Boasting more than 300 full-color maps and illustrations, this essential new atlas dramatically highlights the tremendous changes occurring within China-the world's fastest growing economy and most populous place-as well as their global implicat

Thin, glossy and gorgeous, Darshini Majumdar is teenage perfection. Her poise is inherited from Tuhina, her indulgent mother, a whirlwind of power and polish. The two combine to form "The Two-headed Tigress" - a beast so fearsome, it makes Praka

Life has gone well for George Mason. His days as a criminal defense lawyer are long behind him. At fifty-nine, he has sat as a judge on the Court of Appeals in Kindle County for nearly a decade. Yet, when a disturbing rape case is brought before

In 1971, 10-year old Charlie Foran handed in a Grade Five writing project called "The Story of My Life (So Far)". In this revised and expanded version, Charles Foran relates the story of his boyhood told from a boy's perspective.

Narnia. . . a land frozen in eternal winter. . . a country waiting to be set free. Four adventures step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia - a land enslaved by the power of the White Witch. But when almost all hope is lost, the

Featuring 5,000 questions in more than 200 ready-to-ask quizzes, Collins Quiz Master makes for the perfect quiz companion. The book contains a mixture of general knowledge and thematic questions - ranging from Sport and Soap Operas to Battles an

John Cornwell decided to become a priest at the age of thirteen, a strange choice for a boy who'd been sent to a 'convalescent home' for having whacked a nun about the head. Growing up in a chaotic household, sharing two rooms with his brothers

When Pish and Posh discover fairy magic, they face a series of wacky surprises.

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries England was the greatest slave trading nation in the world. John Hawkyns, Queen Elizabeth's personal slave trader, had established the pattern during the 1560s.

Young and ambitious, Quinn Barry desperately wants to be an FBI agent, even as she programs databases in the basement of the J. Edgar Hoover building. Testing a new program, Quinn turns up a mysterious DNA link among five gruesome murders. Pitte

Bailey shows recovering people how to tap their own source of positive energy in a new approach to the search for serenity - a quest long recognized as the key to recovery from addiction. By identifying four principles of psychological function

A concise, comprehensive overview of the nursing positions available and their respective requirements. The history, current status, and future of the profession. Getting into nursing school and financing your education. Choosing a specialty - E

America, thirty-five years in the future, a very different country from today's. It is now an Islamic Republic; calls to prayer echo across the cities and the Black Robes, the enforcers of public virtue, prowl the streets on the lookout for inap

Mr. and Mrs. Green, two alligators, spend time together fishing, painting, and going to the park.

In a collection of essays that are often personal, occasionally journalistic, and frequently meditative, Rob Campbell takes a look at the world from a different perspective - through the reflective lens of the automobile in our car-obsessed cult

It's a hot August Saturday on Nantucket Island. Over the course of the next 24 hours, two lives will be transformed forever. Marguerite Beale, former chef of culinary hot spot Les Parapluies, has been out of the public eye for over a decade. Thi

A "New York Times" bestselling author writing under a pseudonym tells a parable for the times - a take on small-town America that is hilarious, moving, and utterly original.

As Glasgow waits for the German invasion to begin, Lizzie Conway's daughters struggle to find their way in a world turned upside down. Stirling has penned an enthralling new novel set in the darkest days of World War II.

The Hive recounts the astonishing tale of all the weird and wonderful things that humans believed about bees and their "society" over the ages. It ranges from the honey delta of ancient Egypt to the Tupelo forests of modern Florida, taking in a

Adroitly capturing love and all its nuances, So This Is Love pulsates with underlying currents of violence, sex, passion, and the politics of desire. Tracing the globe, characters find themselves caught in the entanglements of memory, forgetting