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The original landmark novel of the slave revolt against the Romans in 73BC, led by the gladiator Spartacus. Heralded as one of the great historical novels of the twentieth century--and an inspiration to generations of people who have fought against oppression and exploitation--SPARTACUS is a masterpiece of vivid storytelling from one of Scotland's finest writers.

At the forefront of this American revolution in eating since 1969 has been health counselor and teacher Denny Waxman, founder of the Strengthening Health Institute and author of The Great Life Diet, which distills the wisdom of his thirty-five years of experience into a clear guide to a better, healthier, longer life. Essentially, Waxman's method weds a diet of whole grains, beans, vegetables, and soups to a lifestyle that nourishes the mind a...

The Dark Streets takes private investigator Jack Liffey to LA's glitzy, exotic Koreatown, where a young film student, Soon-Lin Kim, has apparently gone missing. Early in his search for her, Jack learns that Soon-Lin has been tangling with a giant Korean conglomerate. Again, as in all the Liffey mysteries, the superbly-crafted action that makes John Shannon one of the most exciting detective-fiction writers on the California scene envelops Jac...

A bull's eye performance."-Publishers Weekly "Unique and thought-provoking."-The Historian A noted historian and master storyteller explores the costly, often calamitous -effects of victories gained by brilliant military commanders in fourteen historical -battles-from Hannibal at Cannae to Bunker Hill, Sarajevo, Pearl Harbor, and the Tet Offensive in Vietnam.

Pirie brings his rich familiarity with both the Doyle biography and the Sherlock Holmes canon to a mystifying Victorian tale of vengeance and villainy. The howling man on the heath, a gothic asylum, the walking dead, the legendary witch of Dunwich--perils lurk in every turn of the page throughout this ingenious pastiche.

They've been friends since their college days-Shotsie, Bess, and Claire-and the twenty years since have gotten them husbands, children, mortgages, assorted body patches, one handgun, a hysterectomy, and lots of neurosis. Still, at least once a year they again have each other. And Ian. This year, in this affecting, sly, bittersweet novel, they are gathering along with their husbands at Dune Ridge on the coast of North Carolina near the close o...

The novels of William Faulkner continue to fascinate and inspire. This compendium of critical thought-including Robert Penn Warren, Graham Greene, Lionel Trilling, Malcolm Cowley, and George Orwell, among others-will aid fans and students alike in understanding the great author and giant of American literature. More than simply a renowned Mississippi writer, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist is acclaimed throughout the world as one of the twent...

The first biography of Kipling's younger years: his Indian childhood, abandonment in England, and coming of age as a writer.

From a gladiator to a renegade Conquistador to England's greatest warrior-king-six men who changed the course of history.

In America's heartland, Sam seeks justice for a black college student who's found dead in a car trunk at the drive-in, while thousands gather in the nation's capital for the March on Washington with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

Private eye Stanley Hastings doesn't want for idiosyncrasies, as fans of this long-running "unconventional" and "very funny" (says the New York Times) mystery series know. For instance, he doesn't carry a gun. So he seems a particularly improbable choice, among all of New York City's private investigators, for the cold-eyed Martin Kessler.Not that Kessler requires firepower. He's got a gun of his own-an automatic with a long, ugly silencer-alt...

One family's extraordinary history from their heroic feats on the battlefields of WWI to the rise of Hitler and the tragic culmination at Treblinka.

The best book ever written on the Russian civil war. A first-rate work of scholarly synthesis." Robert McNeal

Their friendship is born an early-September day in 1947, in a freshman dorm, when the brassily Yankee and free-spirited Libba Charles first meets her roommate, a near perfect flower of modest young Southern womanhood in the person of Frances Simpson, and for forty-six years it flourishes. It ends with a promise. On her deathbed Frances extracts it from her three daughters--the utterly capable homemaker Alice, the recalcitrant Allegra, a recove...

A literary celebration of Samuel Beckett's influence on postmodernism.

A swashbuckling re-examination of a forgotten moment in British history by a richly talented young historian."--Daily Telegraph

In the heat of the moment, it is difficult to know what to ask our doctor so that we can reach the best possible solution or treatment. How can a doctor know to go through a list of risks, treatments and alternatives if the patient does not ask? This list of ten open-ended questions can help every type of patient get some control over the decisions that affect their help. Covering everything from tests to drugs to lifestyle issues, any or all ...

Some crimes cry for vengeance, like the one that washes Rachel Wilson up on a beach, her head bald, her body mutilated. It's a cry that Agnes Lynn, a hooker gone straight and Rachel's long- time friend, can't ignore. Steely and resourceful, with a determination impervious to fear, Agnes aims to settle scores with pimps and porn kings-and unwittingly, blindly, sets herself in the path of the formidable mob boss Viktor Timkin. What she doesn't ...

Q: Why, despite all the shortages, was the toilet paper in East Germany always two-ply? A: Because they had to send a copy of everything they did to Moscow.

Being kind in a genuine and positive way truly is an art, and it is an art that can be learned. Stefan Einhorn believes it is the single most important factor in achieving success and satisfaction in life-being a good person can make you happier, richer, more successful, and fulfilled. But being kind is not always easy to put into practice, although it inevitably plays a part in our everyday actions. In all of life's dilemmas we calculate, whe...