St. Martins Press-3PL - Böcker

"[Vance has] a velvety elegance that rivals John Gielgud reciting poetry . . . . one of the treasures of science fiction." -"The Washington Post Book World" <BR>"Alastor"<BR>"Trullion: Alastor 2262 / ...

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America has become a society devoid of any clear understanding of the power and logic of numbers. In this book, one of America's most popular columnists offers a classic and enduring work intended to help readers restore the ability to reason, to ...

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With her customary boldness and insight, bell hooks describes a woman's struggle to devote herself to writing, sharing the difficulties, the triumphs, the pleasures, and the dangers.

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With John Lee Hooker’s death in June 2001 the world lost one of the last great Mississippi Delta bluesmen. Acclaimed writer Charles Schaar Murray’s" Boogie Man" is the authorized and authoritative biography of this musician w...

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"As if Deadpool had slipped into the body of the Witcher Geralt." - The New York Times In the pitch dark, witty fantasy novella Prosper's Demon , K. J. Parker deftly creates a world with vivid, unbending rules, seething with demons, brok...

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A big, brash history of Guns n' Roses charismatic, talented and idiosyncratic leader "An archetypal rock biography that captures the runaway-train spirit of the singer and his band-You don't have to be a Guns N' Roses fanatic to dig this ener...

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Susan Strasser's pathbreaking histories of housework and the rise of the mass market have become classics in the literature of consumer culture. Waste and Want examines an essential but neglected part of that culture-the trash it produces-and find...

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A Taste of Honey is the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Theodore Sturgeon, and Locus finalist novella that N. K. Jemisin calls "a love story as painful as it is beautiful and complex". Find out why Wired named it one of the 20 Best Books of...

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A noted social psychologist exposes a widespread cultural bias against unmarried adults, showing how singles are stereotyped, stigmatized, and ignored, and yet can still live happily ever after.

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Professor Vellitt Boe teaches at the prestigious Ulthar Women's College. When one of her most gifted students elopes with a dreamer from the waking world, Vellitt must retrieve her. "Kij Johnson's haunting novella The Dream-Quest of Vellitt B...

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Lambdin's lovable but incorrigible rogue, Capt. Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, is back to cut a wide and wicked swatch through the war-torn Caribbean in an entirely new high-seas adventure.

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""The Athlete's Way" is amazingly informative and complete with a program to get and keep you off the couch. Bravo, for another exercising zealot who has written a book that should be read on your elliptical or stationary bike. He p...

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"Complex, personal, and profound ... a brash and brave piece of writing ... filled with the swords and spears that inflict the carnage of the Iliad ." - The Wall Street Journal Why Homer Matters is a magical journey of discovery across w...

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Nobel Prize winner White's 1973 classic is now adapted as a major motion picture, starring Charlotte Rampling, Judy Davis, and Geoffrey Rush.

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Sixty years after Dorothy L. Sayers began her unfinished Lord Peter Wimsey novel, Thrones Dominations , Booker Prize finalist Jill Paton Walsh took on the challenge of completing the manuscript-with extraordinary success. "The transition is s...

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Developed from John Lee's popular workshops that combine meditative exercises, physical action, and emotional release work, Writing From the Body combats the fears, self-imposed standards, and suppressed feelings that block writers' creative poten...

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A stunning saga of love, sport, and buried secrets Rob Carrey is a successful documentary filmmaker who has returned from a shoot to New York City, where he's prepared to separate from Carolyn, his long-time love. But when he finds an invitation t...

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An insightful history of Churchill's lifelong commitment-both public and private-to the Jews and Zionism, and of his outspoken opposition to anti-Semitism Winston Churchill's commitment to Jewish rights, to Zionism, and ultimately to the State of ...

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When Centurion Macro and his young subordinate, Optio Cato arrive on the shores of Britain to take part in the Emperor Claudius' invasion in AD 43, Macro knows the desperately outnumbered Roman army will be facing one of the toughest campaigns eve...

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Every day, we are told that balance is a good thing. We are supposed to make balanced judgments, balance our budget, and preserve a balance of power in our government. Disturbed people are described as unbalanced. In this insightful, charming book...

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The ninth novel in Graham's classic Poldark saga, now a major TV series from Masterpiece PBS. Graham explores the complications of love lost and the class struggle of early 19th-century England with a light comic touch.

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By turns intimate, instructive, gossipy, curmudgeonly, elegant, hilarious, cunning, and consoling, the "Paris Review" interviews have come to be celebrated as classic literary works in their own right. Now, from the treasure trove of the...

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Not too far away from the flea markets, dusty attics, cluttered used record stores and Ebay is the world of the vinyl junkies. Brett Milano dives deep into the piles of old vinyl to uncover the subculture of record collecting. A vinyl junkie is no...

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The fifth story in Farlands "New York Times" bestselling Runelords series picks up eight years after the events of "The Lair of Bones." This volume focuses on Gaborns son, Fallion, who is the resurrection of an immortal whose p...

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Bagels, deli sandwiches and gefilte fish are only a few of the Jewish foods to have crossed into American culture and onto American plates. Rhapsody in Schmaltz traces the history and social impact of the cuisine that Yiddish-speaking Jews from Ce...

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Mr. Ruche, a Parisian bookseller, receives a vast library of math books from a long-lost friend. Meanwhile Max, whose family lives with Mr. Ruche, takes in a voluble parrot who will discuss math with anyone. Mr. Ruche enlists the parrot's help to ...

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A "New York Times Book Review" Editors' Choice The U.S. publication of "A Book of Memories "in 1997 introduced to our shores the work of an extraordinary novelist, Peter Nadas. Now, in "Fire and Knowledge," a superb c...

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