Product Description: From the acclaimed author of A Short History of a Small Place and Seaworthy comes a wholesale departure -- a comic/horror/romance/fantasy infested with both unsavory American politicians and venomous Venetian lizards. Awash in Pearson's singular wit, Red Scare tells the headlong story of a public school biology teacher and a National Gallery curator who join forces to thwart the dire consequences of a medieval Italian curse...read more

A fitness pioneer and ALS patient documents his creation of a new model for private medical research and development for less common and less profitable diseases, describing how his entrepreneurial partnership with the Muscular Dystrophy Association enabled significant results in its first two years.