This vibrant series covers over 170 destinations worldwide, from cosmopolitan urban delights to sun-kissed beach idylls. Bursting with insightful and easily accessible information, these guides are full of practical tips on how to make the most of a city break or longer holiday.[...]

Elegant, suggestive, and clarifying, Lewis Thomas's profoundly humane vision explores the world around us and examines the complex interdependence of all things. Extending beyond the usual limitations of biological science and into a vast and wondrous world of hidden relationships, this provocative [...]

From the 1920s when he watched his father, a general practitioner who made housecalls and wrote his prescriptions in Latin, to his days in medical school and beyond, Lewis Thomas saw medicine evolve from an art into a sophisticated science. "The Youngest Science" is Dr. Thomas's account of his life [...]

From the bestselling author of the definitive book on D-Day comes the definitive book on the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time.
In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a [...]

Lewis Henry Morgan of Rochester New York lawyer and pioneering anthropologist was the leading American contributor of his generation to the social sciences. Among the classic works whose conjunction in the 1860s gave modern anthropology its shape Morgana's massive and technical Systems of Consanguin[...]

Introduces students to the theory and practice of managerial and leadership functions, and provides important guidelines for working within agencies. This title addresses topics that are germane to management and administration, including evidence-based and empirically supported practice, challenges[...]

"Ben-Hur" is the remarkable saga of a man framed for attempting to murder a Roman official, and condemned to death as a galley slave. Epic in scope, it recreates Imperial Rome from a thrilling sea battle, to the famous chariot race, to the agony of Crucifixion.[...]

This unique collection of essays and documents brings to life the major topics in American western and frontier history from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.[...]