In October 1998, one of the most savage storms in Atlantic history cornered a 282-foot passenger sailing ship against an exposed Caribbean coastline. With nowhere to hide and no time to run, Fantome turned to face Hurricane Mitch's assault of 180 mile-per-hour winds and 50-foot seas. As the eye of the ... more »

Discover the perfect career for you through the secrets of Personality Type. Unlock the secrets of Personality Type--how you process information, make decisions, and interact with the world around you--and discover the career that is right for you. Do What You Are introduces Personality Type and shows ... more »

Yes, your parents probably still have sex. And yes, it can still be very, very, good. Sex isn't just for kids anymore. Making love should be hot, fun and exciting at every stage of life. In Now and Forever--Let's Make Love , popular author Joan Elizabeth Lloyd gives sensible, yet sensual, advice on how ... more »

The popularity of books such as The Sensuous Woman , My Secret Garden , and Secrets About Men Every Woman Should Know , as well as the author's own Nice Couples Do , proves that there is a growing market for books that celebrate healthy sex. Now Joan Lloyd explores the sensuality of the senses in a book ... more »

From one of the great novelists of our day, a vital, brilliant new book of essays, speeches and articles essential for our times. Step Across This Line showcases the other side of one of fiction's most astonishing conjurors. On display is Salman Rushdie's incisive, thoughtful and generous mind, in prose ... more »

We are what we say. Now Sarah Myers McGinty, Ph.D., takes up where Deborah Tannen left off to delve into the ways our speech creates our identity. In this breakthrough book, McGinty shows how a little attention to our verbal patterns helps us alter the balance of power and always come out ahead. You ... more »

DEAR MR. MANSON . . . It started with a college course assignment, then escalated into a dangerous obsession. Eighteen-year-old honor student Jason Moss wrote to men whose body counts had made criminal history: men named Dahmer, Manson, Ramirez, and Gacy. DEAR MR. DAHMER . . . Posing as their ideal victim ... more »

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Written with the same graceful narrative voice that made his bestselling National Book Award finalist The Big House such a success, George Howe Colt's November of the Soul is a compassionate, compelling, thought-provoking, and exhaustive investigation into the subject of suicide. Drawing on hundreds ... more »

Biotech companies are racing to alter the genetic building blocks of the world's food. In the United States, the primary venue for this quiet revolution, the acreage of genetically modified crops has soared from zero to 70 million acres since 1996. More than half of America's processed grocery products ... more »

SPEAKING IN SPANGLISH is the story of a migration for survival, of a people stuggling to find meaning in a complex world. Morales argues that Latino culture has never been about choosing an affiliation with a particular race -- it is a space where multiple levels of identification are possible. more »

They work hard, are devoted to family, love sex, and know the importance of a good piece of real estate. Honey bees, and the daily workings of their close-knit colonies, are one of nature's great miracles. And they produce one of nature's greatest edible bounties: honey. More than just a palate pleaser ... more »