High-impact outline format SCORE HIGHER ON THE USMLE STEP 1 WITH THIS SUPER-POTENT STUDY TOOL This power-packed outline teaches you frequently tested diseases and syndromes on the USMLE Step 1-while sharpening your mastery of basic science concepts. You get everything you need for star performance on ... more »

The War on Terror . . . with a little more firepower Violence and tensions along the U.S.-Mexican border have never been higher, sparked by battles between rival drug lords and an increased flow of illegal migrants. To combat the threat, the United States has executed Operation Rampart: a controversial ... more »

Summer vacation becomes a season in hell for an ordinary family who unwittingly stir something invisible, insidious, and insatiable from its secret slumber-unleashing a wave of horror only the darkest evil could create, that only a master of spine-tingling terror like John Saul could orchestrate. For ... more »

Homer Hickam is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller October Sky as well as the acclaimed follow-up to October Sky, The Coalwood Way. He is also the author of Back to the Moon and Torpedo Junction, as well as numerous articles for such publications as Smithsonian Air and Space and American ... more »

Rafael Molinet Rojas, an inconspicuous Spaniard living in London, regrettably finds that there is nothing worth living for when his closest companion-his mother-dies. Hoping to make a dignified-and, although he won't admit it, dramatic-exit from this world, Molinet plots his escape, picking an elegant ... more »

  Communicate with your Spanish-speaking students and parents as easy as uno, dos, tres A working knowledge of the Spanish language is an indispensable part of an educator's skill set. McGraw-Hill's Spanish for Educators gives you more than 3,000 Spanish words and phrases and the basic grammar needed ... more »

Get the most use possible from your iPod with the fully updated version of this bestselling how-to guide. You'll discover that today's iPods can be used for much more than just playing music. Now you can enjoy videos, load your iPod with your calendar and contacts, transfer up-to-the-minute headlines ... more »

From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach visits a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting ... more »

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATHERLAND AND POMPEII COMES THE MOST PROVOCATIVE AND BRILLIANT NOVEL OF ANTIQUITY SINCE I, CLAUDIUS -- IMPERIUM A CAUTIONARY TALE OF CICERO, THE GREATEST ORATOR OF ALL TIME, AND HIS EXTRAORDINARY STRUGGLE FOR POWER IN ROME. When Tiro, the confidential secretary (and slave ... more »

Brewster Billings is perhaps a little too wrapped up with his computer. He has given it a pet name, Lingo. He has programmed it with the ability to talk to its owner. In fact, Lingo has begun to respond to Brewster's programming skill surprisingly well. Lingo soon makes the jump from polite conversation ... more »

Who is killing the rich society widows of Beverly Hills? Meet Kerry and Terry McAfee--identical twin sisters who have nothing in common, save their red hair and California-girl looks. Kerry's the good girl, a straight-A student who won a scholarship to UCLA. Terry's the bad girl, whose appetite for nose ... more »

It's a game of Trolls and Dwarfs where the player must take both sides to win ... It's the noise a troll club makes when crushing in a dwarf skull, or when a dwarfish axe cleaves a trollish cranium ... It's the unsettling sound of history about to repeat itself ... THUD! It's the most extraordinary, ... more »