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This complete popular history of alcohol from the Egyptians to the twenty-first century is already considered in England to be a classic in the field. Prohibition, Alcoholics Anonymous, and a range of other alcohol-related topics, both contemporary and historical, are covered here. The abundance of little-known facts and colorful legends about alcohol makes for reading that is as memorable as it is highly entertaining.

Living in the city of Kathmandu in the Kingdom of Nepal are dozens of American and British expatriates who are in love with the Himalayas. George Fergusson is one of them--he works as a trek guide for "Take You Higher, Ltd., " leading groups of tourists into the back country and occasionally assisting on serious climbs. George "Freds" Fredericks is another--a tall, easy-going American who converted to Buddhism while in college. He visited Nepa...

Mama and I climbed aboard. I waved to Papa until he was only a tiny speck in the distance. The train turned the curve, and he was gone." The powerful autobiographical account of a young girls' struggle as a Jewish refugee in England from 1939-1945.

In this searing and moving essay, James Baldwin explores the Atlanta child murders that took place over a period of twenty-two months in 1979 and 1980.

Graceful and gigantic...a fascinating tour through the subtlety, integrity, and brute honesty of Todorov's thought."--"The New York Times Book Review"Todorov invigorates the debate over morality with rigor and grace, Aristotelian fineness, fluid prose, and his own virtues of compassion, humility, and realism."--David Greenberg, " The Washington Post"In a world that continues to devalue human life, Todorov leaves us with a sense of hope that mo...

Kirth Gersen carries in his pocket a slip of paper with a list of five names written upon it - the names of five Demon Princes. The Demon Princes are a race of beings who disguise themselves as humans and delight in power and destruction. However, to Kirth they are merely murderers who killed his family and destroyed his home planet - and who deserve to die for those misdeeds. Three have already fallen at Kirth's hands, but there are two more ...

A gay ghost, a talking dog, and a street kid who thinks he's an elf-child join our narrator, Bud, and the other characters from Buddies in this final volume of Mordden's trilogy on gay life in the big city.

For over two hundred years in African-American churches throughout the country, gospel and spiritual music have offered solace and have been a source of celebration, leaving a mark not only on the Christian world, but on popular music as well. Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit contains the lyrics and music of 101 of the most widely known and cherished of these pieces, ranging from heartrending spirituals from the times of slavery to songs of unity ...

Extravagaria" marks an important stage in Neruda's progress as a poet. The book was written just after he had returned to Chile after many wanderings and moved to his beloved Isla Negra on the Pacific coast. These sixty-eight poems thus denote a resting point, a rediscovery of sea and land, and an "autumnal period" (as the poet himself called it). In this book, Neruda developed a lyric poetry decidedly more personal than his earlier work.

Cape Cod's Great Beach, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket are romantic stops on Schneider's chronological human and natural history. This is a lucid and compelling collage of seaside ecology, Indians and colonists, religion and revolution, shipwrecks and hurricanes, whalers and vengeful sperm whales, glorious clipper ships and today's beautiful but threatened beaches. Schneider's eye for story and detail illuminates both history and landscape. ...

In this new parallel novel to "Ender's Game, " Card tells the story of another child in the Battle School--a boy named Bean, whose past was a fight just to survive and whose mind was leagues beyond anyone else's.

The author of the bestselling classic Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway now provides readers with the tools and the concepts they need to attain a greater peace of mind and embrace the beauty around and within them. "With love, candor, and clarity, Susan Jeffers inspires us to fully live every moment of our lives".--Barbara De Angelis, author of Real Moments.

Some of fantasy's strongest voices contribute to this Bordertown anthology, where a once-normal American city is transformed by magical catastrophe to a place where the faerie and human worlds meet.

The Encyclopedia of Hell is a comprehensive survey of the underworld, drawing information from cultures around the globe and eras throughout history. Organized in a simple-to-use alphabetic format, entries cover representations of the dark realm of the dead in mythology, religion, works of art, opera, literature, theater, music, film, and television. Sources include African legends, Native American stories, Asian folktales, and other more obsc...

Using two cross-country trips on Amtrak as her narrative vehicles, British writer Jenny Diski connects the humming rails, taking her into the heart of America with the track-like scars leading back to her own past. As in the highly acclaimed Skating to Antarctica, Diski has created a seamless and seemingly effortless amalgam of reflections and revelation in a unique combination of travelogue and memoir.

A small and admiral memoir that records the experiences of a young Dutch student who spent a year and a half as a novice monk in a Japanese Zen Buddhist monastery.

Two early novels in Modesitt's "Ecolitan Matter" series--"The Ecolitan Operation" and "The Ecologic Secession", which have been long out-of-print--are now available in one volume that completes a major story arc.

First published in 1989, the first novel from the author of Gospel. Gil Freeman dreams of leaving the Midwest, going to New York, and becoming a famous actor. "Full of sharp, often acid, character sketches, memorable scenes, alternately touching and uproariously funny, that linger in the memory".--Publishers Weekly.

Interwoven with recollections of whalers and famous explorers, "Eye of the Albatross" probes the unmistakable environmental impact of the encounters between man and marine life. Safina's portrait results in an eye-opening look at the health of our oceans. 15 illustrations, 13 maps.

America may have had its fill of psychos for the last forty years, but none of them has inspired so many books and films (Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) as Wisconsin's cannibalistic handyman, Ed Gein. None of them has been used as the ultimate ogre in countless chilren's stories and off-color jokes, and none of them has been found guilty of as many unspeakable atrocities as Ed Gein. This is his story. This is hi...