Adult imprint: 1806 books
This Land Is Your Land
Woody Guthrie and the Journey of an American Folk Song
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
"This Land Is Your Land" is the most iconic folk song in American history, and is the masterwork of one of America's greatest artists, Woody Guthrie. Written in 1940 and first recorded in 1944, the song became an instant hit, and then a point of controversy, and finally a cross-generation...
God Created The Integers
The Mathematical Breakthroughs that Changed History
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007
Bestselling author and physicist Stephen Hawking explores the "masterpieces" of mathematics, 25 landmarks spanning 2,500 years and representing the work of 15 mathematicians, including Augustin Cauchy, Bernard Riemann, and Alan Turing. This extensive anthology allows readers to peer into...
Beg
A Radical New Way of Regarding Animals
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Rory Freedman, co-author of the #1 New York Times mega-seller Skinny Bitch, returns with a call-to-arms to all animal lovers.
So many of us call ourselves animal lovers and worship our dogs and cats-but we could be using that love as a force for helping all animals. Beg is a battle cry on their...
by Emma Neale
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
A moving, compelling story about society and our reactions to difference, convincingly evoked, beautifully written. A young man is found unconscious in a remote forest. He is over seven feet tall, his skin covered in thick hair which reminds onlookers of an animal's pelt. When he wakes in a city hospital,...
The Nutters Club
Helping Nutters from the Inside Out
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
**Comedian Mike King and a skilled psychiatrist take a novel approach to issues of mental health.**Comedian Mike King's Radio Live show The Nutters Club is hugely popular because it is a forum where those with all manner of mental health issues can discuss their stories in a warm and accepting environment....
Half Baked
The Story of My Nerves, My Newborn, and How We Both Learned to Breathe
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Author Alexa Stevenson had spent most of her life preparing for the wrong disasters. When her daughter is born 15 weeks early, she is plunged into the strange half-light of the Newborn Intensive Care Unit, where she learns the Zen of medical uncertainty and makes the surprising discovery that a worst-case...
by Julian Novitz
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
**Holocaust Tours is funny, fierce and unafraid: a first novel that questions what history means to us now.**Taking time out in the UK, Daniel meets Anita. Getting involved with her means getting involved with her study of Holocaust memorials - and brings him face to face with his own Jewish heritage....
Make It Up
The Essential Guide to DIY Makeup and Skin Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Ever think of making your own beauty products- handmade, high performance, healthy alternatives to just about every chemical laden product you currently put on your face and body? It's easier than you think!
In Make It Up author Marie Rayma shares the recipes she has developed through years...
The City Homesteader
Self-Sufficiency on Any Square Footage
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
The City Homesteader is the handbook for the world of self-sufficient living. It's about living tangibly in a virtual world. It's about being resourceful, saving money, reducing consumption, and increasing self-reliance. Join the many who are raising backyard chickens in the city and tilling their...
The Dreams That Stuff Is Made Of
The Most Astounding Papers of Quantum Physics--and How They Shook the Scientific World
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
"God does not play dice with the universe." So said Albert Einstein in response to the first discoveries that launched quantum physics, as they suggested a random universe that seemed to violate the laws of common sense. This 20th-century scientific revolution completely shattered Newtonian...
Eat Safe
The Truth about Additives from Aspartame to Xanthan Gum
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2009
Updated and revised, this edition of the international bestseller is an easy-to-read, pocket-size guide to the additives that color, preserve, and flavor everything you—and your kids and your pets!—eat. It's comprehensive: including the common name of the additive (e.g. Aluminum ammonium sulfate);...
by Nick Redfern
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Just what makes a locale one of the world's most mysterious places is a subject open to debate. But if Bigfoot, UFOs, and chain-rattling ghosts all appear in one particular location, time and again, along with a fantastic range of other bizarre phenomena, then this is highly suggestive that the place...
by Holly Ford
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
**A compelling rural romance set in the rugged high country of New Zealand's South Island.**Four generations of the Black family have farmed Blackpeak Station. Next in line, or so she believes, is Charlotte Black, stubborn as rock and unbiddable as the weather. But standing in her way are 150 years...
by Owen Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
**Brilliantly tracing the progress of unexpected love and the perils of relationships, this gripping novel is a tour de force.**Temporarily in Auckland while her husband is undergoing treatment, Sarah enjoys a walk in the coolness of the Symonds Street Cemetery. As she pauses at the grave of Emily...