Product Description: Here we have a collection of unnerving tales of events that happened--and still do happen--in the collective back yard of the Deep South states. Accompanied by evocative illustrations, these compelling retellings of 40 popular folktales feature supernatural occurrences and ghosts of all sorts, from fiddling ghosts to the story of the Jack o'Lantern...read more

Product Description: IN 1925, the peaceful Milwaukee suburb of Wauwatosa found itself involved in mystery and horror. Eight-year-old Arthur “Buddy” Schumacher Jr. was last seen by three of his friends after they hopped off a freight train they’d jumped to get a ride to a nearby swimming hole...read more

Product Description: The epic story of Thomas Cale—introduced so memorably in The Left Hand of God—continues as the Redeemers use his prodigious gifts to further their sacred goal: the extinction of humankind and the end of the world...To the warrior-monks known as the Redeemers, “the last four things” represent the culmination of a faithful life...read more

Unabridged CDs, 11 CDs, 13 hours Read by TBA Paul Hoffman's novel of astonishing scope and imagination, featuring a darkly gifted teenage boy at the center of a brutal holy war, grabs the reader from its incredible opening lines and refuses to let go.

The author provides an insider's account of the fiercely competitive world of professional chess, describing his own experiences as a troubled child prodigy, marked by his parents' divorce, who spent his weekends in the chess epicenter of Greenwich Village.

Product Description: The Synoptic Concordance is a major research tool for the analysis of the first three Gospels, providing an extensive mass of data that greatly facilitates literary and linguistic examination. The advantages of a concordance are combined with those of a synopsis: each occurrence of a word in the synoptic Gospels, along with a section of text that provides its context, is displayed in three columns...read more

An intriguing study of the early days of aviation offers a close-up profile of Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont who entertained Europe with his airborne acrobatics and antics beginning in 1906 with a small dirigible, in a glimpse into the tormented mind of a talented man, set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century Paris. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

America’s expert on law firm mismanagement is back with a whole new array of humorous committee meetings, memos, speeches, and consultants’ reports that present lawyers acting not like sharks, but rather floundering in a sea of dilemmas. The lawyers at the fictitious firm Fairweather, Winters & Sommers consider the advantages of merging and going virtual, bicker over a firm web site, and in front of a morning talk-show audience, try to understand economics, and scramble to figure out what to do when a big corporate client gets caught being unusually unethical. A sports-mogul client argues for drafting law-school graduates as if they were athletes, and a look into the future finds lawyers trolling outer space for new business. As ever, the firm’s founder, Stanley Fairweather, gets the last, wise word. Imagination and humor drive this law firm send-up, which turns a dull topic into hilarious farce and entertains lawyers while showing them the error of their ways.

Explains the foundations and basic concepts of Perl, and covers topics including CGI, database programming, and Web Services. (view table of contents)

A collection of twenty-seven stories from around the world--including Polynesia, Greece, the British Isles, Scandinavia, and the Middle East--revisits the long forgotten tales of fish-tailed gods who dominate the great oceans, control the seas, and regulate the tides and rains. Simultaneous. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Book by Bird, Roger C., Graber, Robert S., Hoffman, Paul

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Chronicles the life of the Hungarian mathematician who relentlessly traveled the globe in search of intriguing problems (view table of contents)

Product Description: The Synoptic Concordance is a major research tool for the analysis of the first three Gospels, providing an extensive mass of data that greatly facilitates literary and linguistic examination. The advantages of a concordance are combined with those of a synopsis: each occurrence of a word in the synoptic Gospels, along with a section of text that provides its context, is displayed in three columns...read more

Discusses finding information, downloading files, sending and receiving e-mail, and building Web pages (view table of contents)

A comprehensive and accessible chronicle of the career of the mathematical genius Paul Erdos explains the mathematical discoveries of this Hungarian eccentric, who was utterly stymied by many of life's most basic aspects, discussing his strange and obsessive personal life. Reprint. 35,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Explains which renovations will increase the value of a home, offers advice on financing and contractor selection, and tells how to enhance the exterior of a property