The Years with Laura Diaz is Carlos Fuentes's most important novel in several decades. Like his masterpiece The Death of Artemio Cruz, the action begins i...

An exploration of love, lust and betrayal. The central character is Diana Soren, an elegy for a decade that refused to die. She is a predator set on self-...

A complete and comprehensive treatment of the physics of the stellar interior and the underlying fundamental processes and parameters. The text presents a...

Acclaim for HARUКI MURAKAMI'SDANCE DANCE DANCE«An entertaining mix of modern sci-fi, nail-biting suspense, and ancient myth ... a sometimes funny, sometim...

With Rio Noir, the Akashic Noir Series delves for the first time into South America.

The discovery of the quantum—the idea, born in the early 1900s in a remote corner of physics, that energy comes in finite packets instead of infinitely di...

This inspired novel is narrated by the as yet unborn first child to be born on October 12, 1992, the five hundredth anniversary of Columbus's discovery of...

In the five novellas that comprise The Orange Tree, Carlos Fuentes continues the passionate and imaginative reconstruction of past and present history tha...

Pinball, 1973 is a novel published in 1980 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The second book in the "Trilogy of the Rat" series, it is preceded by Hear ...

The Borderlands are returning. The old fault lines of old empires have regained political relevance in world politics.

Alfred J. Rieber's ambitious bo...

A. Kroeber, American anthropologist, cultural scientist, ethnologist, made a huge contribution to the development of American anthropology. The nature of cul...

ACCLAIM FOR Haruki Murakami“[A Wild Sheep Chase is] a bold new advance in international fiction…. Youthful, slangy, political, and allegorical.”—The New Y...