Republished in paperback with new material, the personal story of the humorist and correspondent from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart describes his 1950s suburbia childhood, the experiences that formed his political and pop culture beliefs, and his award-winning career. Reprint. 50,000 first printin[...]

"I wrote to Macmillan to suggest a new idea: a 'Nursery Edition' of Alice with pictures printed in." Lewis Carroll's diary, 15th February, 1881 The Nursery Alice, originally published by Macmillan & Co. in 1890, was the very first colour edition of Alice. It was intended, wrote Carroll, "to be read[...]

From its colourful history to its innovative yet conventional aircraft systems, this chronicle details the entire story of the Cessna Caravan, a single-engine propjet. Introduced in 1985, this utility aircraft with a gargantuan engine is a rugged, reliable, and versatile plane that is fully explored[...]

Norman Moonbloom is a loser, a drop-out who can't even make it as a deadbeat. His brother, a slumlord, hires him to collect rent in the buildings he owns in Manhattan. Making his rounds from apartment to apartment, Moonbloom confronts a wildly varied assortment of brilliantly described urban charact[...]

The defeat of South Vietnam was arguably America's worst foreign policy disaster of the 20th Century. Yet a complete understanding of the endgame--from the 27 January 1973 signing of the Paris Peace Accords to South Vietnam's surrender on 30 April 1975--has eluded us. Black April addresses that def[...]

Kyle Baker's adaptation of the madcap sequel to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" is a truly inspired. It all begins when Alice wonders what's on the other side of the mirror, and is actually able to pass on through to the other side. Along the way she encounters talking flowers and such unforgetta[...]

Within his tiny village, Ralph Azham is considered an insolent good-for-nothing layabout, a virtual pariah particularly since he was supposed to be a Chosen One. (Things didn t work out.) Yet his odd azure coloration and a few unique abilities (he can predict births and deaths) suggest that there ma[...]

Marilyn Stasio in "The New York Times" raved: "Peter May is a writer I'd follow to the ends of the earth." Among the many honors received, "The Blackhouse," the first novel in May's acclaimed Lewis trilogy, won the Barry and Crime Thriller Hound awards.
In "The Lewis Man," the second book of th[...]

When this adaptation of C. S. Lewis's classic children's story opened at the RSC Stratford in November 1998, it received rave reviews and broke box office records. Four children are evacuated from London during the Blitz. While exploring the Professor's house, they stumble across the gateway to anot[...]