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"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

"Poignant visions of childhood, the family, and moments of perception that become 'a study of small pleasures' to be recalled and savored."-Library Journal

For Joanna the month's holiday was to be an escape, a chance to paint and think and release the bitter memories of the war in Greece and of her mother's death.

Completely revised and updated throughout, the new edition of this successful guide is for everyone who ventures into the wilderness.

Did you know that horseshoe crabs have been around for 200 million years? That mussels "spin" long anchor lines and climb steep slopes with them? Do you know what a "Beetlebung" tree is?

"The Will to Change is an extraordinary book of poems...It has the urgency of a prisoner's journal: patient, laconic, eloquent, as if determined thoughts were set down in stolen moments." -David Kalstone in The New York Times Book Review

Spuriously attributed to Homer, the hymns and invocations collected in this book constitute, alongside The Iliad and The Odyssey the great sources of ancient Greek poetry.

More than any other single man, George Washington was responsible for bringing success to the American Revolution. But because of the heroic image in which we have cast him and which already enveloped him in this own lifetime, Washington is and was a hard man to know.

"Anybody attracted to the again fashionable delusion that the United States might have `won' in Vietnam ought to read and meditate upon The End of the Line. . . . All the lessons are here in concise and readable form" -Newsweek

"Linda Hamalian is to be saluted for the sheer amount of detection and unraveling she has brought to her life of Kenneth Rexroth. It's the kind of information everyone seems to take for granted, but which would still be covered by the desert sands of time except for the biographer's herculean labors." -Washington Post Book World

This book displays encyclopedic knowledge at the command of a mind equally at home with strategic and moral issues. A gracefully written book for experts and amateurs alike.

"Teachers of courses in twentieth-century German history will welcome the reprinting of this book, which has held its position as the best of the single-volume histories of the Weimar Republic in English." -Gordon A. Craig

These eighty sonnets were written by a man expecting to be executed for his resistance to the Nazi regime.

"The best account yet available of this shrewd, enigmatic and remarkable woman."-Sunday Times [London]

Finally, the workings of the Supreme Court revealed in this marvelously clear guide to our most important judicial institution.