This book is a collection of the Peanuts comic strips, from Snoopy's authorship using his typewriter to the exchange of useless Christmas presents between Snoopy and Woodstock.

NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat arrives at her latest crime scene to find an unidentified woman stabbed to death and stuffed inside a suitcase left on a Manhattan street. Nikki is in for a big shock when this new homicide connects to the unsolved murder of her own mother.

Presents unscientific disinformation about cold fusion and various related topics, with humorous illustrations, anecdotes, jokes, and quotes.

Douglas Wile translates and analyzes four collections of recently released nineteenth-century manuscripts on T'ai-chi ch'uan. These writings of Wu's older brothers Ch'eng-ch'ing and Ju-ch'ing, and his nephew Li I-yu, together with the transmissions of Yang Pan-hou, represent a significant addition to the seminal literature. The rich new texts allow us to make a fresh survey of longstanding issues in T'ai-chi history: the origins of the art; the authorship...

Since the first scrolls were found in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have been the subject of passionate speculation and controversy. This book, written by three noted scholars in the field, draws together all the evidence and presents the first fully illustrated survey of every major manuscript, from the Copper Scroll, the Community Rule, and the Temple Scroll to less well-known scripts such as the Florilegium and New Jerusalem. "The Scrolls Revealed"...

"More than ten years after the New York Times unmasked Savannah Knoop as the face of the mysterious author JT LeRoy, her story continues to fascinate. To some, it was a compelling experiment with authorship and identity. To others, it was an unforgivable deception. In Girl Boy Girl, Knoop tells her side of the story, revealing how she came to portray the young trans hustler turned literary wunderkind--a persona created by her sister-in-law, Laura...

"While doing research in the archives room of the Siena Municipal Public Library on 19th century Jewish life in that city, I notice a cardboard box labeled "Lorenzini?" The question mark showed that the archivist wasn't really sure about the authorship. Since Lorenzini wrote Pinocchio under the pen-name Collodi, I open the box and am astounded to see a handwritten manuscript titled: Tinocchia, the Adventures of a Jewish Puppetta. Excited by this serendipitous...

Accused of cheating and desperate to prove his innocence, an eighteen-year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai reflects back on his tumultuous life while competing to win 20 million rupees on India's most popular television game show.