In One for the Books, Queenan tries to come to terms with his own eccentric reading style—how many more books will he have time to read in his lifetime? Why does he refuse to read books hailed by reviewers as “astonishing”?
After becoming involved in a credit-card scam with his childhood friend, Vinnie McCloskey-Schmidt, small-time Long-Island crook Johnnie LoDuco receives an unpleasant surprise during a fishing expedition when he reels in Vinnie's head.
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Deftly written and darkly funny, Germania is an astounding adventure tale -- with subplots involving a hidden cache of Nazi gold, Hitler's miracle U-boats, and Speer's secret plan to live out his days hunting walrus in Greenland -- and a ...
Steven Weitzman takes a learned and lively look at what we know—or think we know—about where the Jews came from, when they arose, and how they came to be.
This volume covers this broad and complex area of interrelated issues. The contributions focus on religious and spiritual meaning making and transformation.
This book narrates the far-reaching history of antibiotics, focusing particularly on reform efforts that attempted to fundamentally change how antibiotics are developed and prescribed