Author: Michio Kaku
Publisher: Doubleday
Keywords: fields, teleportation, time, travel, force, phasers, impossible, scientific, exploration, world, physics
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-03-11
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0385520697
ISBN-13: 9780385520690

A fascinating exploration of the science of the impossible—from death rays and force fields to invisibility cloaks—revealing to what extent such technologies might be achievable decades or millennia into the future.One hundred years ago, scientists would have said that lasers, televisions, and the atomic bomb were beyond the realm of physical possibility. In Physics of the Impossible, the renowned physicist Michio Kaku explores to what extent the technologies and devices of science fiction that are deemed equally impossible today might well become commonplace in the future. From te

Author: John Grisham
Publisher: Doubleday
Keywords: summons
Number of Pages: 245
Published: 2002-02-05
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0385503822
ISBN-13: 9780385503822

Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the University of Virginia. He’s forty-three, newly single, and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. He has a younger brother, Forrest, who redefines the notion of a family’s black sheep.And he has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi. He is known to all as Judge Atlee, a beloved and powerful official who has towered over local law and politics for forty years. No longer on the bench, the Judge has withdrawn to the Atlee mansion and become a recluse.With the end in sight, Judg

Author: Arthur Hailey
Publisher: DoubleDay
Keywords: diagnosis, final
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 1969-06
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0385035888
ISBN-13: 9780385035880

Author: Bill Press
Publisher: Doubleday
Keywords: right, wrong, politics, faith, religious, stole, christmas, republicans
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-10-11
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0385516053
ISBN-13: 9780385516051

In the wake of an election seen by many as a triumphant victory for “moral values,” political commentator and one-time seminarian Bill Press launches a counteroffensive against the so-called religious right.For decades, Press argues, conservative preachers such as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and James Dobson—joined by most Catholic bishops—have defined religion so narrowly that Democrats and liberals have been pushed outside the fold. According to their narrow gospel, God put George Bush in the White House to deal with gays, guns, and abortion—and those who don&

Author: Dan Brown
Publisher: Doubleday
Keywords: code, vinci
Number of Pages: 454
Published: 2003-03-18
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0385504209
ISBN-13: 9780385504201

While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci -- clues visible for all to see -- yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion -- an actual secret societ

Author: John Grisham
Publisher: Doubleday
Keywords: associate
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2009-01-27
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0385517831
ISBN-13: 9780385517836

If you thought Mitch McDeere was in trouble in The Firm, waituntil you meet Kyle McAvoy, The AssociateKyle McAvoy grew up in his father’s small-town law office in York, Pennsylvania. He excelled in college, was elected editor-in-chief of The Yale Law Journal, and his future has limitless potential. But Kyle has a secret, a dark one, an episode from college that he has tried to forget. The secret, though, falls into the hands of the wrong people, and Kyle is forced to take a job he doesn’t want—even though it’s a job most law students can only dream about.Three months af

Author: Michael Brooks
Publisher: Doubleday
Keywords: mysteries, time, scientific, baffling, don, sense, things
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-08-12
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0385520689
ISBN-13: 9780385520683

Spanning disciplines from biology to cosmology, chemistry to psychology to physics, Michael Brooks thrillingly captures the excitement of scientific discovery.Science’s best-kept secret is this: even today, thereare experimental results that the most brilliant scientists cannot explain. In the past, similar “anomalies” have revolutionized our world. If history is any precedent, we should look to today’s inexplicable results to forecast the future of science. Michael Brooks heads to the scientific frontier to confront thirteen modern-day anomalies and what they might rev