Munich Airport: the brilliant new novel by Greg Baxter. An American expat in London, about to enter a meeting, takes a phone call. The caller is a German policewoman. The news she has to convey is almost incomprehensible: the man's sister, Miriam, has been found dead in her Berlin flat, of starvatio[...]

There's something about a cowboy ...Hard-hearted rancher Jared Cameron was a mystery, yet bookseller Sara couldn't avoid him. Captivated by her spirit, Jared hotly pursued the plain Jane. Until their relationship thrust sweet Sara into Jared's hidden world...When rancher Hawk McKenna entered her res[...]

"I remember Sarah asking me, when I'd just begun therapy with her, what I looked for in a man. After a few moments of silent, tense deliberation I had it. 'Hair, ' I blurted. 'He has to have hair.'"
Meredith Baxter is a beloved and iconic television actress, most well-known for her enormously po[...]

Audiences around the world have been enchanted by James Cameron's visionary Avatar, with its glimpse of the Na'vi on the marvelous world of Pandora. But the movie is not entirely a fantasy; there is a scientific rationale for much of what we saw on the screen, from the possibility of travel to other[...]

The 10th edition of the classic textbook of occupational diseases.

Now available in paperback--an awe-inspiring epic that covers an astonishing 165 million years, and dramatizes the amazing sweep of humankind's evolution from the far past to the distant future.[...]

The mind-bending study of human evolution that began with Coalescent continues with a journey to the far future, a world in which a far-flung human race has perfected war as a way of life as they confront the deadly threat of an implacable alien foe. Reprint.[...]

For individuals with Down syndrome, the extent of the effect of intellectual disability depends largely on the degree of provision of appropriate support and intervention. In Educating Learners with Down Syndrome, editors Rhonda Faragher and Barbara Clarke have brought together a number of expert co[...]

The Wheel. A ring of ice and metal turning around a moon of Saturn, home to a mining colony supplying a resource-hungry Earth--a colony plagued by problems. Equipment failures and thefts are on the rise. Children tell stories of mysterious creatures glimpsed aboard the Wheel. And some of the younger[...]

View our feature on Stephen Baxter's "Weaver."The concluding volume of the acclaimed Time's Tapestry series.
In the early days of WWII, the Nazis have a secret plan, far grander than simply subjugating an enemy. And three people are caught up in a conspiracy that threatens the fabric of the tap[...]