The Noughts & Crosses series is set in a world where the people with black skin (Crosses) are dominant over the white people (noughts). The title is a reference to the game known in Britain as "noughts and crosses" and in the United States as "tic ta...

WPF Succinctly is for software developers with an understanding of the .NET Framework who have yet to dive into WPF. Author Buddy James approaches the platform at its simplest point—single-window applications that contain a single control—and gradual...

Marc Maron is “a master of spinning humor out of anguish” (Bookforum), even when that anguish is pretty clearly self-inflicted. In Attempting Normal, he threads together twenty-five stories from his life and near-death, from his first comedy road tri...

The Day of the Beast is the story of Daren Lane and hundreds of thousands like him in the years immediately after the conclusion of WWI, disabled soldiers returning home to an America that simply didnt want to be reminded of what just took place. His...

Misaki, struggling to pass his college entrance exams, is in need of a tutor to help pump up his failing grades. Unfortunately, his only option is the cool and sexy Akihiko Usami. Usami happens to be a famous boys' love novelist, which doesn't exactl...

In the universally acclaimed and award-winning The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier reveals that fifty failed states--home to the poorest one billion people on Earth--pose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty-first century. The boo...