Steven: 5874 books

The first seven of Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos fantasy novels have long been in print from Ace Books in a set of three trade paperback omnibuses. Now Tor, publisher of the series from book eight on, continues the series of omnibuses with The Book of Dragon, which includes Dragon and Issola. In...

The Smithsonian Institution has been America's museum since 1846. What do its vast collections -- from the ruby slippers to a piece of Plymouth Rock, first ladies' gowns to patchwork quilts, a Model T Ford to a customized Ford LTD low rider -- tell Americans about themselves? In this lavishly illustrated...

Reveals the existence of a Templar colony in the New World and how the explorer Verrazano, also a member of a secret society, attempted to reestablish contact with it • Explores Columbus’s connection to Henry Sinclair’s maps of the New World • Examines the secret alliance of...

Music videos today sample and rework a century’s worth of movies and other pop culture artifacts to offer a plethora of visions and sounds that we have never encountered before.    As these videos have proliferated online, they have become more widely accessible than ever before. In Digital Music...

“Those who say that we’re in a time when there are no heroes, they just don’t know where to look.” –President Ronald Reagan, January 20, 1981 Hero. It was a word most Americans weren’t using much in 1980. As they waited on gas and unemployment lines, as their enemies abroad grew...

Naval historian Steven Maffeo has used the fiction format to give us what will probably be the finest, truest account ever of the 1812 sea battle between Constitution and Java -- in which the young American Navy demonstrated the confidence, pride, and professionalism that have served it well for...

Born in Chicago in 1918, the prodigiously gifted and erudite Isaac Rosenfeld was anointed a “genius” upon the publication of his “luminescent” novel, Passage from Home and was expected to surpass even his closest friend and rival, Saul Bellow. Yet when felled by a heart attack at the age of thirty-eight,...

Is the march of history a random string of events as the history books teach us, or do the hidden hands of secret societies manipulate political events like war and assassination? Drawing on over thirty years as an investigative reporter, the author reflects on many of the biggest conspiracies of our time, and shows how secret societies have played crucial roles in history.

"Beneath the surface [of our society]," writes historian Robert Wistrich, are "ancient myths, dark hatreds, and irrational fantasies [that] continue to nourish antisemitism." But the larger question has to do with why we are so prone to believe them. To that end, Steven K. Baum has an answer. In this...

An incisive biography of the guiding intellectual presence - and chief internal critic - of Zionism, during the movement's formative years between the 1880s and the 1920s. Ahad Ha'am ('One of the People') was the pen name of Asher Ginzberg (1856-1927), a Russian Jew whose life intersected nearly every...

Oh no, another book on love? But this is different. This is for people who are looking for a gritty account of life, love and the dilemmas of human existence. This is for twenty first century thinkers and lovers, from searching Christians to open minded agnostics and willing atheists who want a genuine...

This is my 3rd and final book called the recovery and covers the start of a new life free from abuse and how i managed to do it. How i conquered mental illness completely and how i am alive and very healthy and living the life i have always wanted. It covers what needs to change to make things better...

**“In poetic prose . . . Nightingale’s intimate reflections and succulent style present a textured picture of the city and its people, culture, and antiquity.” —**Publishers Weekly Granada resident Steven Nightingale excavates the rich past of his adopted city and its surrounding countryside,...

Love is the only true emotion we have. It controls your perceptions, your actions, and your feelings. It gives and takes away hope. It breeds joy and sorrow. And it ignites the flames of passion and can leave you in the fire of anger. The loss of love can leave you defeated, empty, and hurt, but Sometimes Love Heals. Steven L. Hiller leads you into both worlds.