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The Globetrotter Travel Map of South Africa caters specifically for the needs of tourists whoare new to a destination. The town plans of the major centres pinpoint key buildings and placesof interest as well as where to stay. Distance and climate charts enable travellers to plan their visitsin advance.

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Catholicism takes a path less traveled in leading us to explore the faith through stories, biographies, and images."-Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New YorkWhat is Catholicism? A 2, 000-year-old living tradition? A worldview? A way of life? A relationship? A mystery? In Catholicism Father Robert Barron examines all these questions and more, seeking to capture the body, heart and mind of the Catholic faith.Starting from the essential foundatio...

Breathtaking action and romance continue in the sequel to the epic Let the Sky Fall, from the author of the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series.Vane Weston is haunted. By the searing pull of his bond to Audra. By the lies he's told to cover for her disappearance. By the treacherous winds that slip into his mind, trying to trap him in his worst nightmares. And as his enemies grow stronger, Vane doesn't know...

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AND THE PEN ART OF THE ESSAY AWARDOver the past decade and a half, Daniel Mendelsohn's reviews for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review have earned him a reputation as "one of the greatest critics of our time" (Poets & Writers). In Waiting for the Barbarians, he brings together twenty-four of his recent essays-each one glinting with "verve and spark...

The renowned Caldecott Honoree and illustrator of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom provides a moving, intimate, and inspiring inside look at her colorful picture book career.Lois Ehlert always knew she was an artist. Her parents encouraged her from a young age by teaching her how to sew and saw wood and pound nails, and by giving her colorful art supplies. They even gave her a special spot to work that was all her own. Today, many years and many books ...

Appreciate God, enjoy and understand the act of sex with The Mystery of Sex The act of Sex is divinely ordained and it is pleasurable, but it could also be painful, rueful, and suicidal. Still, there is more to it than meets the eye. When is Sex pleasurable, painful, rueful or suicidal? Why and How? These are some of the mysteries Samuel Kunle-Oluwatobi cleverly unravels in this book. The Mystery of Sex exposes and expands every hid...

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In a kingdom controlled by cruel and manipulative women, one princess will discover the power of truth and love.Trained as a priestess in the temple of Baal, Princess Jehosheba strives to please the demanding Queen Athaliah, daughter of Jezebel. But when a mysterious letter from the dead prophet Elijah predicts doom for the royal household, Jehosheba realizes that the dark arts she practices reach far beyond the realm of earthly governments. F...

Little Bear and his dad do wonderful things together such as exploring mountains, swimming in the rain, and telling stories. But best of all, they do everything together! A warm, funny celebration of the special bond between father and child.

Outlaw Woman is the story, bold and honest, of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's extraordinary journey-political, ideological, personal-through the sixties and early seventies . . . in and out of every important feminist and revolutionary movement of that remarkable time in American history. She illuminates all those experiences with unsparing scrutiny and emerges with a fierce, admirable independence." Howard Zinn author of A People's History of the U...

FDR's centurions were my heroes and guides. Now Joe Persico has written the best account of those leaders I've ever read."-Colin L. PowellAll American presidents are commanders in chief by law. Few perform as such in practice. In Roosevelt's Centurions, distinguished historian Joseph E. Persico reveals how, during World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt seized the levers of wartime power like no president since Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War...

Some of the stories in Hawaiian tales: the girl with heavenly eyes were previously published in a limited edition titled Volcanic Jesus (Hammonasset House Books, 2008)."--Title page verso.

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In this mystery in the Sebastian St. Cyr series, the aristocratic investigator is drawn into a sordid world of greed, desperation, and the occult when the husband of his former lover is accused of murder. Regency England, September 1812: After a long night spent dealing with the tragic death of a former military comrade, a heart-sick Sebastian learns of a new calamity: Russell Yates, the dashing, one-time privateer who married Kat Boleyn a yea...

Examining all the arguments for and against religion and religious belief--across the range of reasons and motives that people have for being religious and how they stand up to scrutiny--The God Argument is a landmark book in the ongoing debate about the place of religion and secularism in our world. While A. C. Grayling is a clear critic of religion as a guiding force, unlike some of religion's opponents, he carefully considers the various ar...

This shocking exposé of the corruption and exploitation at the heart of the multibillion-dollar cocoa industry is "an astounding eye-opener that takes no prisoners" (Quill & Quire, starred review).  Bitter Chocolate is both an absorbing social history and a passionate investigation into an industry that has institutionalized abuse as it indulges our whims. Award-winning journalist Carol Off traces the fascinating evolution of chocolate from th...

In this new collection of essays that are mostly about the life part, the author writes about e-mail, parenthood, the mental scars that dodgeball can leave, and what she really should have done about a skunk before it thought it owned more of her house than she did. The shrewd insights about everyday escapades--both touching and humorous--are honest, entertaining, and about stuff that we all understand: life, kids, falling down, and the amazin...

Five hundred years ago, in an alternate Age of Exploration, the earth is flat. Alchemy is a true science, sea monsters menace the oceans, and Europe is embroiled in religious controversy. At the edge of the world, where the stars reach down close to the Earth, wonders abound. This drives the bravest explorers to the beckoning Western Ocean.Christopher Sinclair is an alchemist who cares only about one thing: quintessence, a substance he believe...