In addition to evaluating overall design, performance and layout, this book, like no other, analyses how and how well the boats are built.

In an idyllic community of wealthy California families, new teacher Molly Nicoll becomes intrigued by the hidden lives of her privileged students.

Her heartbroken parents were left devastated by the loss. But there is more to the story, and Kate is drawn—house by house—into the pasts of the people who once lived in this neighborhood that has given up its greatest mystery.

This indispensable reference contains over 45,000 U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard abbreviations as well as U.S. Air Force and Army terms in everyday use in Navy programs.

A treasure trove for fans and an invaluable source for future scholarship, this book includes the Pynchon Playlist, a catalog of over 900 musical references in Pynchon's oeuvre, and an exhaustive index of more than 700 appearances of ...

Thirteen teenagers relate their experiences with drugs and describe the different treatments that helped them "kick the habit."