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The story of the black soldiers who helped save the Union, conquer the West, and build the nation.

The 1997 centennial of Brahms's death has intensified interest among concertgoers and music lovers in the composer's prodigious body of work.

"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

A perennially best-selling and influential psychoanalytic work.

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.

Here is a revolutionary approach for heating rooms and generating hot water. Author Gaelan Brown has worked with engineers and compost scientists to refine methods of composting that can heat greenhouses, barns, buildings, and hot water, all without combustion.

A timeless classic to hiking in New Hampshire, with three brand-new hikes.

"A wonderful read... An historical novel of the highest quality."-Iain Pears

Explorer's Great Destinations puts the guide back into guidebook.

Higuchi Ichiyo, Japan's first woman writer of stature in modern times, wrote poems, essays, short stories and a great, multi-volumed diary. This book is made up of a critical biography, interlaced with extracts from the diary, and Robert Danly's translations of nine representative stories.

Three generations of writers celebrate a master whose life and work continue to reverberate in contemporary letters.

Tips and techniques for managing a prevalent co-existing condition.

This book analyses the cultural, neurobiological and psychological aspects of early childhood and their impact on later morality and decision-making.

From a dazzling, award-winning young poet, a collection that paints life as a celebration in the dark.

"No contemporary poet, in America, is likelier to become a classic than A. R. Ammons."-Harold Bloom

How the smile and fortitude of a child actress revived a nation.

One of the most powerful (though deceptively simple) of current ideas is Erik H. Erikson's insight into the nature of the interrelationships of the psychogenic development of an individual and the historical development of the times.

Ortega deals here with the roots and historical justification of philosophy, and the question of philosophy's essential unity.

Lauded by the "Virginia Quarterly" as "the best Civil War novel ever written, " "Jacob's Ladder" resonates with all the bitter glory and deep human shame of America's greatest war.

A remarkable document of an era that permanently changed the American political landscape.