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"Tish McWhinny is Miss Marple without the cuteness, brought up to date and plunked down in Vermont. She is gutsy and audacious..." --Margaret Maron

A delightfully funny mystery set in New England.

The Western New York region encompasses forested hills, rolling farmland, picturesque villages, and natural wonders like the Genessee River Gorge, Allegany State Park, and Chautauqua Lake.

Set against the Carnival atmosphere of frantic gaiety, Death of a Voodoo Doll is a gruesome and harrowing adventure for the unlikely, peripatetic sleuths.

A revelatory biography of the American master as told through the lens of his greatest novel.

No more satisfying poetry written in our time can be found than Vassar Miller's. She is one of the most accomplished craftswomen of her trade. And her craft shapes the verbal embodiment of real vision. She is a wonderful conceiver and joiner of lines. And her lines say something special and substantial.

These arresting and memorable poems are filled with love and history. Not general love and history, for the author is a poet of the particular and he writes of quite individual loves and of episodes of quite local history.

The story of a journalist held captive by guerrillas in Cambodia.

More Americans have fled to Canada to avoid the Vietnam War than have died in Vietnam. This is the story of that burgeoning exile community now estimated at from 40,000 to 100,000 strong.

"This book deals in a scientific manner with a sexual deviation called fetishism. This deviation involves the attraction to an object associated with a sexual partner rather than the attraction to a partner as such." -- From the Introduction by Emil Gutheil

Revolution as Theatre reflects the deep concern of a brilliant and disciplined mind confronted with the spectre of "clenched minds and clenched fists."

The accounts left by these travelers are important, not only for their corroboration of Marco Polo's tales of wonder, but because they throw light upon the early history, customs and religion of one of the great peoples of the modern world-the Chinese. In these account we see the roots of Chinese pride, patience, endurance and heroism. Through them we learn to understand that the greatness of the Chinese people today is not an accident, but the result, the fruit of an anciently founded and mature culture, a culture that could live side-by-side with the ravishing, destructive, brutal culture of the Mongolian Tartars and even survive the holocaust visited upon them by these barbarians.

A paperback collection newly offset from Complete Poems 1904-1962 with an afterword by the Cummings scholar George James Firmage.

An eye-opening selection of Cumming's more avant-garde poetry and prose.

Reissued in an edition newly offset from the authoritative Complete Poems 1904-1962, edited by George James Firmage.

"A much needed book. It not only provides the proper orientation to its material, but its humanistic approach is more perceptive and illuminating than technical scholarship." -Theodore H. Gaster, Columbia University

If letter writing is a lost art, Staying on Alone is a measure of what has been lost.

Contents: Benito Cereno; Bartleby the Scrivener; The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles; Billy Budd, Foretopman.

The internationally renowned Soviet psychologist presents here the results of his research into the disorganization and control of human behavior.

Not since John Berryman's Homage to Mistress Bradstreet has there been a more remarkable embodiment of an historic personality in poetic form than in this book.

This collection of 160 short poems, demonstrating that brevity is indeed the soul of wit, spans Ammon's whole career, ranging from mordantly funny paradoxes to intensely compressed instants of lyric perception.

"Joseph Epstein may well be the only first-rate American literary critic who can be said to have-and deserve-fans. His essays have captivated readers with their wit, learning, and unabashed love of reading. . . .He has high standards for craftsmanship and a low tolerance for cant." -Washington Times

"I think this is an outstanding book and one that I would recommend for our students. If students digest the lessons of this book the level of practice of medicine in this country will rise significantly!' -Roy H. Maffly, M.D., Associate Dean for Student Affairs, Stanford University School of Medicine

A guide for physicians and clinicians to understanding and choosing the proper psychiatric medications and for their patients who want to learn how this should be done.