Non-Fiction

The Guide to Getting In

by Harvard Student Agencies, Inc.

Getting into a college can be the most stressful ordeal a student can face, with endless planning, test-taking, competition, the torturous wait for an answer. . . .

Now six undergraduates at Harvard reveal the...

Bartending 101

by Harvard Student Agencies, Inc.

The Essential Bartending Crash Course

Do you know how to set up a full bar for that party you're having? How much vermouth to use when your first guest requests a "dry martini on the rocks?" How to measure out...

The Only Buddha in Town

by Alanna Maure & Matt Benacquista

The Only Buddha in Town is for the person looking for an inspiring good laugh, or a quick pick-me-up, all in under an hour. If you're an avid reader, fifteen minutes! If at times you feel like you're alone in...

Wide Rivers Crossed: The South Platte and the Illinois of the American Prairie

by Ellen Wohl

"In Wide Rivers Crossed, Ellen Wohl tells the stories of two rivers—the South Platte on the western plains and the Illinois on the eastern—to represent the environmental history and historical transformation...

An Introduction to the Ajanta Caves: With Examples of Six Caves

by Rajesh Singh

This book is designed for students, educators, libraries, and general readers with keen interest in the subject of Indian or South Asian art, architecture, history, and culture. It is work of the author's fifteen...

Brand New Church: The Church and the postmodern condition

by Graeme Fancourt

Brand New Church? aims to make sense of what ‘postmodern’ actually looks and feels like in real life, and to ask what this means for the church. Over the past few years, Graeme Fancourt has travelled around...

Caribbean Cookery Secrets: How to Cook 100 of the Most Popular West Indian, Cajun and Creole Dishes

by David Daley & Gwendolyn Daley

Discover the secrets of Caribbean cooking: the methods and ingredients needed to create that authentic Caribbean taste. Embark on a journey around the different islands of the Caribbean and find out how to make...

Telling Tales in Latin: A New Latin Course and Storybook for Children

by Lorna Robinson & Soham De

Telling Tales in Latin teaches Latin through the magic of storytelling. Narrated by the chatty and imaginative Roman poet Ovid (who lived in the Rome of the first century B.C), this new course takes young learners...

Steaming to Victory: How Britain's Railways Won the War

by Michael Williams

In the seven decades since the darkest moments of the Second World War it seems every tenebrous corner of the conflict has been laid bare, prodded and examined from every perspective of military and social history....

Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Lookingat Animals in America

by Jon Mooallem

Journalist Jon Mooallem has watched his little daughter's world overflow with animals butterfly pajamas, appliquéd owls-while the actual world she's inheriting slides into a great storm of extinction. Half...

Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders

by David Marquet

"Leadership should mean giving control rather than taking control and creating leaders rather than forging followers."

David Marquet, an experienced Navy officer, was used to giving orders. As newly appointed...

Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood

by Drew Magary

A sharp, funny, and heartfelt memoir about fatherhood and the ups and downs of raising a family in modern America

No one writes about family quite like Drew Magary. The GQ correspondent and Deadspin columnist's...

She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me

by Emma Brockes

"Quite simply an extraordinary book... it's basically the perfect memoir: a riveting, authentic tale elegantly told." --Sunday Telegraph (UK)

A chilling work of psychological suspense and forensic memoir, She...

A Dog Walks Into a Nursing Home: Lessons in the Good Life from an Unlikely Teacher

by Sue Halpern

A layabout mutt turned therapy dog leads her owner to a new understanding of the good life.

At loose ends with her daughter leaving home and her husband on the road, Sue Halpern decided to give herself and Pransky,...

The Cult of Violence

by John Pearson

John Pearson knows more about the Krays than anyone alive. The Krays film was based on his book The Profession of Violence and it was Pearson who exposed the Boothby connection in 1994. In 1967 the twins asked...

Understanding Computation: Impossible Code and the Meaning of Programs

by Tom Stuart

Finally, you can learn computation theory and programming language design in an engaging, practical way. Understanding Computation explains theoretical computer science in a context you’ll recognize, helping...

The Song of Life Healing Matrix

by Kim Michaels

Every day we experience situations where we are exposed to uncertainties, mental or emotional disturbances, positive or negative stress. Everything we go through leaves a mark on our personal story. Some are...

The Extraordinary Power of Project Relationships

by Harry Mingail

Bad business one-on-one or group relationships create stress, destruction and unproductively. Likewise, without great relationships, our personal lives can be empty, boring and lonely.

This book is packed with...

2013 Field Guide to Financial Planning

by CLU Michael E. Kitces & CLU D. M. Donald F. Cady

The 2013 Edition of Field Guide to Financial Planning is the sales strategy tool that no financial planner should go without.

Field Guide to Financial Planning offers step-by-step solutions to hundreds of planning...

Utah's National Parks: Hiking Camping and Vacationing in Utahs Canyon Country

by Ron Adkison

Discover soaring sandstone cliffs, ancient rock-art, sun-baked desert, and open woodlands of pinyon and juniper. Up-to-date trail and campground information are featured in this second edition and 124 different...