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As Pogo once said, "We have met the enemy and he is us."

"Readers who have come to expect Miss Chase to provide stunning evocations of time and place, particularly of nineteenth-century Maine, will not be disappointed by The Lovely Ambition." -New York Times Book Review

Zhores Medvedev, a Soviet biochemist and outspoken critic of the Soviet bureaucracy, who was railroaded into a mental hospital, and his brother, historian Roy Medvedev, who rallied the Soviet scientific and intellectual community in protest, together tell the story of "repression by psychiatry" in Russia today.

Articles by and about composers, beginning with Charles Ives and including Edgard Varese, Roger Sessions, Aaron Copland, Walter Piston, Elliott Carter, Stefan Wolpe, and others.

A definitive visitor's guide to the beauty and tranquility of South Dakota, covering not only historical sites and tourist attractions, but also hiking, hunting, fishing and camping as well as other forms of outdoor exploration.

Tim Matson surveys an often overlooked aspect of independent living-firelight.

Leave the inner city for biking the nearby country roads and lanes in the New York tristate area.

"Inspired by affection... Extremely witty and intelligent."-Publishers Weekly

Brilliantly written essays on the aesthetic principles and enduring motives of architecture.

"Lisa Williams brings us a poetry of intense observation yoked with equal force to celebration and cerebration."-Gregory Orr

Who would have guessed, three centuries ago, that William Penn's "greene" province and "countrie towne" on the Delaware would become the keystone of American industrialization and the source of some of the nation's most important business institutions?

To many Americans, Oregon is an idyllic, fruitful garden on the northwestern shore of a troubled urban nation. But, as author Gordon B. Dodds explains in this thoughtful history, behind that image lies the story of a state that has retained many of the conservative values of its first settlers while accommodating the forces of national development.

What life has really been like for most Mississippians is the story told in this intriguing history.

A wildly imaginative tragicomedy about a fantastical animal on the prowl and its affection for one troubled family.

"A timely, well-written and scholarly polemic for the separation of church and state."--Bernard Crick, The New Statesman

"Reconstructs the vibrantly intoxicating atmosphere of the theatrical world in the early nineteenth century. Lavishly romantic." --Booklist

"Holdstock's vivid, unflinching tale doesn't sugarcoat the casual brutality of the period, and is punctuated by startling moments of beauty." --Publishers Weekly

A sun-baked, beautifully observed debut for readers who loved Amy and Isabelle-a mother and daughter come of age in Las Vegas.

"A spare, subtle, moving love story that builds and sustains its own utterly believable world." -Elizabeth Ward, Washington Post

"A compassionate exploration of a woman's life-between motherhood and dreaming, living the everyday and taking flight."-Jane Mendelsohn, author of I Was Amelia Earhart

The inspiring story of one woman's journey of healing and transformation.

How and where did different architectural styles develop? America has an abundance of fascinating and varied house styles, as fascinating and diverse as its people.

In the latest gripping Harpur & Iles mystery, the London syndicate tries to take over a choice operation, setting off a murderous rivalry with the local drug lords-and a fierce policy war among the police.

A fascinating and long-overdue examination of the political, economic, and human rights issues impacting U.S. policy toward China.

The clearest explanation yet of how improvements in patient care are related to--and depend on--biomedical research.

"Carol Hill has deftly synthesized feminism, romance, sophisticated science, and broad comedy into a spirited, high-flying novel." -Dan Cryer, Newsday

"Not many people can write splendid fiction about the inner workings of the American political state. In fact, Ward Just is the only one I can think of." -Boston Globe

"The best explanation that I have seen for our distinctive combination of faith, hope and naivete concerning the governmental process." -Michael Kamman, Washington Post