Hiding out in Riverside Park after lashing out at the boy who stole his girlfriend, Jack joins ranks with a group of vagrants and is soon under the sway of a man called the Leader, a charismatic ex-convict.

Product Description: "Vivid and sensitive."  —  Publishers Weekly.Inspired by Herman Melville's novella, this graphic novel recounts a gifted and naïve young man's recruitment by the Soviet secret service and his adventures in New York City as a spy...read more

The last decade has seen a considerable renaissance in the realm of classical dynamical systems, and many things that may have appeared mathematically overly sophisticated at the time of the first appearance of this textbook have since become the everyday tools of working physicists. This new edition is intended to take this development into account. I have also tried to make the book more readable and to eradicate errors. Since the first edition already contained plenty of material for a one­ semester course, new material was added only when some of the original could be dropped or simplified. Even so, it was necessary to expand the chap­ ter with the proof of the K-A-M Theorem to make allowances for the cur­ rent trend in physics. This involved not only the use of more refined mathe­ matical tools, but also a reevaluation of the word "fundamental. " What was earlier dismissed as a grubby calculation is now seen as the consequence of a deep principle. Even Kepler's laws, which determine the radii of the planetary orbits, and which used to be passed over in silence as mystical nonsense, seem to point the way to a truth unattainable by superficial observation: The ratios of the radii of Platonic solids to the radii of inscribed Platonic solids are irrational, but satisfy algebraic equations of lower order.

Continues the enchanting saga begun in The Dark Lady From Bellorusse, in a memoir that contains remembrances from a quasi-surreal childhood in the Bronx during and just after World War II.

Product Description: A cop and his disgraced mentor attempt to bust a white slavery ring. Before Isaac Sidel adopts him, Manfred Coen is a mutt. A kid from the Bronx, he joins the police academy after his father's suicide leaves him directionless, and is trudging along like any other cadet when first deputy Sidel, the commissioner's right hand man, comes looking for a young cop with blue eyes to infiltrate a ring of Polish smugglers...read more

MysteryLarge Print EditionCharyn tells his complicated story with touches of magic realism, bursts of pulp lyricism and a level of energy and imagination as high as anyone writing today. starred, Publishers WeeklyIn the emerald island of Yankee Stadium, New York mayor Isaac Sidel, often called El Caballo, watches millionaires play baseball while a few blocks away, children smoke crack in alleys. He has no illusions about his city its up for grabs and he knows it. But in the midst of it all, Sidel is obsessed with a young graffiti artist, a boy nicknamed Alyosha who could die for beauty by the side of a jaded little rich girl. His city beyond redemption, his soul racked by guilt, El Caballo will save the Bronx or bury his heart there.

In a final installment in the trilogy that began with The Black Swan and Captain Kidd the author recounts experiences with a preadolescent candy store gang, a summa cum laude graduate-turned-egg seller, and instruction as the protTgT of a famous gangster. 10,000 first printing.

A larger-than-life portrait of World War II general George Patton is seen through the eyes of a member of his personal staff, Captain Roland Kahn, who walks the General's dog and runs a profitable scheme selling army supplies to underground customers.

A new installment in the lively, imaginative mystery series follows New York City mayor Isaac Sidel on his bid for the vice presidency of America, which is threatened by his certifiably insane predecessor and a supposedly dead policeman spreading mayhem.

A crime-lover's treasury of cutthroat murders and hairbreadth escapes includes the writings of such popular authors as James Ellroy, Lawrence Block, Sue Grafton, Tony Hillerman, P. D. James, and Sara Paretsky. Reprint. PW. (view table of contents)

The writer recalls his youth in the Bronx and his mother, Faigele, a beautiful immigrant from Russia

An imaginative account of the real-life love affair between Bill Hickok and Sally Ovenshine, in the adventurous days of the American West, follows the two lovers from their strange initial meeting through Hickok's violent death

Yolanda is helped out of jail by Christian Commando member Melvin P. Sparks and travels to Columbia to find her long-lost cousin, the king of the Medellin cartel

Patrick Silver is an ex-cop and he once served under the disgraced First Deputy Isaac Sidel. He's been hired as a bodyguard to Jeronimo Guzmann, who have been plaguing Isaac Sidel. Isaac's out for revenge, and he's sure that Patrick can help him. But when Patrick becomes distracted by Odile Guzmann, helping out Isaac is the last thing on his mind.

Eager to find his girlfriend, Fay Abruzzi, who has been secreted away by her district attorney father, former hitman Sidney Holden agrees to come out of retirement and help millionaire Howard Phipps bring down the D.A. Reprint. PW.

Product Description: It is May, 1944. An ordinary sailor named Oliver Beebe, a handsome man with a head full of eyebrows, arrives at the White House to cut the Presidents hair, and quickly, mysteriously, becomes a live-in, full-time companion and confidant to the Chief Executive...read more

The author of numerous books about New York celebrates the personalities and celebrities who made the city famous during the Jazz era, including Mae West, Fanny Brice, Irving Berlin, Legs Diamond, Scott Fitzgerald, Arnold Rothstein, and many others. Reprint.

Sent on a cross-country lecture tour after capturing the FBI's most wanted criminal, New York City Police Commissioner Isaac Sidel returns to the city and finds himself battling criminals, the establishment, and the Christy Mathewson Club

In a beautifully written novel about life in Stalin's Russia, an acting troupe defies Soviet bans to present a production of Shakespeare's King Lear, and the prop manager finds himself thrust into the main role when the actor playing Lear becomes ill. Reprint.

Wealthy television producer Jocko Robinson falls in love with the Hurricane Lady, an ex-model calling herself Inertia, who serves a crime lord from Cologne, and finds himself drawn into a perilous and fantastical world of mayhem, crime, lust, and betrayal as he tries to free her from her dangerous existence. Original.

A compendium of nineteen short stories and novel excerpts explores themes of passion, pain, and joy and includes contributions by some of America's best Jewish writers, including Saul Bellow, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Woody Allen. Original.

Four detective novels include Blue Eyes, which introduces steadfast police inspector Isaac Sidel; Marilyn the Wild, in which Sidel confronts a commissioner's hot-headed daughter; The Education of Patrick Silver, in which a giant Irishman helps Sidel's war with Peruvian pimps; and Secret Isaac, in which Isaac travels to Ireland. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This is a prose series of unpublished interviews with, and a visual retrospective of, the seminal mid- to late-20th century literary crime writer. In 1976, the critic Paul Nelson spent several weeks interviewing his literary hero, legendary detective writer Ross Macdonald...read more