"Simply the most powerful and moving book that has emerged on this topic." UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL

The national bestseller that tells the truth of about Vietnam from the black soldiers' perspective. An oral history unlike any other, BLOODS features twenty black men who tell the story o[...]

An illustrated guide offers a close up look at nearly one hundred of the robots featured in the six Star Wars films, novels, video games, and comics, from the simple "drone" ships to the sophisticated humanoids, detailing the development, history, and technology of each. Original. 50,000 first print[...]

A collection of insightful and uproariously funny non-fiction by the bestselling author of INFINITE JEST - one of the most acclaimed and adventurous writers of our time. A SUPPOSEDLY FUN THING...brings together Wallace's musings on a wide range of topics, from his early days as a nationally ranked t[...]

In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person', a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state; 'Adult World', which r[...]

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a sick sense of humour? What is John Updike's deal anyway? And who won the Adult Video News' Female Performer of the Year Award the same year Gwyneth Paltrow won her Oscar? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in his new book of hilarious [...]

Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of Infinite Jest, a movie said to be so dangerously entertaining its viewers become ent[...]

A weekend to change everything...
Delilah St. Germaine fell for New York's most in-demand bachelor, Simon Cartwright, the moment she began working for him. Four years later, her heart still flutters every time he saunters into the office--much to her frustration. He's so far out of her reach it'[...]

Stochastic programming is an important area of operations research dealing with decision problems under uncertainty, with probablistic models of uncertainty. This book fills the gap between the theory and methods of stochastic programming and operations research practitioners. It discusses differen[...]

One of the outstanding voices of his generation, David Foster Wallace has won a large and devoted following for the intellectual ambition and bravura style of his fiction and essays. Now he brings his considerable talents to the history of one of math's most enduring puzzles: the seemingly paradoxic[...]