Henry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us a sumptuously illustrated landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the conquistadors to the election of Barack Obama. Informed by the latest, sometimes provocative scholarship and including more than seven hundred images-ancient maps, fine a[...]

After serving six presidents in both the CIA and the National Security Council, Robert M. Gates believed that he had left Washington politics behind for good but when he received the call from the White House in 2006 to help a nation mired in two wars, he answered what he felt was the call of duty. [...]

"City Gates" was first published in Arabic in 1981, and in English in 1993. It is a further exploration of the themes of exile, dislocation, and identity. Elias Khoury's early works show him finding the distinctive voice that explodes in his epic "Gate of the Sun."A stranger arrives at the gates of [...]

Forced to kill his beloved father in order to defeat an evil sorceress, Prince Tristan of the kingdom of Eutracia finds himself a wanted man in a lawless land and is challenged to battle insidious coven monsters. Reprint.[...]

The past haunts two determined people looking for answers in Paula Graves's next installment of The Gates.
For twenty years, Cain Dennison has been haunted by the death of a young, pregnant girl found murdered at Crybaby Falls. Determined to finally discover the truth and lay the past to rest, C[...]

He is Thomas Edison and Henry Ford rolled into one -- except that William Henry Gates III maybe smarter and more successful than either. He is America's richest man, and on the corporate landscape, he may well be the most feared. In less than a generation, Bill Gates has done nothing less than chang[...]

An ambitious, cinematic historical novel chronicles the battle of three hundred Spartan warriors against a huge force of Persian soldiers in 480 B.C. against the background of life in ancient Sparta and its extraordinary culture. 50,000 first printing. Lit Guild & Military Bk Club.[...]

But as science commentator Margaret Wertheim argues in this "marvelously provocative" (Kirkus Reviews) book, cyberspace has in recent years become a repository for immense spiritual yearning. Wertheim explores the mapping of spiritual desire onto digitized space and suggests that the modem today has[...]

A masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane remains an innovative literary work. The introduction to this revised edition provides groundbreaking biographical information on Jean Toomer. Revised and expanded explanatory annotations and illustrative materials are included, along with the 1923 forew[...]

From a unique new talent comes a fast-paced debut, introducing a heroine whose dark visions bring to light secrets that will heal or destroy those around her . . . When New York journalist and recently bereaved mother Charlotte Charlie Cates begins to experience vivid dreams about children she s sur[...]

Around the world, schools are being asked to offer new services to students, families and communities in order to overcome the effects of disadvantage. This book critically examines the role of full service and extended schools.[...]

Ace Books is proud to present this classic novel of time travel in a beautiful new trade edition. It took the fantasy world by storm a decade ago, and now fans can savor this Philip K. Dick Award-winner for the first time all over again. Only the dazzling imagination of Tim Powers could have assembl[...]

Bill Gates, born in Seattle, Washington, in 1955, is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. In this "Who Was...? "biography, children will learn of Gates' childhood passion for computer technology, which led him to revolutionize personal computers. Through the success of[...]