Hardcover Nonfiction

by C. David Heymann · Lyle Stuart

by Robert Fulghum · Villard

by David Halberstam · Morrow

by Gilda Radner · Simon & Schuster

by Bill Cosby · Doubleday

by Russell Baker · Morrow

by Pat Hackett · Warner

by Stephen W. Hawking · Bantam

Stephen Hawking has earned a reputation as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein. In this landmark volume, Professor Hawking shares his blazing intellect with nonscientists everywhere, guiding us expertly to confront the supreme questions of the nature of time and the universe. Was there a beginning of time? Will there be an end? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries? From Galileo and Newton to modern astrophysics, from the breathtakingly cast to the extraordinarily tiny, Professor Hawking leads us on an exhilarating journey to distant galaxies, black holes, alternate dimensions--as close as man has ever ventured to the mind of God. From the vantage point of the wheelchair from which he has spent more than twenty years trapped by Lou Gehrig's disease, Stephen Hawking has transformed our view of the universe. Cogently explained, passionately revealed, "A Brief History of Time is the story of the ultimate quest for knowledge: the ongoing search for the tantalizing secrets at the heart of time and space.

by Patrick F. McManus · Holt

"McManus here offers another bag of whimsy in the Great Outdoors.... A text light enough to keep in your backpack, even if you forget the compass." -Kirkus Reviews

by David H. Hackworth and Julie Sherman · Simon & Schuster

by Leo Buscaglia · Slack

While relating specific events which he remembers about his own father, Leo Buscaglia has written this book "in celebration of all fathers." Readers are reminded that seemingly ordinary events can forever remind us of a cherished family member. This book reached #7 on the New York Times Best Seller list.

by Lois Wyse · Crown

Chronicles the experiences of the modern-day grandmother, offering advice on how to help parenting children, when to butt in and out of their affairs, and tips on careers and family life

by Simon Schama · Knopf

Considers the fullest resources of social, cultural, and political history and includes accounts of private and public lives to help see the reality of the revolution.

by John Allen Paulos · Hill & Wang

This New York Times bestseller shows how understanding probability and statistics can change your life: "Brief, witty, and full of practical applications." — Time Magazine Why do even well-educated people understand so little about mathematics? And what are the costs of our innumeracy? John Allen Paulos argues that our inability to deal rationally with very large numbers and the probabilities associated with them results in misinformed governmental policies, confused personal decisions, and an increased susceptibility to pseudoscience of all kinds. Innumeracy lets us know what we're missing, and how to do something about it. Sprinkling his discussion of numbers and probabilities with quirky stories and anecdotes, Paulos ranges freely over many aspects of modern life, from contested elections to sports stats, from stock scams and newspaper psychics to diet and medical claims, sex discrimination, insurance, lotteries, and drug testing. Readers of Innumeracy will be rewarded with scores of astonishing facts, a fistful of powerful ideas, and, most important, a clearer, more quantitative way of looking at their world. "This admirable little book [can be read] in two hours. Chances are that they could be among the most enlightening and even profitable 120 minutes you ever spent." — Chicago Sun-Times "Like carrying on a conversation with an engaging, articulate math whiz who easily shifts from the profound to the funny." — Business Week "Paulos makes numbers, probability, and statistics perform like so many trained seals for the reader's entertainment." — Chicago Tribune

by George F. Kennan · Pantheon

The author of "The Fateful Alliance" examines his own life and that of the European community, recalling his visits to Europe at such momentous