An intense search for missing missionaries, executed bodies hauled from Haulover Inlet, fabled treasure, an ancient relic that carries a curse, and Russian spies.

The definitive guide to identifying flowering plants cultivated and in the wild, Australian and worldwide. This comprehensively updated third edition includes changes to the plant classification system due to advances…

In MIA, the third book in the Matthew Paine Mystery series of classic murder mysteries, join Matthew as he rushes to Miami to search frantically for his colleagues' missing daughter…

This text examines actual attempts to prepare for catastrophes and finds that the policies adopted by corporations and government agencies are fundamentally rhetorical: the plans have no chance to succeed…

This celebration of short stories, poems, and essays gives us a glimpse into the Deaf signing community, something that literature by hearing authors featuring deaf characters has rarely done. Between…

Propelled across the continent by notions of rugged individualism and manifest destiny, pioneer Americans soon discovered that such slogans only partly disguised the fact that building an empire meant destroying…

The Red Badge of Courage found immediate success and brought its author immediate fame. In his introduction to this volume, Lee Clark Mitchell discusses how Crane broke with the conventions…

You may not realize it, but they're out there: impossible shadows, omniscient horrors, and unseen, unknowable entities scattered across the great gulfs of nothingness at the edges of the universe…