Mars and Venus in the Bedroom: A Guide to Lasting Romance and Passion
Can you keep the fires of passion burning?Men and women have very different physical needs. But Dr. John Gray explains how both can make small but important adjustments in their attitudes, schedules, and techniques so that their partners are happy in the bedroom — and outside of it.Written with the understanding and unique insight that can come only …
Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. The effects of the immense waves were felt as far away as France. Barometers in Bogotá and Washington, D.C., went haywire. …
“A lost world, man-eating tribesmen, lush andimpenetrable jungles, stranded American fliers (one of them a dame withgreat gams, for heaven’s sake), a startling rescue mission. . . . This is atrue story made in heaven for a writer as talented as Mitchell Zuckoff. Whew—what an utterly compelling and deeplysatisfying read!” —Simon Winchester, author of Atlantic Award-winning former Boston Globe …
Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation
In Like Dreamers, acclaimed journalist Yossi Klein Halevi interweaves the stories of a group of 1967 paratroopers who reunited Jerusalem, tracing the history of Israel and the divergent ideologies shaping it from the Six-Day War to the present.Following the lives of seven young members from the 55th Paratroopers Reserve Brigade, the unit responsible for restoring Jewish sovereignty to …
What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East
For centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement — the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief from which there was nothing to learn or to fear. And then everything changed. …
The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone–Especially Ourselves
Dan Ariely, behavioral economist and the New York Times bestselling author of The Upside of Irrationality and Predictably Irrational, examines the contradictory forces that drive us to cheat and keep us honest, in this groundbreaking look at the way we behave: The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty.From ticket-fixing in our police departments to test-score scandals in our schools, from …
Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived
Spanning seven decades and three continents, Modoc is one of the most amazing true animal stories ever told. Raised together in a small German circus town, a boy and an elephant formed a bond that would last their entire lives, and would be tested time and again; through a near-fatal shipwreck in the Indian Ocean, an apprenticeship with …
Why Don’t Cats Like to Swim?: An Imponderables Book (Imponderables Series)
Why does an “X” stand for a kiss?Which fruits are in Juicy Fruit® gum?Why do people cry at happy endings?Why do you never see baby pigeons?Pop-culture guru David Feldman demystifies these topics and so much more in Why Don’t Cats Like to Swim? — the unchallenged source of answers to civilization’s most perplexing questions. Part of the Imponderables® …
Ponder, if you willWhat happens to your Social Security number when you die?Why are peanuts listed as an ingredient in plain M&Ms?Why is Barbie’s hair made out of nylon, but Ken’s hair is plastic?What makes up the ever-mysterious “new-car smell”?Pop-culture guru David Feldman demystifies these topics and so much more in Do Penguins Have Knees? — the unchallenged …
When Do Fish Sleep? : An Imponderables Book (Imponderables Books)
Ponder, if you will …Why are tennis balls fuzzy? How come birds don’t tip over when they sleep on telephone wires?What makes yawning contagious?Why, oh why, do roosters have to crow so early in the morning?Pop-culture guru David Feldman demystifies these topics and so much more in When Do Fish Sleep? — the unchallenged source of answers to …