Best known for his Hugo Award-winning classic A Case of Conscience, Blish was one of the first serious SF writers to involve themselves with tie-in novels, writing eleven Star Trek adaptations as well as the first original adult Star Trek novel, Spock Must Die. This omnibus contains three of his lon[...]
James Freedman, the fifteenth president of Dartmouth College, began life in a struggling middle-class Jewish family in a provincial industrial New Hampshire town. By the time of his death from cancer in March 2006, he was one of the most celebrated educational leaders of his generation, perhaps of t[...]
When Bill James published his original "Historical Baseball Abstract" in 1985, he produced an immediate classic, hailed by the "Chicago Tribune" as the "holy book of baseball." Now, baseball's beloved "Sultan of Stats" "(The Boston Globe)" is back with a fully revised and updated edition for the new[...]
The famed medium and author of Talking to Heaven presents an inspirational collection of structured meditations and reflections designed to help readers follow their own personal journeys of self-awareness and psychic discovery. Original. 17,500 first printing.[...]
Published in his centenary year, The Collected Poems of James Laughlin encompasses in one majestic volume all of the poetry (with the exception of his verse memoirs, Byways) written by the publisher-poet. Witty, technically brilliant, slyly satiric and heartbreakingly poignant about the vagaries of [...]
An ABC board book for young children features striking full-color photographs that capture the beauty and power of the animal world while teaching the alphabet through simple labeling and text.[...]
Considered one of the finest actors of his generation, James Franco is also a multitalented writer and visual artist. Drawing from his experience in film and television work, Franco has produced a visually exciting and thought-provoking body of video works, multimedia installations, and large-scale [...]
The publication of The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy is a literary event that marks the first time all of James Purdy's short stories--fifty-six in number, including seven drawn from his unpublished archives--have been collected in a single volume. As prolific as he was unclassifiable, James[...]
The complete up-to-date statistics on every major league player, team and manager through the 2012 season. The Bill James Handbook is first, best, most complete annual baseball reference guide available. Full of exclusive stats, this edition includes the first player projections for 2013 plus career[...]
The first and most comprehensive review of the 2013 MLB season, with complete team and players lifetime statistics and initial projections for 2014 from baseball guru Bill James and his team of analysts.[...]
The first out each year and still the best analysis of all the players, teams, managers, and parks in the Major Leagues, with lifetime stats through the 2014 season for every player on a major-league team that year.[...]
Gathers James essays about fiction, literary criticism, and the works of Alcott, Emerson, Hawthorne, Howells, Stowe, Arnold, Browning, Byron, Trollope, and Stevenson[...]
This 1931 book comprises extracts from the 1883 autobiography of James Nasmyth, a Scottish engineer who invented the steam hammer.[...]
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Children have always found a delightful friend in James Herriot. His award-winning stories for young readers bring the farmyard world of Herriot's Yorkshire to vibrant life. Featuring a host of adorable animals and colorful townsfolk, each of the stories is narrated by the country vet himself, with [...]
"When I decided to be a vet, I knew that I wanted to be a dog doctor, so I could spend all my time with dogs." - from the Introduction
James Herriot would go on to become so much more than a dog doctor. But no animal was dearer to his heart, and no animal provided him with more heartwarming and [...]
When you enter the world of "James Herriot's Animal Stories," you'll share his wonder and humor, his adventures and misadventures as he contends with pet owners and landowners; rough-spoken farmers and soft-spoken gentry; orphaned lambs, litters of piglets and puppies, cattle and draught horses; and[...]