St Martin S Griffin imprint: 2039 books
The Eco Chick Guide to Life
How to Be Fabulously Green
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2008
SAVE THE WORLD IN STYLE!
Lower your carbon footprint—in your favorite pair of stilettos—with THE ECO CHICK GUIDE TO LIFE. Here you'll find hundreds of ideas on how to be ecologically smart and still be stylish and trend-setting. You don't have to sacrifice to go green—you can eat well,...
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
First Lady of the Air
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Few people know that Anne Morrow Lindbergh was an accomplished and innovative pilot in her own right. In fact, she was one of the defining figures of American aviation, a bright and adventurous woman who helped to pioneer air routes, traveled around the world, and came to be adored by the American...
The Woman with a Worm in Her Head
And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2002
A normal, healthy woman becomes host to a pork tapeworm that is burrowing into her brain and disabling her motor abilities.
A handsome man contracts Chicken Pox and ends up looking like the victim of a third degree burn.
A vigorous young athlete is bitten by an insect and becomes a target...
The Bird Flu Pandemic
Can It Happen? Will It Happen? How to Protect Yourself and Your Family If It Does
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Based on the recent avian flu outbreaks that have emerged into human populations, the World Health Organization now warns us that bird flu--if mutated into a supercontagious pandemic form--could visit millions of homes within two years.
The Bird Flu Pandemic provides definitive answers to the...
How to Be Bad
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Mark is a mild-mannered twenty-three-year-old bookseller who makes endless lists about stupid things. His life changes when he reestablishes contact with his old girlfriend, Caro. At seventeen, Caro was an implausibly sexy, promiscuous, druggy big-mouth. Six years later, she's exactly the same and...
by Samuel C. Florman
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Civil engineer Samuel C. Florman's The Civilized Engineer is aimed at both those observing and commenting externally on engineering, and the practicing engineer—to reveal something of the art behind great engineering achievements, and to stimulate debate upon the author's hypothesis that "in...
by Peter Jedicke, Scientific American
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
These 34 Scientific American selections from 1995-1999 explore extreme construction projects (e.g., the world's longest suspension bridge and tallest buildings); and developments in transportation by air, space, sea, and road. Includes illustrations and suggested reading.
How to Help Children Through a Parent's Serious Illness
Supportive, Practical Advice from a Leading Child Life Specialist
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
How to Help Children Through a Parent's Serious Illness has become the standard work on an important subject. A classic for over fifteen years, it continues to be a go-to book for supportive, practical advice, based on the lifetime experience and clinical practice of one of America 's leading child...
The Idea of You
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
"An OMG page-turner that literally sucks you in from page one to the last few words. I found myself yearning for more, needing, really, to know what happens next...it's that good." —Gabrielle Union
Solène Marchand, the thirty-nine-year-old owner of an art gallery in Los Angeles,...
Unf*ckology
A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Amy Alkon presents Unf*ckology, a “science-help” book that knocks the self-help genre on its unscientific ass. You can finally stop fear from being your boss and put an end to your lifelong social suckage.
Have you spent your life shrinking from opportunities you were dying to seize but...
Lamp Black, Wolf Grey
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Artist Laura Matthews finds her new home in the Welsh mountains to be a place so charged with tales and legends that she is able to reach through the gossamer-fine veil that separates her own world from that of myth and fable.
She and her husband Dan have given up their city life and moved...
Big Miracle
Inspired by the Incredible True Story that United the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Now a major motion picture starring Drew Barrymore, Ted Danson, Kristen Bell, Tim Blake Nelson, John Krasinski, and Vinessa Shaw—an account of the dramatic rescue of three gray whales trapped under the ice in Alaska in 1988.
Set in Cold War–era 1988, Big Miracle tells the real story behind the...
Reefer Madness
A History of Marijuana
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1998
Reefer Madness, a classic in the annals of hemp literature, is the popular social history of marijuana use in America. Beginning with the hemp farming of George Washington, author Larry "Ratso" Sloman traces the fascinating story of our nation's love-hate relationship with the resilient...
The Accidental Pope
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
The former US Ambassador to the Vatican and the bestselling author of The French Connection join forces to write an unforgettable, compelling novel about a humble fisherman who is elected as the next Pope.
Locked in a stalemate after days of voting, the College of Cardinals struggles through...