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Snowfall
Tom Doherty Associates 2007; US$ 6.99Snowfall features another sharp-tongued, uncompromising heroine, Catania Olsen. She is the doctor for and spiritual guardian of a band of hunters who live at the edge of a great Wall of ice in what was once Colorado. In the country of the Trappers, books are hand-copied so that knowledge may be preserved, but the technology described in their precious... more...
Moonrise
Tom Doherty Associates 2007; US$ 14.99Several hundred years after a change in the orbit of Jupiter sent the Earth into a new Ice Age, remnants of civilization battle over territory and technology. A generation has passed since Sam Monroe defeated the Great Khan, became King of Middle Kingdom, and ushered in an era of peace and prosperity, a time when Middle Kingdom grew even more powerful,... more...
Kingdom River
Tom Doherty Associates 2007; US$ 14.99Sam Monroe is the reluctant commander of a tough-minded warrior people living in what was once northern Mexico. His tiny country is flanked on the northeast by the Kingdom River, a vast, trade-driven nation that replaced the southern United States, and on the northwest by the Khanate, an empire of nomads who swept down the west coast after crossing... more...
Stone City
Simon & Schuster 2012; US$ 11.99A thrilling and gripping page-turner, that serves as both a sociological study of prison life and a metaphor for contemporary America. In a prison of youthful hardcore criminals, a college professor convicted of killing a young girl while driving drunk teaches other inmates reading skills. A series of killings prompts officials to coerce Bauman to... more...
Environmental and Health Regulation in the United States and the European Union
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 90.00This book explains why the rigor of environmental and health regulation in the European Union has surpassed that in the United States during the past decade. The essence of this difference is that U.S. regulators seek to balance regulatory objectives with competitiveness goals, while EU regulators must triangulate regulatory objectives, competitiveness,... more...
Legitimacy and the European Union
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 55.95Since the Maastricht ratification debate of the early 1990s, the legitimacy of the European Union has become a subject of controversy. With unprecedented force, Europeans have begun to question the need for deeper integration. Some fear threats to established national identities, while others perceive the emergence of a distant but powerful Brussels,... more...
The Little Christmas Elf
Random House Children's Books 2011; US$ 3.99Nina, the littlest elf in Santa's workshop, doesn't finish the teddy bear she's making in time for it to get loaded onto Santa's sleigh-but, encouraged by Santa Claus himself to not give up, she works far into the night to finish it. While Santa is out delivering presents, a baby is born. Santa comes back for Nina's now-finished bear?and guess who... more...
Experiencing Animal Minds
Columbia University Press 2012; US$ 34.99In these multidisciplinary essays, academic scholars and animal experts explore the nature of animal minds and the methods humans conventionally and unconventionally use to understand them. The collection features chapters by scholars working in psychology, sociology, history, philosophy, literary studies, and art as well as chapters by or about people... more...
Fat Is Not Your Fate
Touchstone 2005; US$ 21.99What Type Are You? ·Do you crave foods such as chocolate and feel you can't stop eating them? (Phenotype A = Addictive) ·Does high blood pressure run in your family? (Phenotype B = Blood pressure) ·Do you have a strong family history of heart disease? (Phenotype C = Cardiovascular) ·Do you have an apple- instead of a pear-shaped body? (Phenotype... more...
Picturing Research
Springer 2012; US$ 39.95Picturing research: drawing as visual methodology offers a timely analysis of the use of drawings in qualitative research. Drawing can be a method in itself, as in the research area of Visual Studies, and also one that complements the use of photography, video, and other visual methodologies. This edited volume is divided into two sections. The first... more...









