Two years ago, readers eagerly devoured The Living Dead. Publishers Weekly named it one of the Best Books of the Year, and Barnes Noble.com called it "The...

The four-engine Convair 440, battered by time, made a circle over the city and began to land. Jean looked around at the familiar landscape: the endless ocean...

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This Very Short Introduction offers a clear, accessible, and concise account of the apocryphal gospels--exploring their origins, their discovery, and disc...

This entertaining Very Short Introduction reflects the enduring popularity of archaeology-a subject which appeals as a pastime, career, and academic disci...

In a miracle of concision, Paul S. Boyer provides a wide-ranging and authoritative history of America, capturing in a compact space the full story of our ...

Entering a weird, remote hamlet, Andrei calls himself "a simple wayfarer," but he is in fact highly compromised: he has no identity papers. Taken under th...

The second volume of King Ink includes lyrics from Australian rock singer Nick Cave's albums, from "Tender Prey" to "The Boatman's Call", never-before-publis...

This freckled prankster has fulfilled the wishes of Mr. Peppermint and his son Martin many times and helped them change their lives for the better. But now S...

In this book, Paulo Coelho collected all his stories previously published in various newspapers and magazines. They were written at different periods of his ...

This publication is compiled from pre-revolutionary translations by Paul Natorp. However, it did not include (due to the limited volume of the publication) a...