Five years ago a brilliant American scientist, well known in high-tech military circles, suddenly disappeared without a trace off the streets of Washington, DC. Now a professor at Cambridge University is murdered, a victim of bizarre, ancient Chinese torture methods. Counterspy Alex Hawke teams wit[...]

An esteemed former CIA director dies off the coast of Maine. Another senior CIA officer is found dead of a "heart attack" in a posh Paris hotel. Counterspy Alex Hawke and his friend Ambrose Congreve think this could be more than coincidence. Hawke discovers that the victims are connected through one[...]

Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He was one of Britain s most important poets.With an equal gift for poetry and prose, he was also a prolific children s writer and has been hailed as the greatest English letterwriter since John Keats. His magnetic [...]

For new boating enthusiasts - even if they've been at it awhile - there are scores of burning questions. If one boat has a round bottom and another's is veed, what difference does it make in the way they perform? What are the advantages of a cutter rig over a sloop? Why does one sailor swear by a fu[...]

With the help of more than 25 everyday dialogues performed by native speakers, this title helps you pick up on the idioms, colloquialisms, slang and vulgarisms used by people from different walks of life. It includes features that help explain the cultural attitudes behind many expressions; and, exe[...]

Shows managers and leaders the path to creating innovative, dynamic, and highly effective teams that fulfill an organization's strategic goals. This title offers the fundamentals necessary to unlock individuals' ability and talents while adding to team synergy to accomplish any business objective.[...]

Deliver the presentation of your life - and launch your career. A nonprofit dedicated to ideas worth spreading, TED challenges the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers to give "the speech of their lives" in 18 minutes or less. The more than 14,000 talks on TED.com have been viewed over 1 bill[...]

Public Finance benefits from the combined efforts of Harvey Rosen's market-leading book and co-author Ted Gayer's research and government agency experience. This combination of experience is able to explain as clearly as possible how the tools of economics can be used to analyze government expenditu[...]

"Jupiter's Travels" - Ted Simon's astonishing 4 year motorbike journey around the world. It is the book that inspired Ewan McGregor's "Long Way Round". In the late 1970s Ted Simon set off on a Triumph and rode 63,000 miles over four years through fifty-four countries in a journey that took him aroun[...]

Walter lives near the top floor of a tall apartment building, where one night his habit of jumping on his bed leads to a tumultuous fall through floor after floor, collecting occupants all the way down. Reprint. SLJ. PW.[...]

Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath were husband and wife; they were also two of the most remarkable poets of the twentieth century. In this stunning new account of their marriage, Diane Middlebrook draws on a trove of newly available papers to craft a beautifully written portrait of Hughes as a man, as a p[...]

Now including a wonderful new photo insert chronicling Merle's life, this national bestseller explores the relationship between humans and dogs. How would dogs live if they were free? Would they stay with their human friends?Merle and Ted found each other in the Utah desert-- Merle was living wild a[...]

This stimulating and perceptive study of jazz relates the work of jazz artists such as Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Lester Young, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, and Ornette Coleman to such subjects as primitivism in the arts, neoclassicism, good and bad taste, improvisation and [...]