"Joe Lattimore, homeless and trying desperately to provide for his young family, agrees to fight in a no-holds-barred fight, only to have his opponent die. Lattimore now finds himself at the mercy of the fight's organizers who blackmail him into burglarizing a house. However, when he breaks in, he finds a murdered woman on the floor and the police have received an anonymous tip naming him for the crime. Robin Lockwood, an increasingly prominent young...

The divisiveness of Civil War has spread to Jamie Madrox's X-Factor team: Half of them want to cooperate with the government; the other half wants to take a stand against it. And matters aren't being helped by Quicksilver, who offers Rictor the opportunity to get his powers back but at what price?

A midwife and a mortician walk into a bar… Dani operates a holistic birthing center called Breathe. Ranae tends to the dead and their loved ones at Fair Havens Green Cemetery. The two best friends produce a podcast called Matters of Life and Death where they talk about the beginning and end of life… and everything in between. Behind the scenes, Dani's marriage is on the rocks. And although she's doing all she can to keep things together, her...

Barbara Rogers argues that population growth would not be a problem if all women had access to safe and effective contraception. If half the world's women have one less child our numbers would stabilize. The women's movement and environmentalists should take this up as a priority, allowing poor women the same access to reproductive choice as richer ones take for granted. Modern eugenics, developed by Nazi racial theorists, is now rife among fundamentalists,...

In this highly articulate, down-to-earth, generous, and thoughtful book, Dr. David Galler tells stories of life and death from his position as head of intensive care at a busy city hospital. Weaving his own personal stories throughout-including the death of his parents-David frames a number of chapters around key organs such as the heart, brain, and kidneys, talking about their physical nature as well as their importance emotionally and holistically....

View the life cycle of a star in its broadest context, seeing how stars serve as agents of alchemy, transforming the simplest element - hydrogen - into the panoply of heavier elements that compose life and all other material objects in the universe.

Tony's up for the NYPD commissioner job while dealing with a habitual drunken driver, a jail hunger strike and two missing cops - found underwater.

U.S. Army war veteran Hazel Motes may not be a believing Christian, but he somehow makes observations about the state of a run-down country church and understands that there are ridiculous frauds on the streets. When a cab driver insists he looks like a preacher in his new hat, Hazel takes on the part. He starts his own new Church of Truth, without the crucified Jesus. His first disciple is an 18-year old simpleton with a 'prophetic gift.'