Exoarchaeologist Evan McElroy has made a discovery about a long-extinct alien race. But his sponsors realize they can make huge gains if the new findings are kept completely secret. Step one of their plan is to kill the entire research team - starting with Evan.As Evan flees for his life, his trajectory awakens a long-buried struggle. The Infoterrorists, who believe all ideas are screaming to be free, have waited years for the right moment to take on the seven great families that c...

Danger reigns supreme as Nazi Germany braces for a final showdown in this WWII thriller from the author of the Billy Boyle mysteries.On Desperate Ground is the story of men and women caught up in the death throes of Nazi Germany, struggling to maintain those things precious to them—life, an end to killing, and even sanity itself. Colonel Johann Faust has lost everyone he ever loved and feels he is going inexorably insane. He hears the haunting voice of his...

This "very absorbing look at technological catastrophes and why they happen"explores systemic breakdowns behind disasters from Chernobyl to the Challenger ( Booklist).Inviting Disaster delves into over fifty of history's worst catastrophes in order to show how increasingly "smart" systems leave us wide open to human tragedy. Weaving a dramatic narrative that explains how breakdowns in these systems result in...

The starvation caused by the potato famine in Ireland resulted in a huge immigration of Irish to the United States, primarily to New York City. They settled in the lower slums of Manhattan, and by their sheer numbers overran the lower east side. Poor, uneducated, and unskilled, the Irish lived in the most depressed area of the city. The Irish youth joined the famed Five-Pointers gang, which terrorized the Lower East Side with burglaries, stickups, robberies, and occasional battles with the...

An accessible explanation of Kurt Gödel's groundbreaking work in mathematical logic: " An excellent nontechnical account." — Bulletin of the American Mathematical SocietyIn 1931 Kurt Gödel published his fundamental paper, "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems." This revolutionary paper challenged certain basic assumptions underlying much research in mathematics and logic. Gödel received public r...

England in 1714, with the Jacobites waiting: a young man with a name he cannot use, a highwayman who is a gentleman, a smuggler's coast and a plot that reaches to the throne. James was Historiographer Royal to William IV and later British consul in Massachusetts, and wrote over a hundred novels — enough for Thackeray to parody him affectionately. The Jacobite politics here are exact.

England under Henry III, with the barons in revolt, an outlaw band in Sherwood, and a knight caught between the two. James wrote more than a hundred novels, was made Historiographer Royal by William IV and ended his life as a British consul; here he sets his romance in the reign that produced the Robin Hood legends and treats them as history in the making.

On the first day of Father Frank's vacation, a man says to him, "I'm gonna kill you."When the threat of violence covers another person, Father Frank knows something must be done. But because the threat came via the confessional, he can't tell the police. He can't even tell the other person who is in jeopardy. Father Frank is on his own.To make matters worse, this happens in Magnolia Bluff, a place Father Frank has just come to visit. He doesn't know the people; doesn't know...

New York Times bestsellerThe former Director of National Intelligence's candid and compelling account of the intelligence community's successes--and failures--in facing some of the greatest threats to AmericaWhen he stepped down in January 2017 as the fourth United States director of national intelligence, James Clapper had been President Obama's senior intelligence adviser for six and a half years, longer than his three predecessors combined. He l...

**The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the extraordinary things that can happen when we harness the power of both the brain and the heart“It’s Doty’s ability to describe his journey so lyrically, and then his willingness to share his methods, that make this book a gem.”—Abraham Verghese, MD, author of Cutting for Stone**Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed a...

Gingers and Wry is frequently hilarious, occasionally poignant, and consistently honest—sometimes, brutally so.This book is a collection of quips and comments, originally posted online, threaded together by a narrative that describes four years in the author's life as he moves from being laid off, and into his new role as a stay@home Dad for twin boys.It humorously documents the challenges and rewards of raising two tenacious toddlers and an opinionated teenaged daughter, a...

Challenging the conventional wisdom surrounding high oil prices, this compelling argument sheds an entirely new light on free-market industry fundamentals. By deciphering past, present, and future geopolitical events, it makes the case that oil pricing and availability have a long history of being employed as economic weapons by the United States. Despite ample world supplies and reserves, high prices are now being used to try to rein in China—a reverse of the low-price strategy used in th...