The most up-to-date and authoritative resource on the biology and evolution of solitary beesWhile social bees such as honey bees and bumble bees are familiar to most people, they comprise less than...
From the author of AN ALMOST PERFECT MOMENT comes a gem of a book set throughout Europe in the present and in the narrators own rememberings. This bittersweet novel about a woman whose search for...
Part H Is for Hawk, part The Soul of an Octopus, The Book of Eels is both a meditation on the world's most elusive fish--the eel--and a reflection on the human conditionRemarkably little is...
This is an informal collection of essays and speeches on the writers who in one way or another counted for Val ry in the shaping of his mind or in his affections and interests: Descartes, Voltaire,...
A groundbreaking guide to flower flies in North America This is the first comprehensive field guide to the flower flies (also known as hover flies) of northeastern North America. Flower flies are,...
Journey to the world of the Queen's Thief in this beautifully illustrated collection, featuring bestselling and award-winning author Megan Whalen Turner's charismatic and incorrigible...
Inspiring popular video games like Tetris while contributing to the study of combinatorial geometry and tiling theory, polyominoes have continued to spark interest ever since their inventor,...
Als die schüchterne und etwas linkische Helen Hamilton, Lucas Delos zum ersten Mal erblickt, kann sie sich zweier Gedanken nicht erwehren.1. Er ist der umwerfendste Junge, den sie jemals gesehen...
This comprehensive textbook introduces readers to the principal ideas and applications of game theory, in a style that combines rigor with accessibility. Steven Tadelis begins with a concise...
Kristen Ciccarelli's bestselling Iskari series comes to a captivating end with this final companion novel to The Last Namsara, which Tomi Adeyemi, #1 New York Times bestselling author of...
The Bean Trees is bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver's first novel, now widely regarded as a modern classic. It is the charming, engrossing tale of rural Kentucky native Taylor Greer, who...
The long-awaited fifth installment in Garth Nix's New York Times bestselling Old Kingdom series, for readers who enjoy series żeby Rae Carson, Kristin Cashore, Scott Westerfeld, and Cassandra...
Prometheus the god stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle clawed unceasingly at his liver, until Herakles freed him. For the...
What adventure novelist could have invented the life of Giuseppe Garibaldi? The revolutionary, soldier, politician, and greatest figure in the fight for Italian unification, Garibaldi (1807-1882)...
Vampire Balthazar More emerges from his centuries-long isolation to help SkyeTierney, a psychic girl who once attended Evernight Academy, when she catchesthe attention of the cruel master vampire...
Strange changes are taking place in Village. As one of the few people able to travel through the dangerous Forest, Matty must deliver the message that Village will soon be closed to outsiders. But...