Ben: 3397 books

Who says you have to travel far from home to go on a great hike? In Best Hikes Near New York author Ben Keene details the best hikes within an hour's drive of the New York metro area perfect for the urban and suburbanite hard-pressed to find great outdoor activities close to home. Each featured hike...

Well-Being and Death addresses philosophical questions about death and the good life: what makes a life go well? Is death bad for the one who dies? How is this possible if we go out of existence when we die? Is it worse to die as an infant or as a young adult? Is it bad for animals and fetuses to...

In British Columbia by the Road, Ben Bradley takes readers on an unprecedented journey through the history of roads, highways, and motoring in British Columbia’s Interior, a remote landscape composed of plateaus and interlocking valleys, soaring mountains and treacherous passes. Challenging...

“Ben Spivey’s Black God is a surreal dreamscape of a book. To borrow from the book itself, ‘There’s something black in that place like it was untouched by God himself . . . Or herself.’ At its claustrophobic core, this book is a love story about time and memory, fear and death. At its dreamlike...

The Film Studio sheds new light on the evolution of global film production, highlighting the role of film studios worldwide. The authors explore the contemporary international production environment, alleging that global competition is best understood as an unequal and unstable partnership between...

Water is essential to every bodily function, but not all water is equal. Given all the hype, it’s hard to choose from among the staggering array of bottled beverages, yet beyond all the advertising is a clear liquid that can restore your health. In Healing Waters, Dr. Ben Johnson guides you to oxygen-rich...

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Studio Techniques has been completely updated to cover the new features in CS4. In a friendly, easy-going style that's long on information and short on techno-babble, Photoshop Hall-of-Famer Ben Willmore and photographer Dan Ablan guide you through the concepts and features that will...

Terrorism, surveillance, water rationing, nuns, drugs, and reality TV: For Zilch, it's all just another week in San Francisco, as the ex-drug dealer is forced back into the criminal underground she thought she'd escaped for good.

In this collection of five stories set in San Francisco, the supernatural intrudes, the best-laid plans never turn out as hoped, and characters struggle to stay sane.

My dream came true. I hated it. I was a regular woman with a crappy job, a crappy apartment and a boring, unfulfilling life. Obviously, I dreamed of being taken on an exciting adventure by a hot guy. Then I met Bryan, and exactly that happened.  He’s hot, quite decent...

t’s the end of the world as they know it! The planet Darklands doesn’t know this yet, but their days are numbered. Life as they know it is about to come to a violent end and they are not prepared for the battle that is about to take place.  

Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine. All the stories from the month, plus author biographies, interviews, and story origins. Table of Contents Snow Queen – T. R. North Business as Usual – N. R. Lambert Be Prepared to Shoot the Nanny – Rachel Kolar The Snow Queen’s Daughter – Sean R. Robinson Cover art by Ben Bronstein.

When the Tenbor Dish Valley loses its protector, Tench must navigate the treacherous alternate reality of the Verch in order to restore his home.

100 snapshots of the world's most amazing, dreadful and utterly bizarre restaurant names "What's in a name?" -William Shakespeare (foodie) For too long, restaurants have been judged on the quality of their food. In some parts of the world, chefs have been known to waste literally...