Bedside Manners is required reading for ER devotees, who will find a wealth of information here-from an inside look at ER and its creator, Michael Crichton, to a viewer's companion featuring detailed reviews of each and every...

On the surface, it seemed like a typical Mariah Carey night — lots of stuff was happening. Earlier on, Mariah, dressed to the nines in the current hot fashions, walked onto the stage amid thunderous applause to accept the Artist of the Decade Award at the prestigious Billboard Music Award ceremony held in the appropriately glitzy Las Vegas. There had been many awards over the years (and not a few slights), and Mariah had come to take them all in stride. But being named Artist of the Decade really meant something. It was kind of a validation for a meteoric rise to stardom that
had, by the end of the nineties, resulted in more than 100 million records sold worldwide, a series of soldout, critically praised concerts, and a reputation as one of the sweetest voices in pop and soul.

WELL BEFORE CELEBRATING HER 3OTH BIRTHDAY, Gwyneth Paltrow has lived what by all appearances is a charmed, fairy-tale existence. By the time she turned 26, she had appeared in 20 feature films and...

In this memoir, architect Gary Berkovich describes life growing up Jewish in the Soviet Union, forced relocation to...

Great stories about the Dave Matthews Band, written for fans, by fans
In 1998, ECW Press published what has become our best-selling title to dateStep into the Lightwhich chronicled the rise of the phenomenally popular Dave Matthews Band (DMB). The response to the book was...

The story of how a criminal Shangri-La almost happened.
In 1981, a small but heavily armed force of misfits from the United States and Canada set off on an unlikely mission...

An invaluable resource for medical professionals, victims of chronic illnesses, and their loved ones, this dual...

Lionel Tertis (1876-1975) stands in the company of Ysaÿe, Kreisler, Casals, Thibaud and Rubinstein as one of the greatest instrumentalists - and arguably the greatest viola player - of all time.

In People Who Don't Know They're Dead, Gary Leon Hill tells a family story of how his Uncle Wally and Aunt Ruth, Wally's sister, came to counsel dead spirits who took up residence in bodies that didn't belong to them.

A vast body of empirical evidence has accumulated demonstrating that incentives affect health care choices made by both consumers and suppliers of health care services. Decisions in health care are affected by many types of...

Manning Clark was one of the most influential Australian intellectuals of the last half century. His political pronouncements were often highly provocative and his sweeping judgements, dire denunciations and oracular...

This is the biography of the Gothic novelist, Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823), author of "The Mysteries of Udolpho", the world's first "best seller". The text clarifies Radcliffe's emergence from a Dissenting Unitarian, rather than a...

Today's Roman Catholic Church firmly states that women must be excluded from church leadership positions, but they neglect to mention that for over a decade in the seventeenth century a woman unofficially, but openly, ran...

In 1963, Jimmy Wynn was the second most famous man in America. The comedian’s uncanny impression of the President made him a star. But when the genuine article died in a hail of bullets on a sunny afternoon in New Orleans, Jimmy’s career met a fate almost as grisly. What happened to the funny man afterward was a mystery no one...

Comprehensive in its chronology, the works it discusses, and the commentators it critically examines, Alexis...