Acclaimed author David Hewson returns with this mesmerizing new thriller featuring Nic Costa and the detectives of Rome’s Questura. This time Costa must solve a case with roots buried deep in one of the ancient city’s most infamous epi...

Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and nece...

If you need to know it, it’s in this book! Cracking the New GRE, 2012 Edition has been completely revised and updated for the changes coming to the GRE in August 2011. With all questions, answers, and explanations linked together f...

An award-winning journalist combines on-the-ground reportage with incisive analysis to reveal the disturbing connection between climate change and increased social and political violence.

If it's on the verbal or analytical writing sections of the GRE, it's in this book! Verbal Workout for the GRE, 4th Edition is completely updated for the August 2011 changes to the GRE exam. Comprehensive and engaging, it incl...

Synopsis: Gaia is the gigantic organism that has evolved on Planet Earth. It is the mountains, plains, forests, grasslands, deserts and rivers. It is the climate and ocean currents. It hosts the creatures that have played their part in operations ...

A comprehensive, clearly structured and readable overview of the subject, "Introduction to Environmental Impact Assesment "quickly established itself as the leading introduction to EIA. The second edition introduced and developed many issues of gr...

Richard Hughes's celebrated short novel is a masterpiece of concentrated narrative. Its dreamlike action begins among the decayed plantation houses and overwhelming natural abundance of late nineteenth-century Jamai...

When you’re new to the workforce, ambition and talent aren’t enough—getting on the fast track to success requires much more. If you’re a recent college graduate or new hire, Effective Immediately shows you how to excel...

Tom Hanks introduces the "remarkable"( Publishers Weekly ) story of two inseparable friends and soldiers portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers . William "Wild Bill" Guarnere and Edward "Babe" Heffron were among the first paratrooper...