With more than 100 photos and detailed captions showing how to create safe and simple rock-climbing anchoring systems, this take-along guide is a useful volume for climbers.[...]

BOB Books are back, now with a bright, unique box display and colored illustrations throughout that make learning to read even more fun
Bob Books Set 5: Long Vowels
Bob Books Set 5 introduces the important new skills of long vowels and the magical silent E. Maturing readers continue to love[...]

It is the middle of the twenty-first century.After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption, humanity is spreading farther into the Long Earth. Society, on a battered Datum Earth and beyond, continues to evolve.And new challenges emerge.Now an elderly and cantankerous AI, L[...]

How has it happened that the United States and the Soviet Union have managed to get through more than four decades of Cold War confrontation without going to war with one another? Historian John Lewis Gaddis suggests answer to this and other vital questions about post-war diplomacy in this new book.[...]

A spiritual guide provides guidelines on meditation and exercise, encouraging writers to combat the self-consciousness that inhibits free expression and offering advice on how to overcome suppressed feelings that contribute to writer's block. Original.[...]

The memoirs of the woman rock climber who was the first person to accomplish a "free ascent" of the Nose on Yosemite's El Capitan describe her early days as a Hollywood stunt artist, friendships with other climbers, near-fatal eighty-foot fall, and personal strategies. Reprint. 15,000 first printing[...]

Why using natural selection to design robots is revolutionizing our understanding of life? Robots have come a long way since the days of futuristic metallic humanoid dreams. In "Darwin's Devices", biorobotics expert John Long takes readers on a tour of his own work and thinking - showing how evoluti[...]

Fly-fishing's finest scribe, John Gierach, takes us from a nameless stream on a nameless ranch in Montana to a secret pool off a secret creek where he caught a catfish as a five-year-old, to a brook full of rattlesnakes and a private pond where the trout are all as long as your leg. As Gierach says,[...]

Revised and updated to reflect the modern standards of equipment, technique and training methods, this guide includes sections on face climbing; crack climbing; ropes, anchors and belays; getting off the rock; sport climbing; and much more. It is the essential how-to book for rock climbers everywher[...]

Few people may realize that Long Island is still home to American Indians, the region's original inhabitants. One of the oldest reservations in the United States--the Poospatuck Reservation--is located in Suffolk County, the densely populated eastern extreme of the greater New York area. The Unkecha[...]

A challenging new vision of the future, "The Long Descent" traces the decline and fall of an industrial society fatally out of balance with planetary limits and shows how personal change and local action can shape a better tomorrow.[...]