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Learning iPad Programming: A Hands-On Guide to Building iPad Apps, 2/e

by Kirby Turner & Tom Harrington

“Not many books have a single project that lives and evolves through the entire narrative. The reason not many books do this is because it is difficult to do well. Important toolkit features get shoehorned...

The Call of Everest: The History, Science, and Future of the World's Tallest Peak

by Conrad Anker, Bernadette McDonald & Thomas Hornbein

Gripping and sumptuous, this is the definitive book on the history, mystique, and science of Mount Everest, including how climate change is impacting the world's tallest mountain. 

In 1963, the American Mount...

Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress

by Olympia Snowe

A spirited call to action by Olympia J. Snowe, the iconic moderate and three-term Republican senator from Maine

Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience

by Adrian Johnston & Catherine Malabou

Adrian Johnston and Catherine Malabou defy theoretical humanities’ deeply-entrenched resistance to engagements with the life sciences. Rather than treat biology and its branches as hopelessly reductive and...

For God, Country, and Coca-Cola

by Mark Pendergrast

Now fully updated, the classic account of how a bottle of sweetened caramel-colored soda water became synonymous with American capitalism

Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center

by Ray Monk

Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis in the race to develop the first atomic bomb—a...

The Savior Generals: How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost-From Ancient Greece to Iraq

by Victor Davis Hanson

Leading military historian Victor Davis Hanson returns to non-fiction in The Savior Generals, a set of brilliantly executed pocket biographies of five generals who single-handedly saved their nations from defeat...

Fossil Mammals of Asia: Neogene Biostratigraphy and Chronology

by Xiaoming Wang

The first textbook devoted to the late Cenozoic (Neogene) mammalian biostratigraphy and geochronology of Asia, this volume deploys cutting edge biostratigraphical and geochemical dating methods to map the emergence...

Jewelweed: A Novel

by David Rhodes

When David Rhodes burst onto the American literary scene in the '70s, he was hailed as “a brilliant visionary” (John Gardner). In Driftless, his “most accomplished work yet” (Joseph Kanon), Rhodes made...

The Guns at Last Light

World War II Liberation Trilogy #3

by Rick Atkinson

The magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson’s acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe during World War II

It is the twentieth century’s unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United...

Sign of the Cross

Spike Sanguinetti #2

by Thomas Mogford

Just as a degree of calm returns to Spike Sanguinetti's life in Gibraltar, he receives the shocking news that his Maltese uncle and aunt are dead after a domestic dispute escalated into a blood-soaked murder-suicide....

Art Smith's Healthy Comfort

by Art Smith

Chef Art Smith puts the power of healthy living within your reach with these delicious dishes. Discover some of the great recipes he created on his journey to health and wellness, and then prepared for his celebrity...

Saving Normal

by Allen Frances

From "the most powerful psychiatrist in America" (New York Times) and "the man who wrote the book on mental illness" (Wired), a deeply fascinating and urgently important critique of the widespread medicalization...

Anyone Who Had a Heart

by Burt Bacharach

One of the greatest songwriters of all time offers a frank and riveting account of his life and the stories behind the hits.

Over the past six decades, Burt Bacharach's legendary songwriting has touched millions...

Louder Than Hell

by Jon Wiederhorn & Katherine Turman

From Sabbath to Slipknot, Louder Than Hell is the definitive oral history of heavy metal, straight from the mouths of those who defined it. The book was crafted from more than four hundred interviews conducted...

The Construction of Social Judgments

by Leonard L. Martin & Abraham Tesser

Researchers have been addressing social judgment from a cognitive perspective for more than 15 years. Within recent years, however, it has become increasingly clear that many of the models and assumptions initially...

Cognitive Neuroscience of Consciousness: A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuroscience

by Anil Seth & Geraint Rees

How do conscious experience, subjectivity, and free will arise from the brain and the body? Even in the late 20th century, consciousness was considered to be beyond the reach of science. Now, understanding the...

Emotional States, Attention, and Working Memory: A Special Issue of Cognition & Emotion

by Nazanin Derakhshan & Michael Eysenck

This Special Issue is concerned with the effects of three emotional states (positive affect; anxiety; and depression) on performance. More specifically, the contributors focus on the potential mediating effects...

Memory and Amnesia: An Introduction

by Alan J. Parkin

Memory and Amnesia provides a clear and comprehensive account of amnesia set in the context of our understanding of how normal memory operates. Part I provides the reader with an up-to-date survey of contemporary...

The Uncertain Mind: Individual Differences in Facing the Unknown

by Richard M. Sorrentino & Christopher J.R. Roney

This book discusses individual differences in how people react to uncertainty. The authors show that while some people are relatively comfortable dealing with uncertainty and strive to resolve it (uncertainty-oriented),...