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The Peripheral

The New York Times bestselling author of Neuromancer and Agency presents a fast-paced sci-fi thriller that takes a terrifying look into the future… Flynne Fisher lives down a country road, in a rural America where jobs are scarce, unless you count illegal drug manufacture, which she’s trying to avoid. Her brother Burton lives on money…

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The Peripheral

The New York Times bestselling author of Neuromancer and Agency presents a fast-paced sci-fi thriller that takes a terrifying look into the future… Flynne Fisher lives down a country road, in a rural America where jobs are scarce, unless you count illegal drug manufacture, which she’s trying to avoid. Her brother Burton lives on money…

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Twelve Years a Slave (Norton Critical Editions)

This Norton Critical Edition of Solomon Northup’s harrowing autobiography is based on the 1853 first edition. It is accompanied by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Kevin Burke’s introduction and detailed explanatory footnotes. The Norton Critical Edition also includes: · The illustrations printed in the original book. · Contemporary sources (1853—62), among them newspaper accounts of…

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The dream of Eugene Aram

The dream of Eugene Aram GBS_insertEmbeddedViewer(“iKUMAAAAYAAJ”, 500,400);

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Goodbye to Berlin

Goodbye to Berlin GBS_insertEmbeddedViewer(“hQElSwAACAAJ”, 500,400);

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Cat's Cradle

A young writer decides to interview the children of a scientist primarily responsible for the creation of the atomic bomb GBS_insertEmbeddedViewer(“7sxvDwAAQBAJ”, 500,400);

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The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media

The study of what is collectively labeled “New Media”—the cultural and artistic practices made possible by digital technology—has become one of the most vibrant areas of scholarly activity and is rapidly turning into an established academic field, with many universities now offering it as a major. The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media is the…

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Assassin's Creed

Who is Jot Soora? Devoted fiance of movie star Monima Das, gifted programmer at software giant MysoreTech, or deadly Assassin with a secret? When Jot stumbles into a layer of code deep in his company’s new device, the discovery threatens his relationship, his job, and his life. It also reveals shocking links to an ancestral…

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Harley Loco

Documents the experiences of a Syrian immigrant who spent her formative years in Detroit, where she struggled with school bullies and her family traditions before becoming a New York City hair stylist at the height of the punk movement, succumbing to drug addiction and eventually embracing a clean life of peace and redemption. GBS_insertEmbeddedViewer(“aF6JDQAAQBAJ”, 500,400);

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The Stag and Hen Weekend

The Stag and Hen Weekend is the story of Phil and Helen, a couple in their thirties about to commit their lives to one another . . . that is of course if they can just manage to get through their respective stag and hen weekends (his: Amsterdam; hers: a country house and day spa…

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