Mark Peterson makes an extraordinary claim in this fascinating book focused around the life and thought of Galileo: it was the mathematics of Renaissance arts, not Renaissance sciences, that became modern science. Galileo's Muse argues that painters, poets, musicians, and architects brought about a [...]

An airplane crashes, killing eighty-seven passengers. A cancer patient receives a fatal dose of radiation from a machine designed to be foolproof. The ATMs at a New York bank debit customers twice their actual withdrawals, resulting in a loss of millions of dollars. In every case, the culprit was a [...]

Imagine a world where families are allowed only two children. Illegal third children -- shadow children -- must live in hiding. If they are discovered, there is only one punishment: Death.
Among the Hidden
An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
An ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Rea[...]

Government regulations limit families to two children each, so Luke, an illegal third-born, must live his life in secret, hidden in his family's farmhouse. Then he joins Jen, another "shadow child," for a chance to come out into the light.[...]

As a Shadow Child, the illegal third born in a futuristic society, Matthias attempts to make an escape from his family before the Population Police arrive to take him away, yet when he saves the life of a police officer and is given a chance to join their squad under a secret identity, Matthias find[...]

In this conclusion to the best-selling series, Luke Garner, while working undercover at Population Police headquarters, unintentionally causes a revolt that sets the third-born children free and causes him to become a hero, but Luke soon discovers that things aren't always what they seem. Reprint.[...]

After suddenly being taken to live in a new town with an aunt she never met, Bethany Cole looks into her family's dark past, discovers that she is a clone of an older sister who died years ago, and is now being hunted by a dangerous person whose mission is yet unknown. Reprint.[...]

This book provides a first synthetic view of an emerging area of ecology and biogeography, linking individual- and population-level processes to geographic distributions and biodiversity patterns. Problems in evolutionary ecology, macroecology, and biogeography are illuminated by this integrative vi[...]

Shoji Hamada, along with Bernard Leach, was one of the key figures in the development of studio pottery in the 20th century. His influence both in England and the US as well as in his native Japan cannot be underestimated. The Japanese government designated him a Living National Treasure" in 1955 an[...]

Covering in-the-ring action as well as behind-the-scenes heroes, Pro Wrestlers books reveal the lives of today's biggest stars. Readers encounter the ringside action, exploring each wrestler's signature moves and persona. They also witness the wrestler's real life, from childhood and early sports in[...]

From the author of The Original Road Kill Cookbook, which has been in print for over twenty-five years and has sold over 200,000 copies. This title is targeted towards the same audience as Jeff Foxworthy, whose 2009 AMP day-to-day calendar You Might Be a Redneck was the tenth best-selling 2009 calen[...]