"The hints of an impending environmental crisis appeared as early as the 1570s, as winters grew colder and crops diminished. By the turn of the seventeenth century, the temperature had plummeted so drastically that Mediterranean harbors were covered with ice, birds were dropping frozen out of the sky, and enterprising Londoners erected semipermanent frost fairs on a frozen Thames--with bustling kiosks, taverns, and even brothels. Chronicling the dramatic...

"When the US Constitution won popular approval in 1788, it was the culmination of thirty years of passionate argument about legal and political first principles--a furious debate over the nature of government and the rights of Americans that had boiled over into revolution. But ratification hardly ended the conversation. For the next half century, both ordinary Americans and towering statesmen including George Washington, James Madison, Alexander...

"Drinking, smoking, drugs, food, gambling, web-surfing, sex: to break free of any addiction, willpower alone rarely works. The key, Doctors Daniel Amen and David E. Smith have found, lies in understanding your brain's specific needs--and then fulfilling them. With Unchain Your Brain, these two renowned brain and addiction experts show us how. Based on their bestselling book, this audio course offers its breakthrough program based on their pioneering...

From the New York Times bestselling author Darynda Jones comes the second novel in her laugh-out-loud Sunshine Vicram mystery series, A Good Day for Chardonnay.Running a small-town police force in the mountains of New Mexico should be a smooth, carefree kind of job. Sadly, full-time Sheriffand even fuller-time coffee guzzlerSunshine Vicram, didnt get that memo.All Sunshine really wants is one easy-going day. You know, the kind that starts with coffee...

"They surged into Washington by the tens of thousands in the spring of 1971. Fiery radicals, flower children, and militant vets gathered for the most audacious act in a years-long movement to end Americas war in Vietnam: a blockade of the nations capital. And the White House, headed by an increasingly paranoid Richard Nixon, was determined to stop it. Longtime Washington journalist Lawrence Roberts, drawing on dozens of interviews, unexplored public...