A rare meeting of literary genius: P. D. James, long among the most admired mystery writers of our time, draws the characters of Jane Austen’s beloved novel Pride and Prejudice into a tale of murder and emotional mayhem.   It is 1803, six years since E...

Nanotechnology promises to transform the materials of everyday life, leading to smaller and more powerful computers, more durable plastics and fabrics, cheap and effective water purification systems, more efficient solar panels and storage batteries, and medical devi...

Christoph Knill's book analyses the impact of European policies on national administrations. Under which conditions can we expect domestic change, particularly the convergence of administrative styles and structures? How can we explain national patterns of administra...

In the United States many important programs are paid from trust funds. At a time when major social insurance funds are facing insolvency, this book provides the first comprehensive study of this significant yet little-studied feature of the American welfare state. E...

Leadership and Innovation in Subnational Government takes stock of promising innovations that began to appear in local government across the region of Latin America and the Caribbean during the 1990s. The purpose of this work-in contrast to many reports which documen...

In 1994, Driven to Distraction sparked a revolution in our understanding of attention deficit disorder. Widely recognized as the classic in the field, the book has sold more than a million copies. Now a second revolution is under way in the approach to ADD, and the n...

Blowback, 9/11, and Cover-ups, is a detailed and documented description of behind-the-scene misconduct that caused the conditions to exist that enabled terrorists to hijack four airliners on September 11, 2001. The author, Rodney Stich, held a key air safety position...

Bringing fresh wonders and dangers to light in the skies of Pern, Anne McCaffrey and her son, Todd, who demonstrated his writing talents in the bestselling novels Dragon’s Kin and Dragonsblood, return with their second collaboration: a thrilling adventure of di...

Reader Review: I loved this book. The main characters, Tally and Michael, made me laugh. You just have to love a Navy Seal who is afraid of the water and a heroine who is afraid of the dark. Throw in a three-legged cat, and you will be laughing out loud. It was action-packed, f...

Reader Review: This isn't one of my favorite T-flac books, but it's still a great read. AJ is wonderful. She's as tough as they come, but also model gorgeous. However, I didn't really like Kane. He was sort of strange, in my opinion, and I had a hard time with the storyline bec...

The clone assassin has been played long enough– now it’s more than a game. Bred to kill, Agent 47 is The Agency’s most valuable assassin. So when a competing murder-for-hire organization decides to destroy The Agency, the first person they target f...

Since it first appeared on bookshelves, The Bipolar Child has made an indelible mark on the field of psychiatry and has become the resource that families rely upon. Now, with more than 200,000 copies sold, the first book about early-onset bipolar disorder is compl...

From the bestselling author and star of National Geographic Channel's Dog Whisperer , the only resource you’ll need for raising a happy, healthy dog. For the millions of people every year who consider bringing a puppy into their lives–as well as thos...

The first step is admitting that you have a Bush problem–and that you have ten bucks for this book. • Do you think that after eight years of George Bush, this country is in good shape? • Do you feel that the U.S. Constitution has too many Amendme...

In a series of disarmingly simple arguments financial market analyst George Cooper challenges the core principles of today's economic orthodoxy and explains how we have created an economy that is inherently unstable and crisis prone. With great skill, he examines the...

Play ball! That’s what the sixth-grade Buckman Badgers baseball team plans on doing. Eddie Malloy and Jake Hatford hope to lead their team to the championship game the last Saturday in May. But due to a mix-up, Mrs. Hatford has to run a yard sale for the Women&...

Bound by honor... The moment Rhys saw the stunning young woman selling her exquisitely crafted pottery in the marketplace, he was captivated. But the wealthy freemason would never have guessed that just a few days later, a misunderstanding would land Joan in the t...

Like an aging monument, democracy itself is crumbling. An ever increasing government threatens both freedom and a financial collapse. * Judges are acting more like kings themselves than interpreters of the law * Redisticting, voter fraud, campaign finance c...

In this wide-ranging new volume, one of our most important and perceptive scholars of the workings of the American government investigates political parties, politicians, elections, and policymaking to discover why public policy emerges in the shape that it does. Dav...

A New Guide to Navigating the Proposed Rules of the Road for Cyberspace.