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This smart and frank collection distills the trials and triumphs of being a woman. Authors Kindersley and Vine's essays cover topics ranging from feminism to face cream, motherhood to money, and politics to perfection. Full-color illustrations throughout.

In the middle of her life, Nan decides to leave her husband at home and begin an impromptu trek across the country, carrying with her a turquoise leather journal she intends to fill. The Pull of the Moon is a novel about a woman coming to terms with issues of importance to all women. In her journal, Nan addresses the thorniness-and the allure-of marriage, the sweet ties to children, and the gifts and lessons that come from random encounters wi...

Have you ever had everything you love snatched from your hands in the blink of an eye? Do you know what it's like to watch helplessly as those you cherish burn to a crisp? Have you ever heard a mournful cry for street justice and then realized that the only person left to heed the call was you? Pearl Baines is a straight Harlem stunna. She and her twin sister, Diamond, are chased by some of the most notorious ballers in New York City. But whil...

Award-winning author Barbara Cleverly returns with this spellbinding new mystery featuring aspiring archaeologist Laetitia Talbot. In Athens in 1928, Letty begins a perilous race to unearth a plot steeped in betrayal, seething with retribution, and about to explode in a wave of lethal violence.In the open-air theatre of the dark god Dionysos, Letty watches a performance of an ancient Greek tragedy. But the revenge that is exacted onstage, the ...

From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Acts of Mercy" comes a novel about a man who's sworn off women and a woman haunted by her past. When fate offers them a second chance, will they take it? Original.

How God Changes Your Brain" is a highly practical, easy-to-read guide on the interface between spirituality and neuroscience, filled with useful information that can make your brain and your life better.--Daniel G. Amen, M.D.

New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts provides a potent mix of small-town secrets, scandalous romance, and down-home Southern atmosphere as a young woman searching for some bayou R&R, finds herself entangled in a serial killer's wicked web. Burned out and still reeling from a love affair gone bad, world-class violinist Caroline Waverly goes to her grandparents' home in Innocence, Mississippi, for some much-needed rest and relaxation. ...

Biologist and poet Sandra Steingraber shoulders the legacy of Rachel Carson, producing a work about people and land, cancer and the environment, that is as accessible and as invaluable as "Silent Spring". "An important, deeply felt book".--"Chicago Tribune".

In the tradition of "Stiff" and "The Undertaking" Tom Jokinen's year as an apprentice undertaker offers an enlightening, lively, and surprisingly funny trip through the business of death

With the same commitment to objectivity that has characterized his approach, historian Morris turns his attention to the complicated and acrimonious relationship that exists between Palestine and Israel.

In this book--the first volume in his groundbreaking trilogy on the emergence of western political thought--Francis Oakley explores the roots of secular political thinking by examining the political ideology and institutions of Hellenistic and late Roman antiquity and of the early European middle ages. By challenging the popular belief that the ancient Greek and Roman worlds provided the origins of our inherently secular politics, Oakley revis...

Drawing from the works of Dante, Catherine of Siena, Boccaccio, Aquinas, and Cavalcanti and other literary, philosophic, and scientific texts, Heather Webb studies medieval notions of the heart to explore the "lost circulations" of an era when individual lives and bodies were defined by their extensions into the world rather than as self-perpetuating, self-limited entities.

The comprehensive monograph on one of the most celebrated bodies of design in recent decades. Inspired and distilled from Brazil's street and carnival cultures, Humberto and Fernando Campana have consistently produced gleefully "imperfect" designs that challenge the modernist hierarchy of form and function and the relationship of art and utility. Key figures in the "design art" movement, the Campanas' work has been highly sought after by colle...

From a striking new voice in storytelling comes a debut collection of literary jewels, strung over the Los Angeles skyline.

From the creator of one of the most popular personal blogs on the Web comes an irreverent and captivating parenting memoir covering the joys and indignities of pregnancy, childbirth, and all the unexpected emotions that come with having a baby. 16-page full-color insert.

Interviews about golf and life by golf legend Amy Alcott with her many friends--including Bill Clinton, Jack Nicholson, and Annika Sorenstam.

The author of "Hillbilly Gothic" chronicles her adventures in knitting the holy grail of all sweaters.

With contributions from John N. Duvall, Kristin Fujie, Caroline Garnier, Jamie Harker, Catherine Gunther Kodat, Peter Lurie, Deborah E. McDowell, Gary Richards, Michael Wainwright, and Michael Zeitlin William Faulkner grew up and began his writing career during a time of great cultural upheaval, especially in the realm of sexuality, where every normative notion of identity and relationship was being re-examined. Not only does Faulkner explore...

Der Band behandelt im ersten Teil Funktionen, Struktur und Arbeitsweise von MATLAB kurz und übersichtlich, so dass auch Einsteiger MATLAB problemlos einsetzen können. Teil 2 bietet eine kompakte Einführung in Grundgebiete und wichtige Spezialgebiete der Ingenieurmathematik wie z. B. Differentialgleichungen, Optimierung, Transformationen, Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung und Statistik. Aufgrund ausführlicher Beispielrechnungen mit MATLAB eignet sich...

A stunning novel of the Holocaust from Newbery Medalist, Jerry SpinelliHe's a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Filthy son of Abraham.He's a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He's a boy who steals food for himself, and the other orphans. He's a boy who believes in bread, and mothers, and angels.He's a boy who wants to be a Nazi, with tall, shiny jackboots of his own-until the day that suddenly makes him change his mind.And when the train...