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May Sarton describes living at her eighteenth-century house in Nelson, New Hampshire-how she acquired it, how it and the garden became part of her.

An examination of John Dewey's ideas and influence, aiming to offer new insight into Dewey's character and achievements.

The Blakes are a prosperous black bourgeois family comfortably ensconced in St. Albans, Queens. Finley is a successful doctor; Olga his wife, can almost pass for white and is anything but comfortable about her race; and their spoiled daughter, Sophie, has just been accepted at Bennington.

In this surreal dark comedy, Larry "Giveadamn" Brown is transformed from a country bumpkin into a crime kingpin when he inherits the Harlem dope and numbers empire of his Uncle Harry.

At forty-eight, Bart Darling is about to perform a movie stunt that will in all likelihood kill him.

"A unique blend of personal narrative and scientific discovery, White Gloves reveals the centrality of autobiographical memory to consciousness and cognition." -Peter Salovey, Yale University, author of The Remembered Self

"A loving eulogy . . . a powerful and wrenching book." -Los Angeles Times

Impersonal forces do not make economic decisions: we do. And what we decide not only determines our society's material well-being but also reflects ethical choices.

Here is the third in Norton's colorful reissues of Adrienne's popular guides to learning languages.

Reissued in new paperback format and design

"[Told with] learning and verve. . . . A scintillating introduction to this troubled French decade."-Charles S. Maier, New York Times Book Review

Modeled on the highly successful Norton Critical Editions, this series offers illuminating introductions to major monuments of painting, sculpture, and architecture.

"Probably the most authoritative account of the genesis and early stages of the Human Genome Project. . . . This book tells it the way it was-and is." -Victor A. McKusick, University Professor of Medical Genetics, Johns Hopkins University

A first book of poems by one of the best new voices to emerge from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award, this book by a genuine new talent crosses the racial and gender divide.

"A searing metaphorical X-ray of a people battling to find space where they can become themselves. . . . I am deeply grateful for McFeely's magnificent effort of thought, empathy, scholarship and imagination." -Roger Wilkins, Los Angeles Times Book Review (front-page review)

"For those who wish to take the mystery out of money and interest rates, they can do no better than read George P. Brockway, The End of Economic Man." - E. Ray Canterbery, The Literate Economist

A Muriel Rukeyser Reader gathers a generous selection of poetry and prose spanning the forty-five years of Rukeyser's writing life.

In the twentieth century, disasters caused by human beings have become more and more common.

Powerful and compelling. . . . Eisenhower is not only an accomplished military historian, he's also a storyteller in the tradition of Bruce Caton and Shelby Foote."-Steve Neal, Chicago Sun-Times

This fascinating and revealing book is based on ten years of research during which Randall Brink brought suits against the government, interviewed key witnesses willing to talk for the first time, and made forays into the equatorial islands of the Pacific. He uncovered documents that provide strong new evidence about the circumstances of Earhart's last flight, and has used his background as a pilot to reinterpret photos and technical data that have been misunderstood until now. Meticulously pieced together is the shocking truth: the story of the Roosevelt administration's plan to turn Earhart's last flight into a mission in espionage, her capture by the Japanese, and her likely survival as a prisoner of war.

"There wasn't one page of his poem that didn't delight me."-Donald Davie, New York Review of Books

Moving easily between high and low diction, evoking at once the language of the King James Bible and the sharp psalms of Bertolt Brecht, these lyrics offer a spirituality rooted in the daunting pressures of late-twentieth-century life-living in cities, disease, war, sexual love, friendship, and, always, wandering.

The Phantom Empire is a brilliant, daring, and utterly original book that analyzes (even as it exemplifies) the effect that the image saturation of a hundred years of moving pictures have had on human culture and consciousness.

A landmark work when it appeared in 1976, America's Working Women helped form the field of women's studies and transform labor history. Now the authors have enlarged the dimensions of this important anthology; more than half the selections and all the introductory material are new. Spanning the years from 1600 to the present, selections from diaries, popular magazines, historical works, oral histories, letters, songs, poetry, and fiction show women's creativity in supporting themselves, their families, and organizations or associations. Slave women recall their field work, family work, and sabotage. We see Indian women farming, and we also see the white culture coercing Indian women to give up farming. We see women in industry playing a central part in the union movement while facing the particular hazards of women's jobs and working conditions. New selections show the historical origins of today's important issues: sexual harassment, equal pay, "sex work," work in the underground economy, work in the home, and shift work. With an expanded focus on women from all racial and ethnic backgrounds and regions, America's Working Women grounds us in the battles women have fought and the ones they are in the process of winning.

"Ware writes that she wanted to `rescue Amelia from the cult of her disappearance,' to replace an impossibly romanticized, martyred enigma with a useful piece of history. Grown-up women of today, aviators, and others, should find this Earhart a more plausible and heartening forerunner." -Amy E. Schwartz, Air & Space

"A comprehensive political analysis of Dag Hammarskjold's seven years [1952-1961] as the U.N.'s Secretary-General... Follows Hammarskjold through every major crisis of his day: McCarthyism, the aftermath of Korea, Suez, Hungary, Lebanon, Algeria, the Congo." -Friedel Ungeheuer, Time

A sensation when published in Moscow and a bestseller in Europe, the memoirs of this remarkable woman-the widow of the charismatic Bolshevik leader Nikolai I. Bukharin-offer a new dimension to our understanding of Soviet history.

"No one carries his learning more gracefully than Knox. That is because he does not, like so many scholars, seal it off from the rest of life. Ancient and current wisdom communicate through him." -Garry Wills

In this collection of essays, 21 contemporary women poets reflect on their relationship to literary tradition. The approaches taken are diverse and despite the common threads in these women's experiences, there is no concensus: "Where We Stand" represents a plurality of voices, not a chorus.