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Gabriel Rotello, an award-winning gay journalist and long-time AIDS activist, has done in this book something no writer has done before. Weaving together the strands of ecology theory, epidemiology and sexual politics, he shows how the AIDS epidemic, like other epidemics from influenza to bubonic plague to today's rapidly emerging viruses, result as much from human behaviors as from specific microbes.

Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Christopher Storer Frank Machianno is a late-middle-aged ex-surf bum who runs a bait shack on the San Diego waterfront. An affable Italian with a love of people and life, he's a stand-up businessman, devoted father, and a beloved fixture in the...

1913. The clouds of war are gathering. The world’s great empires vie for supremacy. Europe is in turmoil, a powder keg awaiting a spark. A body is discovered on the shore below Beachy Head, just a mile from Sherlock Holmes’s retirement cottage. The local police are satisfied that it’s a suicide. The victim, a young man, recently suffered a disappointment in love, and Beachy Head is notorious as a place where the desperate and depressed leap to their deaths. Holmes, however, suspects murder. As he and Watson investigate, they uncover a conspiracy with shocking ramifications.

A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus’s landing had crossed the Bering...

Winner of the British Book Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2007.
With fourteen years left on a twenty-year sentence, notorious Washington powerbroker Joel Blackman receives a surprise pardon from a lame duck President. He is smuggled out of the country on a military cargo plane, given a new identity, and tucked away in a small town in Italy. But Backman has serious enemies from his past.

A widely acclaimed international best seller, I'm Not Scared combines a coming-of-age narrative with a satisfying and spine-tingling story of suspense. A sweltering heat wave hits a tiny village in Southern Italy, sending the adults to seek shelter, while their children bicycle freely throughout the countryside, playing games and getting into trouble. When the gang find a dilapidated farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano makes a discovery so momentous he dare not tell a soul.

The year 1894. The monstrous Hound of the Baskervilles has been dead for five years, along with its no less monstrous owner, the naturalist Jack Stapleton. Sir Henry Baskerville is living contentedly at Baskerville Hall with his new wife, Audrey, and their three-year-old son, Harry. Until, that is, Audrey’s lifeless body is found on the moors, drained of blood. It would appear some fiendish creature is once more at large on Dartmoor and has, like its predecessor, targeted the unfortunate Baskerville family. 

Commanded by Captain Howes Norris, the Sharon headed for the whaling grounds of the northwestern Pacific. At Pohnpei Island, 12 men from the Sharon deserted the ship, leaving her critically shorthanded. After steering for New Zealand to recruit more crew, the men on lookout raised a school of sperm whales. Two boats gave chase, each with a crew of six. Five men were left on board the Sharon: Norris, three pacific Islanders, and a Portuguese boy named Manuel.

The current consensus economic model, the neoclassical synthesis, depends on aprioristic assumptions that are shown to be invalid when tested against the data and fails to include finance. Economic policy based on this consensus has led to the financial crisis of 2008, the "Great Recession" that followed, and the slow subsequent rate of growth. In The Economics of the Stock Market, Andrew Smithers proposes a model that is robust when tested, and by including the impact of the stock market on the economy, overcomes both these defects. T

Winner of the PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the Chautauqua Prize! Named a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Oprah Daily, BookPage, Book Riot, the New York Public Library, and more! In The Song of the Cell, the extraordinary...

2 b r 0 2 b is a classic science fiction short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Regarded by critics and fans alike as one of the most accomplished and witty social commentators of the twentieth century, all of Kurt Vonnegut's unique strengths as a writer shine in the short fiction piece 2 b r 0 2 b.

A preeminent geneticist hunts the Neanderthal genome to answer the biggest question of them all: what does it mean to be human? What can we learn from the genes of our closest evolutionary relatives? Neanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Pbo’s mission to answer that question, beginning with the study of DNA in Egyptian mummies in the early 1980s and culminating in his sequencing of the Neanderthal genome in 2009.

“When the history of Hollywood is written, few people will have played a larger role than Michael Ovitz.... It is impossible to read such a chronicle and not see Mr. Ovitz as the Steve Jobs of agenting, possessing a version of Jobs’s fanatical drive and a similar desire to remake an industry...

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST NATIONAL BESTSELLER A wondrous and shattering award-winning novel that follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize. A contemporary classic, this...

Cassandra ist schwer getroffen von ihrem Verlust! Sie fährt nach Hause, um sich über die Zukunft klar zu werden. Doch bevor sie kapiert, was geschieht, steht auf einmal ihre Cousine Savannah vor ihrer Tür und reißt sie aus ihren Gedanken. Nach und nach trudeln immer mehr ihrer Freunde ein und erinnern sie an alte Zeiten, die sie schon vergessen glaubte. Ein neuer Sound in ihrem Leben entsteht.

Ben Armstrong ist ein äußerst erfolgreicher Geschäftsmann. Was er angeht, hat Erfolg! Lilliana liebt ihre Arbeit auf dem Filmgelände von Los Angeles. Doch auch ihr fällt es nicht immer leicht, diese Freude aufrechtzuerhalten, denn ihre Vergangenheit holt sie immer wieder ein und legte sich wie ein dunkler Schatten über sie. Nachdem sie Ben kennenlernt, wird er zu ihrem Anker und schnell wird Lilli klar, dass sie sich nicht nur freundschaftlich zu ihm hingezogen fühlt.

Musik war schon immer sein Leben, doch der Ruhm hat seine Schattenseiten. Lucian Dark liebt ausschweifende Partys, Alkohol und die Frauen. Doch mit der Zeit gleicht ein Tag dem anderen. Cassandra Presten, die frisch eingestellte PR-Agentin seiner Band Night Rock, fasziniert ihn vom ersten Augenblick, und ihre Nähe wird wie eine Sucht für ihn. Sie ist fest entschlossen, ordentlich aufzuräumen. Doch einer der Rocker bringt sie mächtig ins Wanken. Leidenschaft und Lust werden überlagert von Geheimnissen.

Nach dem Leck der Kerguelen-Akte steht die Welt am Abgrund. Regierungen geraten in Panik, Medien überschlagen sich mit Spekulationen – und im Hintergrund formiert sich ein Machtkampf, der das globale Gleichgewicht zu zerstören droht. Dan McCarthy und Emma Jenkins finden sich zwischen den Fronten einer internationalen Krise wieder. Während Präsidentin Slater und Premierminister Godfrey verzweifelt um Kontrolle ringen, verfolgt Richard Walker seinen eigenen Plan: Er kennt die wahre Bedeutung der mysteriösen Sphäre – und wie nah die Gefahr bereits ist.

We journey into the heart of the Amazon to uncover the mysteries of Hapé Sacred Tobacco, a traditional medicine deeply ingrained in the spiritual fabric of South America's indigenous tribes. This book aims to bridge worlds, offering listeners a glimpse into the ancient rituals and wisdom surrounding Hapé.

Children are vanishing without a trace. No ransom demands. No warnings. Just gone. When Jack Noble is dragged into the twisted underworld of child trafficking, the mission becomes personal. Manipulated by a shadowy mastermind with unimaginable power, Jack finds himself thrust into the role of both hunter and hunted. Every step deeper into the darkness reveals more than Jack is prepared to face. The deeper he goes, the higher the stakes rise—not just for the innocent lives at risk, but for his own survival.