenomenology and...
One of the most visited places in the world, Rome attracts millions of tourists each year to walk its storied streets and see famous sites like the Colosseum, St. Peter's Basilica, and the...
With both of her parents gone, Patience Debbington is accustomed to managing her own affairs, and those of her teenage brother Gerrard. To her love is dangerous, men uninteresting and faithless....
The last ten years have done quantifiable damage to Americans' sense of security, both physical and economic. From the ravages of Hurricane Katrina to the collapse of the housing market, the...
The Bell Jar is a classic of American literature, with over two million copies sold in this country. This extraordinary work bronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful,...
The world's most famous travelling reporter solves the mystery of the Black Island. Wrongly accused of a theft, Tintin is led to set out with Snowy on an adventure to investigate a gang of...
Thanksgiving, das große amerikanische Familienfest, hält immer wieder Überraschungen bereit, schöne und weniger angenehme. Janet Evanovichs rasante romantische Komödie demonstriert dies in allen...
A splendid send-up of government, the postal system, and everything that lies in between in this newest entry in Terry Pratchett's internationally bestselling Discworld series. Convicted con...
Georg Simmel addressed diverse topics across his essayistic writings, which influenced scholars in aesthetics, epistemology, and sociology. This title features Presented alongside these seminal...
Since its publication in 1989, "The Human Career" has proved to be an indispensable tool in teaching human origins. This substantially revised third edition retains Richard G. Klein's...
The world's leading psychiatric authority on demonic possession delves into the hidden world of exorcisms and his own transformation from cynic to believer over the course of his...
In this five-volume opus--now available in its entirety in paperback--Pelikan traces the development of Christian doctrine from the first century to the twentieth. "Pelikan's "The...
The line that separated Eastern Christendom from Western on the medieval map is similar to the iron curtain of recent times. Linguistic barriers, political divisions, and liturgical differences...
First published in France in 1937, this important essay marked a turning point in Sartre's philosophical development. Before writing it, he had been closely allied with phenomenologists such as...
A magnificent history of doctrine.--New York Review of Books In this volume Jaroslav Pelikan continues the splendid work he has done thus far in his projected five-volume history of the development...