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The province of Kham is one of the remotest regions in in all of Tibet, and its people, the fierce horsemen who for twenty-five years waged a relentless guerilla war against the Chinese occupation, the most elusive. In Among Warriors, Pamela Logan, a recognized expert in the martial arts, gives a breathtaking account of her journey across the windswept plateaus and icy mountain passes of eastern Tibet to find them. Written with vast sympathy f...

Quaglino's is one of the world's most successful and talked about restaurants, designed to be functional, sensational and unforgettable. On average, 7000 people eat at Quaglino's each week, the menu is simple, delicious and often seasonal, featuring pristine game, sea-fresh fish and crustacea, rotisserie fire-grilled meats and heavenly pavlovas. Quaglino's: The Cookbook is the official book of the restaurant, celebrating the vision of its crea...

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In the middle of an otherwise nondescript play in a "twelve-dollar-a-seat" downtown warehouse theater, an actress is staggered by a violent slap in he face from her co-star. As she gazes into the audience with a bloody nose, immediately a connection is formed with a middle-aged man, drawn in by this unmistakably over-the-line violence, seated in the eighth row. Almost against his will, with disconcerting speed and a revelatory power that unear...

Available again in a fifth printing and a glorious new cover, the martial arts classic that reveals the secret techniques of the world's most lethal fighting traditions. Now available again to unfold its lessons of mastery for a new audience, The Way of the Warrior has become a true martial arts classic since its first publication in 1991. The combat techniques of the martial arts of India and the Far East have origins shrouded in mystery and ...

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Triomf, " one of the best novels ever written in Afrikaans, is acclaimed internationally for its black humor and insight into South Africa on the brink of revolutionary change--"exquisitely written" ("The Economist").

In this powerful collection of writing guru Goldberg's poetry and paintings, the celebrated author of "Writing Down the Bones" focuses her attention on the shifting rhythms of interior life. Full-color illustrations.

Deception on the battlefield is surely as old as warfare itself. The examples stretch from the very beginnings of recorded military history-to modern times, when technology has placed a stunning array of devices into the arsenals of military commanders. Military historians often underestimate the importance of deception in warfare. This book is the first to fully describe its value. Jon Latimer shows how simple some tricks have been, but also...

The major naval powers--Britain, America, Russia, and Japan--have all played a part in the theater of war at sea over the last one hundred years. In 1905, when this book begins, the first major engagement between ironclad fleets--the Battle of Tsu-Shima--took place in the Far East and decided the outcome of the Russo-Japanese war in Japan's favor. What follows are the highly sea battles of our century, graphically reconstructed for the reader....

With disarming intensity, humor, and great heart, Brian Shawver tells the story of Dennis Birch, a washed up thirty-four-year-old failed ball player turned minor league scout whose field of dreams has always been baseball. No longer a candidate for baseball greatness himself?if he ever was?Dennis accepts the challenge of smuggling a hot left-handed pitcher out of Cuba in the hope that promoting the greatness of another will somehow confer a sm...

The Peck family is poor--in fact, they all live in a one-room house. But Mr. Peck is a great carpenter, and he begins to build onto the house so everyone can have their very own spot, including an office, bedrooms, card room, guest rooms, and many more. until one day, they realize the house rambles on for miles. They must take the train to get to the living room. Something has to change! Full-color illustrations.

In 1648, the ancient town of Hamelin struggled to survive the most savage war Europe has ever known. In 1946, group of refuges is falling victim to a mysterious disease at a quarantine camp in Poland. Is there a connection between the two calamities?

The magnum opus of acclaimed espionage novelist Littell is a mesmerizing, dazzlingly plotted epic that tells the life and death struggle of two generations of CIA operatives during a long Cold War.

This is the compelling and superbly imagined novel of Native American heroine Sacajawea. "Stone Heart" is a gripping retelling of the story of American legend, the young Shoshoni woman who traveled with Lewis and Clark on their expedition to the West.

IN HIS sixth book of poetry, "Ecstatic in the Poison, National Book Award-finalist Andrew Hudgins offers a host of delights. Long known as a composer of innovative, clear-sighted narratives and hard-driving, truth-telling lyrics, Hudgins now digs deep into the biographical and autobiographical, the lyric and dramatic, the comic and elegiac. Drawing on events of childhood and of later years, as well as the real and imagined lives of others, Hud...

Fans of P. G. Wodehouse's comic genius are legion, and their devotion to his masterful command of the hilarity borders on an obsession. When a bratty Hollywood child star and an English aristocrat exchange souls at the dentist in "Laughing Gas, " the result is transatlantic mayhem at its funniest.

In this volume, The Legend of the Holy Drinker, which Roth wrote in the final days of his life, and which The Evening Standard deemed "a masterpiece, " joins the author's most acclaimed works of shorter fiction.