Elizabeth Janeway

Had he sacrificed his happiness for her? Brodie had always counted on Drew to look after her, provide for her and keep her safe. She hated to think that her dependence on Drew had kept him from finding happiness--especially now. Brodie was facing heartache, and she needed Drew more than ever. Still, she couldn't help but wonder about the love Drew had lost so many years ago. She never dreamed that Drew's decision to remain single might have had anything to do with her--until Drew proposed marriage to pull Brodie out of yet another scrape.

"Why is it that, in such a vast cosmos, with hundreds of billions of stars in this galaxy alone, and no doubt billions of Earth-like planets orbiting them, we have found no evident of intelligent alien life? No evidence that alien have ever visited Earth (other than discredited UFO mythology), no detectable signals...? The stories in this anthology offer intriguing explanations for this enigma, looking seriously or comically at solutions..."--P.of cover.

An account of the explorations of Eric the Red and his son, Leif Ericson, in the New World, 500 years before Columbus.

A peasant lad newly recruited into the Tsar's army adjusts easily to the boring life of drills and marches, but when target practice endangers the neighboring villagers he rebels, is released and eventually returns home with the long-sought answer to an old village problem.

In this refreshing study of the role of women in our society, Elizabeth Janeway uses information from historians, sociologists, psychoanalysts and anthropologists. She finds that the idea of women as household drudges is barely three centuries old and, worse, confined largely to the middle class. She examines why society is so reluctant to abandon this notion, and finds the answer lies in a number of well-established social and psychological patterns.