Set in the remote arctic region of Northern Canada, this booktakes readers on a harrowing canoe voyage that results in tragedy,redemption, and, ultimately, transformation. George Grinnell wasone of six young men who set off on the 1955 expedition led byexperienced wilderness canoeist Art Moffatt. Poorly planned andexecuted, the journey seemed doomed from the start. Ignoring theapproaching winter, the men became entranced with the peace andbeauty of the arctic in autumn. As winter closed in, they suddenlyfaced numbing cold and dwindling food. When the crew is swept overa waterfall, Moffatt is killed and most of the gear and emergencyfood supplies destroyed. Confronting freezing conditions and nearstarvation, the remaining crew struggled to make it back tocivilization. For Grinnell, the three-month expedition was both arite of passage and a spiritual odyssey. In the Barrens, he losthis sense of identity and what he had been conditioned to thinkabout society and himself. Forever changed by the experience,

For nearly a decade,the popular series E!True Hollywood Story has reveales the glamorous and dramatic lives of the Hollywood elite.Now,for the first time,E!brings its signature stortelling to a book,sharing fifteen in-depth portraits of some of the most celebrated-and often controversial-stars of our time.

This expanded and fully revised edition of the guide that students have come to trust over the years is indispensable for anyone planning further study after college. Guide to American Graduate Schools provides comprehensive, up-to-date information on every aspect of graduate study, including: ● enrollments, locations, and housing situations for more than 1,200 accredited institutions ● fields of study offered by each institution ● admissions and degree requirements .. ● opportunities for financial aid and grants ● details on scholarships, fellowships, assistantships, internships, and traineeships

Designed to help parents avoid the miseducation of youngchildren. Dr. Elkind shows us the very real difference between themind of a pre-school child and that of a school age child.

From an award-winning New York Times investigative reportercomes an outrageous story of greed, corruption, andconspiracy—which left the FBI and Justice Department counting onthe cooperation of one man . . . It was one of the FBI's biggest secrets: a senior executive withAmerica's most politically powerful corporation, Archer DanielsMidland, had become a confidential government witness, secretlyrecording a vast criminal conspiracy spanning five continents. MarkWhitacre, the promising golden boy of ADM, had put his career andfamily at risk to wear a wire and deceive his friends andcolleagues. Using Whitacre and a small team of agents to tap intothe secrets at ADM, the FBI discovered the company's scheme tosteal millions of dollars from its own customers. But as the FBI and federal prosecutors closed in on ADM, usingstakeouts, wiretaps, and secret recordings of illegal meetingsaround the world, they suddenly found that everything was not allthat it appeared. At the same time Whitacre was coo

At the dawn of the twentieth century, a great confidencesuffused America. Isaac Cline was one of the era's new men, ascientist who believed he knew all there was to know about themotion of clouds and the behavior of storms. The idea that ahurricane could damage the city of Galveston, Texas, where he wasbased, was to him preposterous, "an absurd delusion." It was 1900,a year when America felt bigger and stronger than ever before.Nothing in nature could hobble the gleaming city of Galveston, thena magical place that seemed destined to become the New York of theGulf. That August, a strange, prolonged heat wave gripped the nationand killed scores of people in New York and Chicago. Odd thingsseemed to happen everywhere: A plague of crickets engulfed Waco.The Bering Glacier began to shrink. Rain fell on Galveston withgreater intensity than anyone could remember. Far away, in Africa,immense thunderstorms blossomed over the city of Dakar, and greatcurrents of wind converged. A wave of atmospheric turbule

The enthralling and often harrowing history of the adventurerswho searched for the Northwest Passage, the holy grail ofnineteenth-century British exploration. After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, theBritish took it upon themselves to complete something they had beentrying to do since the sixteenth century: find the fabled NorthwestPassage, a shortcut to the Orient via a sea route over northernCanada. For the next thirty-five years the British Admiralty sentout expedition after expedition to probe the ice-bound waters ofthe Canadian Arctic in search of a route, and then, after 1845, tofind Sir John Franklin, the Royal Navy hero who led the last ofthese Admiralty expeditions and vanished into the maze of channels,sounds, and icy seas with two ships and 128 officers and men. In The Man Who Ate His Boots, Anthony Brandt tells the wholestory of the search for the Northwest Passage, from its beginningsearly in the age of exploration through its development into aBritish nation

"When I decided to look, I found more love andcompassion than I ever imagined existed. Most significantly, Ifound forgiveness. I might even call it redemption."

A riveting true crime story that vividly recounts the birth ofmodern forensics. At the end of the nineteenth century, serial murderer JosephVacher, known and feared as “The Killer of Little Shepherds,”terrorized the French countryside. He eluded authorities foryears—until he ran up against prosecutor Emile Fourquet and Dr.Alexandre Lacassagne, the era’s most renowned criminologist. Thetwo men—intelligent and bold—typified the Belle ?poque, a period ofimmense scientific achievement and fascination with science’spromise to reveal the secrets of the human condition. With high drama and stunning detail, Douglas Starr revisitsVacher’s infamous crime wave, interweaving the story of howLacassagne and his colleagues were developing forensic science aswe know it. We see one of the earliest uses of criminal profiling,as Fourquet painstakingly collects eyewitness accounts andconstructs a map of Vacher’s crimes. We follow the tense andexciting events leading to the murderer’s arrest