How can we grasp the complex religious lives of individuals such as Peter, an ordained Protestant minister who has little attachment to any church but centers his highly committed religious practice on peace-and-justice activism? Or Hannah, a devout Jew whose rich spiritual life revolves around her [...]

What are we to make of the Latina schoolteacher who considers herself a good Catholic, rarely attends Mass, but meditates daily at her home altar (where she mixes images of the Virgin of Guadalupe with those of Frida Kahlo, and traditional votive candles with healing crystals), yet feels particularl[...]

Explaining Research is the first comprehensive communications guidebook for scientists, engineers, and physicians. Drawing on knowledge gleaned from a forty-year career in research communications, Dennis Meredith maps out how scientists can utilize sophisticated tools and techniques to disseminate t[...]

Stylized dance music and music based on dance rhythms pervade Bach's compositions. Although the music of this very special genre has long been a part of every serious musician's repertoire, little has been written about it. The original edition of this addressed works that bore the names of dances-a[...]

The Pan Am Building and the reaction to it signaled the end of an era. Begun when the modernist aesthetic and the architectural star system ruled architectural theory and practice, the completed building became a symbol of modernism's fall from grace. In The Pan Am Building and the Shattering of the[...]

The Children's Heart Surgeon Top children's surgeon Alex Attwood's not been interested in women since the blonde stranger he kissed one night long ago and never found again. Yet the new manager, Annie Talbot, intrigues him; she has a different name from his mystery woman and dyes her hair brown, but[...]

"Modern Love" and "Poems of the English Roadside" occupies a distinctive and somewhat notorious place within George Meredith's already unique body of work. "Modern Love" is now best known for the emotionally intense sonnet cycle which Meredith's own contemporaries dismissed as scandalously confessio[...]

Making a brilliant case that the 21st century, even more than the 20th, will be "The American Century, " and that America's global dominance will be associated with a revolution in weaponry and warfare as basic as the one that arose with the development of gunpowder 500 years ago, The Future of War [...]

The servant girl Aeriel must choose between destroying her vampire master for his evil deeds or saving him for the sake of his beauty and the spark of goodness she has seen in him. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Reissue.[...]

Book Two of the Darkangel Trilogy Aeriel has broken the spell on the vampiric darkangel known as Irrylath and returned him to his human form, but the White Witch continues to haunt his dreams. To save her love and the world they live in, Aeriel sets off on a quest across the Sea-of-Dust, to solve a [...]

In the streets of India, camels pull carts loaded with construction materials and monkeys race across roads, dodging cars. In China, men in Mao jackets pedal bicycles along newly built motorways, past skyscrapers sprouting like bamboo. Yet exotic India is as near as the voice answering the telephone[...]