The people who pushed west were mostly ordinary folks, the guts of the young United States, tough, ambitious, hardworking, and anxious to leave the world better for their kids than it had been for them. Those who did not come of that hardy stock did not last. With them came the trouble-makers, to ev[...]

The Hand and the Chaste are in a race for Elektra, body and soul, and Natasha Romanova, the Black Widow, almost follows her rival into the grave while Daredevil's trapped in a coffin of his own design! Can his sarcastic sensei Stick rescue him from sensory overload, just in time for hand-to-Hand com[...]

A lavishly illustrated collection of the 1001 best golf holes from around the world, organized by challenge level, for golfers of every level. This latest book in the hugely popular 1001 series showcases the world's best golf holes--a must-have volume for anyone who loves the game, and the perfect g[...]

Implementing an Inpatient Smoking Cessation Program serves as a step-by-step manual for implementing a cost-effective tobacco cessation program for hospitalized patients. Based on the Staying Free program, which has evidenced among the highest cessation rates reported in the scientific literature, t[...]

Colonial America stretched from Quebec to Buenos Aires and from the Atlantic littoral to the Pacific coast. Although European settlers laid claim to territories they called New Spain, New England, and New France, the reality of living in those spaces had little to do with European kingdoms. Instead,[...]

"Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory, " edited by Marleen S. Barr, is the first combined science fiction critical anthology and short story collection to focus upon black women via written and visual texts. The volume creates a dialogue with existing[...]

The journeys of Luke Skywalker's boyhood friends led each to be heroes in their own right: one a pilot for the Rebellion, the other a soldier of the Empire.[...]