The Lives of Things collects Jose Saramago's early experiments with the short story form, attesting to the young novelist's imaginative power and incomparable skill in elaborating the most extravagant fantasies. Combining bitter satire, outrageous parody and Kafkaesque hallucinations, these stories [...]

Two friends are kidnapped by several masked men, who, to judge by their manners and their accent are men of the best society. One of the friends is a doctor, and the masked men say that they need him to assist a noblewoman, who is about to give birth. When they reach the house, they find no such nob[...]

Christian life does not arise spontaneously in us. The truth of the Gospel cannot always be arrived at through a process of reasoning. We need to meditate long on the words of Jesus. It is only through familiarity and association with the Gospels that we begin slowly to learn to live like him. This [...]

Life in Paris is charged with elegance- both in its private homes and in the variety of architectural styles seen on each boulevard. A original favorite in the Flammarion "Living In" series, this volume opens doors into gardens and homes of the City of Lights and also contains an extensive visitor's[...]

"If in The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Jose Saramago presented us with his vision of the New Testament, in Cain he comes back to the first books of the Bible. An unorthodox itinerary takes him to decadent cities and stables, palaces of tyrants and battlefields, led by the hand of the central c[...]

A behind-the-scenes exposé of the illicit activities of major league baseball players, told from the perspective of a MVP Award-winning athlete whose career was marked by steroid use, discusses how increasingly higher salaries enabled he and his fellow athletes to engage in increasingly destructive[...]

Elisa Robledo, a young physics professor has a terrible secret. A secret she has been hiding for ten years; one which torments her every day. While an advanced physics graduate student at one of the most prestigious universities in Europe, Elisa was invited to join a select research team working on [...]

Princeton, New Jersey, 1951: As a CIA operative watches from the shadows, two old men--Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion and world-renowned scientist Albert Einstein--enter Einstein's home to speak privately about nuclear weapons and the existence of God.Present Day Cairo, Egypt: Over lunch in[...]

The classic step-by-step guide to learning how to perform the diagnostic neurologic examination -- now in full color "This is an excellent book that will be very useful for learning the neurologic examination. It is easy to read, well illustrated, and interactive. The art and science of neurology is[...]

Watching a rented video, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is identical to him in every physical detail. He embarks on a secret quest to find his double and sets in motion a train of events that he cannot control. Saramago's novel explores the nature of individuali[...]

In an unnamed country on the first day of the new year, people stop dying. Amid the general public, there is great celebration: flags are hung out on balconies and people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity - eternal life. Death is on strike. Soon, though, the residen[...]