Attempts to portray the complex personality of Saint Francis, looks at his early life and influences, and discusses the rules he developed for the Franciscan order of monks[...]

Francis Crick--the quiet genius who led a revolution in biology by discovering, quite literally, the secret of life--will be bracketed with Galileo, Darwin, and Einstein as one of the greatest scientists of all time. In his fascinating biography of the scientific pioneer who uncovered the genetic co[...]

AJ Ashe may have gotten rid of her vampire stalker and her evil ex-teacher, but things are hardly back to normal. For one thing, she still has to maintain a strict look-but-don't-touch policy with Ryan, her hot ex-boyfriend-turned-stepbrother. For another, she has to learn to control her vampire sup[...]

The bestselling author of Catherine de Medici returns to sixteenth-century Europe in this evocative and entertaining biography that recreates a remarkable era of French history and brings to life a great monarch--Francis I--who turned France into a great nation.Catherine de Medici's father-in-law, K[...]

A scientific and medical revolution has crept up on us. Twenty-one million Americans are affected by 6,000 so-called rare and orphan diseases, many of which are primarily attributable to misspelled genes. And virtually all diseases have a significant hereditary component. Diabetes, heart disease, th[...]

Clark the Shark has a loose tooth and needs to visit the dentist. But he's heard that the dentist is scarier than a box of blue whales Can Clark find a way to stay cool when it comes to tooth trouble?[...]

A woman's abandoned corpse is found in a shallow grave in a posh suburb. The death hits close to home for prosecutor Helen West as she and detective Geoffrey Bailey have just moved into a new house within the gated neighborhood where the body was dumped. But tensions continue to rise when the victim[...]

Provides an understanding of numerical analysis. This title takes you step-by-step through the subject and gives you accompanying related problems with fully worked solutions.[...]

This is a market leading, traditional approach to organic chemistry. Throughout all eight editions, "Organic Chemistry" has been designed to meet the needs of the 'mainstream', two-semester, undergraduate organic chemistry course. This best-selling text gives students a solid understanding of organi[...]

Fully updated to cover the latest energy systems and technologies, this in-depth guide emphasizes a portfolio approach in which a range of energy options are employed Energy Systems Engineering Evaluation and Implementation, Second Edition presents a clear, well-organized, and technically useful loo[...]

Chaotic signals can be generated using simple circuitries, thus lowering the cost of transceivers. This book presents a detailed study of some multiple-access schemes used for chaos-based communications, and evaluates their performance. It also evaluates the effectiveness of the multiuser detection [...]

Widely regarded as the best British painter since Turner, very little is known about Francis Bacon's life. This book gives us an insight into Bacon's genius.[...]