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"The book is absolutely excellent . . . a unique fascinating account of the work of one of our leading anthropologists." -Colin M. Turnbull

This workbook provides tools for self-assessment, guidelines and activities for addressing vicarious traumatization, and exercises to use with groups of helpers.

"Smart and defiant. Rich with characters and anecdote and heart. A great success." --Anthony Swofford, New York Times Book Review

"Something to please every shade of taste for armchair adventure."-Booklist, Top 10 Literary Travel Books

"The travel book of the season."-Craig Seligman, New York Times Book Review

An authoritative book with new lifesaving strategies for those at risk and those already diagnosed.

The rapid and practical way to master the basics and begin speaking the language. The book gives you the essential, simplified grammar plus 3000 of the most-used words and idiomatic phrases that people use in real-life situations. The book can be used as a self-learner by beginners and also by those who want to brush up.

We live in an age when love and power have become virtually interchangeable.

Born in 1875, the German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart.

"What pleasure to see the dishonest, the inept, and the misguided deftly given their due, while praise is lavished on the deserving-for reasons well and truly stated."-Kirkus Reviews

Coffin's exciting saga, written with the immediacy of a combat correspondent, dramatizes why and how a small, poor, remote Northern state responded so quickly and enthusiastically to President Lincoln's first call to arms in 1861.

This book contains articles by members and associates of the Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto, based on their work in family therapy during the period 1965-1974.

This practical book is written for all those sailing and boat-building enthusiasts who take pleasure in making improvements to their craft.

After a life spent in a successful writing career that has left him bereft of creativity and worn in body and spirit, George Adamson goes to Greece on a journey of self-discovery and renewal.

A provocative answer to the ancient question: Is the Loch Ness monster fact or fantasy?

Until recently, psychoanalysis has been a most reluctant recipient of the new inheritance. For most of its century-long life it has clung to the positivist epistemology of Freud, its founding genius, belying his hope that his followers would be as skeptical about received wisdom in their time as he was in his. Psychoanalysis has protected itself from change by preserving its store of founding metaphors in their original form.

Psychotherapy researchers have traditionally focused on therapy outcomes outside of the therapeutic setting. This presents the difficulty of correlating outcomes with what goes on in the clinical setting, a nearly impossible task. It is no surprise, consequently, that therapists have seen such research as largely irrelevant to clinical practice.

Both William O'Dwyer, the 104th mayor of New York City, and Frank Costello, prime minister of the underworld, were immigrants, and there the similarity might have ended, except for the televised Kefauver hearings on organized crime in 1951 that linked them forever.

This is the story of one woman's struggle to keep a family together in the teeth of a system that makes life a series of uprootings. For Poppie Nongena is black and lives in present-day South Africa.

One after another in dimly lit Riverside Park, three young women are brutally murdered. Palm fronds bind their wrists, and halos of corn kernels frame their heads. Blood has been taken from their bodies; no blood is on the ground.

A gourmet collection of Antonia Fraser's short stories of suspense and mystery.