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Days before a massive exhibition at the New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being murdered. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human. The museum's directors decide to go ahead with the bash in spite of the murders. Now museum researcher Margo Green must find out who or what is doing the killing. Does she have time to stop a massacre?

Camugu, recently returned to Johannesburg and disillusioned by the new democracy, moves to the remote Eastern Cape. There, two groups are at odds over plans to build a vast casino and tourist resort, and Camugu is soon drawn into their heritage and into a bizarre love triangle as well.

In "Freedom, " Osho outlines three stages of freedom. The first is "freedom from, " which is a freedom that comes from breaking out of what he calls the "psychological slavery" imposed by outside forces such as parents, society, or religion. The next stage is "freedom for, " a positive freedom that comes from embracing and creating something---a fulfilling relationship, for example, or an artistic or humanitarian vision. And lastly there is "j...

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth."--Genesis 1:24-26 In this crucial passage from the Old Testament, God grants mankind power over animals. But with this privilege comes the grave responsibility to respect life, to treat animals w...

Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism. One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, "On Photography" first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as "a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs." It begins with the famous "In Plato's Cave"essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with a fascinating and far-reaching "Brief Anthology of Quotations.

Maturity, according to Osho, is not to grow old but to grow up. To grow old is to move in the horizontal dimension, accumulating more and more knowledge, more and more experience. But to grow up is to take a step into the vertical dimension, where maturity is measured not in years but in serf-sufficiency, wisdom and integrity. Maturity is the joyous and peaceful flowering of the human spirit.

This account of a tennis match played by Arthur Ashe against Clark Graebner at Forest Hills in 1968 begins with the ball rising into the air for the initial serve and ends with the final point. McPhee provides a brilliant, stroke-by-stroke description while examining the backgrounds and attitudes which have molded the players' games.

This Mass Market Boxed Set, is the Second Boxed Set of "The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind: The Box Set includes: Temple of the Winds, 0-812-55148-6Soul of the Fire, 0-812-55149-4Faith of the Fallen, 0-812-57639-X

When we look at a painting hanging on an art gallery wall, we see only what the artist has chosen to disclose--the finished work of art. What remains mysterious is the process of creation itself--the making of the work of art. Everyone who has looked at paintings has wondered about this, and numerous efforts have been made to discover and depict the creative method of important artists. "A Giacometti Portrait "is a picture of one of the centur...

From a four-time Hugo Award-winning author comes this "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year--a space saga awesome in conception, and a riveting novel of conflict, love, loss, and survival. Reissue.

Two novels combined in this omnibus ("Calde of the Long Sun" and "Exodus from the Long Sun") comprise the second half of Gene Wolfe's long novel, "The Book of the Long Sun. Publishers Weekly" calls it "One of the major SF series of the decade".

The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classic is now available in an author's definitive edition. The alien Buggers threaten humanity with extinction, and Earth's ultimate savior may be one small boy. Andrew "Ender" Wiggins thinks he is only playing computer games, but he is really commanding Earth's last great fleet.

Taking an unsentimental approach to one of the most dramatic changes in a woman's life, British novelist Cusk ("The Country Life") dissects the process of new motherhood from a psychological and emotional perspective.

Astronaut Michael Collins adds a revised chapter to the extraordinary story of his training and participation in the Gemini 10 and Apollo 11 flights.

As Osho points out in the foreward to this book, historically, the creative person has been all but forced to rebel against the society. But nowadays, the situation has dramatically changed. In today's world, the ability to respond creatively to new challenges is demanded of everybody, from corporate CEOs to "soccer moms." Those whose toolbox for dealing with life includes only what they have learned in the past from their parents and their te...

Sixteen-year-old Gwen lives with her extended--and eccentric--family in London. The time-traveling gene that runs through the female half of her family supposedly has skipped over her. So it comes as a surprise when Gwen starts taking sudden leaps into the past.

Shinigami-sama summons the strongest weapons from around the world to contain the rogue kishin and the spread of his madness. As these powerful weapons strategize for what will be the most difficult battle of their lives, the students of DWMA try to get back to their normal lives as best they can. 208 pp.

A funny collection of 100 X-Ray images of objects inserted and ingested in places they shouldn't be.

In this powerful novel, a teenage heroine delivers a blow to the hypocritical world of high school.

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of Churchill's lifelong involvement with the empire, from the early stages of his childhood to his emergence as a self-made hero. Instead of locating him on a left/right spectrum, Toye presents Churchill as a human being, a man whose imperialist outlook brought both acclaim and dread.