Walter: 4352 books

Peter Heck "Williams' longest, most densely realized and successful book to date." Roland Green "This is a novel that works marvelously on a variety of levels-- as an adventure story, a trek through personal entanglements, a study in detailed police techniques and an enlightening...

What are the roots of creativity? What makes for great leadership? How do influential people end up rippling the surface of history? In this collection of essays, Walter Isaacson reflects on the lessons to be learned from Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Ronald...

Si tu pareja te ignora, te vigila, te hace daño o te miente… ¿por qué seguir con ella? ¿Por qué soportar una relación que te hace sufrir? Aquí te va una verdad dolorosa: El amor no es suficiente para mantener unida a una pareja. Y, en algunos casos, aquello que tú consideras...

From the bestselling author of Day of Infamy: In the bloodiest island combat of WWII, one group of men kept watch from behind Japanese lines. The Solomon Islands was where the Allied war machine finally broke the Japanese empire. As pilots, marines, and sailors fought for supremacy in Guadalcanal,...

The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Miracle of Dunkirk tells the story of the Texans who fought Santa Anna’s troops at the Battle of the Alamo.   Looking out over the walls of the whitewashed Alamo, sweltering in the intense sun of a February heat wave, Colonel William...

Three decades after his landmark work A Night to Remember, Walter Lord revisits the Titanic Years after A Night to Remember stoked the fires of public interest in the doomed RMS Titanic, the clamor for details about April 14, 1912, has not abated. As die-hard professional and amateur historians—“rivet...

En este breve ensayo de nuestra colección Camino Interior, Walter Riso nos habla de que existe una dimensión ética del amor que se cruza con la autoestima, y que nos obliga a pensar este sentimiento; a revisar la relación y a preguntarnos si el sufrimiento que a veces nos ocasiona, realmente tiene...

"A thrilling synthesis from a brilliant scientist who discovered one of the most important chapters in our history." —Sean B. Carroll Big History, the field that integrates traditional historical scholarship with scientific insights to study the full sweep of our universe, has so...

**A USA Today Top 10 Best Book of Winter 2014 "Equals Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood as a nonfiction novel of crime.”—Gerald Bartell, San Francisco Chronicle** In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn—then an aspiring novelist struggling with impending fatherhood and a dissolving...

The awe-inspiring twelfth volume of the Golden Age of Science Fiction!! Featuring: Once a Greech, by Evelyn E. Smith Pandemic, by J.F. Bone My Fair Planet, by Evelyn E. Smith Sorry: Wrong Dimension, by Ross Rocklynne Junior, by Robert Abernathy Song in a Minor Key, by C.L. Moore The Right Time, by...

“Walter Jon Williams really knows how to play power chords in the ‘key of wonder’ and in Implied Spaces he’s gone to town on the guitar solo!”                     --Charles Stross “Implied Spaces pioneers...

Steward is a Beta— a clone. In his memories, he’s an elite commando for an orbital policorp— but because his Alpha never did a brain-scan update, Steward’s memories are fifteen years out of date . . . and in those fifteen years, everything has changed. An interstellar war destroyed...

This novella is the long-awaited sequel to Walter Jon Williams’ classic novel Hardwired. They call it Black Mind. Using this covert technology, Reno has written his own consciousness over that of Albrecht Roon, one of Earth’s greatest enemies. A saboteur surrounded by enemies, he must act...

“Space opera the way it ought to be [...] Bujold and Weber, bend the knee; interstellar adventure has a new king, and his name is Walter Jon Williams.” -- George R.R. Martin The first book in the completed Dread Empire's Fall trilogy, followed by The Sundering and Conventions of War. All...