The hit series returns to charm and inspire another generation of baby-sitters The first three classic BSC books are back, along with a brand-new prequel, The Summer Before.
It all began with a great idea ... and the inspiring original story of the Baby-sitters Club is back Kristy Thomas's bri[...]

Jimmy Gownley's graphic novel memoir about the "dumb" idea that changed his life forever
What if the dumbest idea ever turned your life upside down?
At thirteen, Jimmy was popular, at the top of his class, and the leading scorer on his basketball team. But all that changed when chicken pox [...]

This graphic novel adapted by Raina Telgemeier, the #1 "New York Times" bestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of "Smile," is now available in full color
Kristy, Mary Anne, Claudia, and Stacey are best friends and founding members of The Baby-sitters Club. Whatever comes up -- crank[...]

Best friends Jess and Lily visit Friendship Forest, where animals can talk and magic exists
Jess and Lily can't wait to attend the Rushy River boat race in Friendship Forest But when Grizelda sends her sand dragon to turn the Prickleback hedgehog family to stone, it's up to the girls and Emily[...]

Roman towns and their history are generally regarded as being the preserve of the archaeologist or the economic historian. This title touches on such disparate themes as psychology and urban architecture.[...]

Jimmy Gownley's graphic novel memoir about the "dumb" idea that changed his life forever
What if the dumbest idea ever turned your life upside down?
At thirteen, Jimmy was popular, at the top of his class, and the leading scorer on his basketball team. But all that changed when chicken pox [...]

Focuses on discriminating different meanings of culture, as a way of introducing the debates around it. This book offers a critique of postmodern 'culturalism', arguing instead for a more complex relation between Culture and Nature, and trying to retrieve the importance of such concepts as human nat[...]

When President Barack Obama visited Cairo in 2009 to deliver an address to Muslims worldwide, he followed in the footsteps of countless politicians who have taken the existence of a unified global Muslim community for granted. But as Cemil Aydin explains in this provocative history, it is a misconce[...]

Pakistan, founded less than a decade after a homeland for India s Muslims was proposed, is both the embodiment of national ambitions fulfilled and, in the eyes of many observers, a failed state. "Muslim Zion" cuts to the core of the geopolitical paradoxes entangling Pakistan to argue that India s ri[...]

In this groundbreaking and very accessible book, Daniel C. Dennett, the acclaimed author of Consciousness Explained, demonstrates the power of the theory of natural selection and shows how Darwin's great idea transforms and illuminates our traditional view of our place in the universe. Following Dar[...]

Religious intolerance, so terrible and deadly in its recent manifestations, is nothing new. In fact, until after the eighteenth century, Christianity was perhaps the most intolerant of all the great world religions. "How Christian Europe and the West" went from this extreme to their present universa[...]