Stewart: 2893 books

How are ribbons entangled in a 19th century romance or a children's nursery song? What if an inheritance depends on marrying? Can one love his wife while flirting with another? These two short stories should make you smile.

No one notices Peggy anymore. An incident at a supermarket is all it takes to get her to change her life radically.

At twenty-two, Kelly is a much sought-after international performer. She has made it to the top with help from Fiona, her manager and encouragement from her boyfriend, Justin. When Justin betrays her, she shatters - only to pick up the pieces and to begin again. An unexpected discovery from 2000 years ago, helps her to mend.

An Irish indentured servant, Abigail Flynn has managed to escape her lecherous American patron, thanks to his wife. Alone, traveling west on a buckboard wagon, Abigail is caught in a violent storm. As she shelters beneath the wagon, she doubts that things could get much worse — but they do.

From 1789 to 1913, U.S. senators were not directly elected by the people—instead the Constitution mandated that they be chosen by state legislators. This radically changed in 1913, when the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, giving the public a direct vote. Electing the Senate...

In a riveting scene from the film Wall Street, Gordon Gekko proclaims that “greed is good.” The great philosopher David Hume, on the other hand, describes greed as the most destructive of the vices. The recent banking debacle and continuing uproar about executive bonus pay has placed the controversial...

Plutarch's “Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans”, often simply referred to as “Plutarch's Lives”, is a series of biographies of notable ancient Greek and Roman figures most likely written at the beginning of the second century AD. Instead of simply writing histories, Plutarch explores the...

Dope, duplicity, and violence fill this gasser of a novel from a protégé of William S. Burroughs Set in the scorched cityscape of the Reagan-era Lower East Side of Manhattan, The Lotus Crew is Stewart Meyer’s harrowing yet humorous tale of loyalty and betrayal in the face of heroin addiction....

This is a fictional parody, ‘Just Call Me Bob’ is about President Barack H. Obama, aka, ‘BOB’. At times, reality rears its head and forces the President to act rationally as the fate of the nation is in his hands. This story is about his new home, his cabinet choices and how he faces major...

Some years ago, "new math" took the country's classrooms by storm. Based on the abstract, general style of mathematical exposition favored by research mathematicians, its goal was to teach students not just to manipulate numbers and formulas, but to grasp the underlying mathematical concepts. The...

Bluewords Greening is a book about motherhood—love and family and fear and failure and mini-ninjas. We observe a mother’s bewildering experiences with her son as the poems detail his diagnosis with a rare form of epilepsy and the “bluewords” that result from his aphasia. The speaker is in...

**Do you want to live in harmony with the natural environment? Are you or your family exposed to harmful chemicals at home?** Australian Green Home and Garden introduces green alternatives, solutions to everyday household tasks that are effective, inexpensive and easy to apply. It...

First there was Edwin A. Abbott's remarkable Flatland, published in 1884, and one of the all-time classics of popular mathematics. Now, from mathematician and accomplished science writer Ian Stewart, comes what Nature calls "a superb sequel." Through larger-than-life characters and an inspired...

Enter the magical maze of mathematics and explore the surprising passageways of a fantastical world where logic and imagination converge. For mathematics is a maze—a maze in your head—a maze of ideas, a maze of logic. And that maze in your mind is a powerful tool for understanding an even bigger...