Lifeboats occupy a particular place in people's hearts as unpaid volunteers regularly take to their boats often in extremely adverse conditions to rescue others from the sea.[...]

"Karen Fields has given us a splendid new translation of the greatest work of sociology ever written, one we will not be embarrassed to assign to our students. In addition she has written a brilliant and profound introduction. The publication of this translation is an occasion for general celebratio[...]

Three separate alien societies have claimson Cavanagh's Star. But the new arrivals -- the gethes from Earth -- now threaten thetenuous balance of a coveted world.Environmental Hazard Enforcement officer Shan Frankland agreed to lead a mission to Cavanagh's Star, knowing that 150 years would elapse b[...]

For more than 40 years, mothers have depended on the wisdomand warmth of Nursing Your Baby. Now authors Karen Pryor and her daughter Gale Pryor have revised and updated their classic guide for today's generation of women. New information includes: Up-to-date studies on health benefits for breastfed [...]

Left a fortune and a title by the father he never knew, Christian Llevanth, Viscount Westerville, uses his newfound power and his secret career as a highwayman to pursue a personal mission, until he meets Lady Elizabeth, a bookworm content among her books while caring for her aging and curmudgeonly [...]

A meticulously researched account of the works and lasting influence of the prophet Muhammad discusses his life at the end of the sixth and beginning of the seventh centuries, offering insight into his establishment of a faith that was to have a profound impact on world history. 40,000 first printin[...]

An impoverished gentlewoman with no marital prospects in sight, Beatrice Sinclair takes a job as governess to a terrified and lonely child from a noble family, only to discover that the dark rumors about the family and her growing fascination with the young duke's adult cousin, Devlen Gordon, could [...]

The ultimate guide to finding your soul mate -- for the smart, sophisticated 35+ womanAre you looking for the right man with whom to spend the rest of your life? Still waiting for "the one" and fed up with dates that go nowhere? Janis Spindel, called a "matchmaker extraordinaire" by the New York Pos[...]

As the worlds orbiting Cavanagh's Star ignite in turmoil, threatened by civil war and genocide, the inhabitants of a distant planet known as Earth are confronting their own day of reckoning as the powerful alien Eqbas plot to remake Earth in their own image, at the expense of its human population. O[...]

Exactly as the title describes: a new manifesto of-sorts, covering the entire, broad-ranging spectrum of the animal rights movement, from wearing leather and eating meat to animal testing and the use of animals in the entertainment industry. Smart and well-argued, it's animal rights for a new genera[...]

Life is close to perfect for Emil Larsson, a self-satisfied bureaucrat in the Office of Customs and Excise in 1791 Stockholm. He is a true man of the Town--a drinker, card player, and contented bachelor--until one evening when Mrs. Sofia Sparrow, a fortune-teller and proprietor of an exclusive gamin[...]