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"Brilliant...an honest assessment of the pathways into and out of [elderly] disability."-Journal of the American Medical Association

Three topics dominate discussions of the global environment: pollution; the consequences of the affluent running ever faster through finite resources; and the growing tensions between rich and poor. Barbara Ward refused to see these processes as inevitable. Here, she describes new technologies for recycling waste, for energy, for 'getting more or less', linking them to ordinary people's working lives. She suggests a strategy for meeting the basic needs of the disadvantaged, and shows how the vast inequalities between countries can be reduced.

Kissinger: Portrait of a Mind provides the fullest view possible of the development of Kissinger's approach to foreign policy. It is essential reading for courses that deal with American foreign relations in the twentieth century.

Coleridge combined the genius of a poet with the mind of a philosophical critic.

In this new edition Professor Hansen augments his authoritative study of the business cycle with an analysis of the performance-and the problems-of the postwar American economy.

"A winning combination of scholarship and intuition-and an unparalleled guide to understanding and performing these works." -Emanuel Ax

In 1965, the authors of The Ugly American published the novel Sarkhan, a book which they felt had an even more dramatic message than their great best-seller. Sarkhan was greeted with high praise, was a selection of both the Literary Guild and the Reader's Digest Condensed Book Club.

Characters to watch are assorted Mafia hoods; a passel of eccentrics who live at the Seventy-ninth Street Boat Basin; the regulars at Riley's saloon-Donovan's favorite hangout and (perhaps) Clint, Donovan's ill-tempered snapping turtle. Also on hand are Sgt. T. L. Jefferson, Donovan's redoubtable assistant, and Sgt. Marcia Barnes, the black undercover policewoman who is his on-again, off-again lover. Here's another jaunty big city thriller by the author of the much acclaimed Night Rituals.

"This book is the first to seize clearly upon the nature of this new dynamic, and to present it simply and forcefully in the context or rapidly moving events." -From the Introduction by Jean Monnet

The best and most eloqent introduction to Dante in our time.

An overview for effective community based therapy.

"A wonderfully entertaining book of American folklore and humor."-Elaine Kendall, Los Angeles Times Book Review

Alabama's is a story, believes author Virginia V. Hamilton, that bears scrutiny by Alabamians and outsiders alike if they would understand the present.

In the vein of Gail Godwin's Evensong, a powerful novel that explores faith and sisterhood in small-town New England.

Jack Keliher and Lily Sterne lead ordinary lives. But when their eighteen-month-old daughter, Katie, is accidentally burned while home alone with Lily and rushed to the hospital, their ordered world begins to unravel. An emergency room physician's report brings the state to take temporary custody of Katie, setting in motion a bureaucratic ordeal in which Lily and Jack are faced with every parent's worst fear: that their child will be taken away from them. Lily fears that her history of mental instability and postpartum depression will be used against her; Jack, in turn, blames Lily. Rachel Basch's quietly compelling narrative alternates between the voices of Jack and Lily as they reveal their increasingly divergent responses to the accident and its consequences. Their fierce struggle to keep their baby safe begins to take its toll on their relationship and their lives, and they are forced to grapple with the emotional and spiritual differences that slowly drive them apart. This exquisite novel's power reaches far beyond the story of an accident and its effect on a family. In depicting the anguish of a family in crisis, Basch has written a stunning work about the nature of privacy, the relationship of work and self, and the fragility--and ultimately, the importance--of love.

With the realism of John Updike and the psychological astuteness of Alice Hoffman, this "absorbing, elegant novel . . . remains surprising to the end" (Suzanne Berne).

Three classic Greek tragedies are translated and critically introduced by Edith Hamilton.

Douglas Moore, whose Listening to Music has made him known to a large audience of music lovers, has here written a book which will be welcomed by every ambitious listener who would develop his musical assurance and broaden his taste so as to achieve the greatest possible enjoyment from his musical experiences.

This is a book for patients and their families, for doctors to recommend to their patients, for specialists, psychiatrist, medical students, theologians, and anyone concerned with the dignity of the human condition.

A history of those men and women-English, European, and African-who transformed America from a geographical expression into a new nation.

"An extraordinary acute interpretation of these poets and their aims and accomplishments." -Virginia Quarterly Review

A veritable around-the-world of soup recipes, all scaled down to feed one, two or a few.

An historic publication in which the legendary dramatist emerges, quite like Goethe, as a poet driven by Eros.

The great energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy is under way.

Exploring the global politics of restitution from 1945 Germany to present-day Bosnia.

A gripping account of how al-Qaeda in Yemen rebounded from an initial defeat to once again threaten the United States.

An absolutely fascinating blend of history, design, sociology, and cultural poetics highly recommended. Maria Popova, Brain Pickings"

The story of the explosion and contamination was and still is suppressed in the Soviet Union and, the author contends, by the CIA and other Western intelligence organizations fearful of public resistance to nuclear power plants. Now, after an intensive study of Soviet scientific articles (written to disguise the fact that they were about the Ural explosion) and after many interviews and reports from friends in the scientific community as well as from witnesses, the author has pieced together the story of what actually happened. He analyzes the extent and consequences of the contamination and draws forbidding conclusions about the possibility of similar disasters in the rest of the world.

"To speak or not to speak? That is the Gimmick!" -Francoise Sagan