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These moving and insightful stories help us to find our place in a world in which we have all become rootless travelers. Janette Turner Hospital's characters are exiles who share an intimate knowledge of dislocation: from their culture, from their native countries, from themselves. Her intimate stories capture the turning points in her characters' lives from Indian lovers on a last romantic weekend before their arranged marriages to a daughter's welcome home after years of travel. Janette Turner Hospital is a wanderer herself. A native of Australia, she has lived in India, England, Canada, and the United States. She is the author of numerous novels, including Oyster, which is published by Norton and was shortlisted for Australia's Miles Franklin and National Book Awards.

The discovery of relativity is one of the major accomplishments of the physical sciences, and also one of the least understood. In this book the author introduces non-scientists to relativity as well as some of its applications in cosmology and the study of black holes.

America's arsenals are full of weapons that they may never use and cannot afford. This work delves into the interconnected roles that the President, Congress, the Pentagon, science and industry play in shaping America's defences.

"At last, a translation that does long overdue justice to the noble poetry of Salvador Espriu, one of this century's great lyric elegists." -William Arrowsmith

"Power and Money develop[s] and exemplif[ies] [Edsall's] unique insight into the dynamics of political changes in our times." -David Broder

Grandfathers are generally produced by the birth of grandchildren. But Sprig Wyeth needed more than the arrival of his first grandchild to welcome that role.

"Elegantly written...A bright blending of the scholarly and the practitioner's point of view." -Philadelphia Inquirer

"An extremely solid history of Indochina in the Viet Minh War era. Essentially a diplomatic history, but one that carefully weaves in developments on the battlefield. Makes use of new knowledge and is a useful corrective to some of the earlier works on the subject by the French. Recommended." -Douglas Pike, Indochina Chronology

"A very good book indeed.... It is quietly reasoned, beautifully ordered, and spirited as hell.... [It] is not a book for children, nostalgic or otherwise."-Loren Baritz, The Nation

"Kenyon Cox's insistence that painters be able to paint will strike the contemporary art world as a piece of foaming radical heresy." -Tom Wolfe, author of The Bonfire of the Vanities

"This is biography-as-history in the best sense of the term...Mr. Crassweller gives us what is perhaps the best single-volume history of 20th-century Argentina: sensitive, urbane, deeply comprehending, written in a style worthy of the most important of historical themes." -Mark Falcoff, New York Times Book Review

"A uniquely entertaining book: edifying scholarship, diverting social history."-Elaine Kendall, Los Angeles Times

"A deeply engrossing portrait of what life physically felt like. . . . [An] intimate picture. . .of early Kenya." -[London] Times Literary Supplement

"Wicked, subversive, satirical, sophisticated, and deep."-Kate Christensen

"Provocative and richly textured. . . .Schwartz's analyses of the inadequacies of contemporary scientific views of human nature are compelling, but the consequences are even more worthy of note." -Los Angeles Times

"Far and away the most illuminating account we have of the people and policies that led the United States into the Vietnam catastrophe. . . .A significant contribution to the history of our times." -Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

This volume, Stallworthy's seventh collection, typifies the way in which his best work mingles a graphically personal element with a strong sense of responsibility. "The fullest, most representative collection of his verse now available".--Library Journal.

In mid-1986, world population stood at 5 billion. The United Nations now projects that in less than fifty years world population will at least double, and may reach over 12 billion. Is this cause for alarm? What are the choices ahead for the United States? The experts shed light on these questions and others in this new collection from the American Assembly.

A. R. Ammons's selection of his work once again, as the critic Harold Bloom wrote of the earlier version, "makes available the very best of him."

"Leon Edel has brilliantly provided for the art of biography a much-needed statement of first principles." -Louis Auchincloss

"A unique and valuable contribution. . . .Cohen brings to his analyses a keen critical perception, vast knowledge and-most noteworthy-a lucid style that makes his informed comments accessible to the non-specialist reader." -Newspaper Guild, 1985 Page One Award

In sounding alarm about the population challenges we face in the next five decades, the essays here--written by a wide variety of experts--offer constructive proposals for meeting these challenges on both personal and public policy levels.

Selected by Library Journal as one of the hundred best books in science and technology for 1985. This book is an outgrowth of a series of articles that appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer in November 1983. For eighteen months, the authors traveled some 20,000 miles, interviewing dozens of people and assembling more than 125,000 pages of documents. These included local, state, and federal government reports, state and federal court records, corporate files, congressional hearing transcripts, scientific studies, and internal memoranda of public agencies and private businesses. The resulting newspaper series provoked a much broader reaction than we had anticipated. In response to requests for copies of the articles, more than 25,000 reprints were sent to individuals and organizations in more than forty states and several foreign countries. Many of those who wrote urged the authors to expand the newspaper series into a book. In doing so, they updated the material and added new information, including sections on military waste, foreign reprocessing, and uranium mill tailings. We were tempted to delve into other areas, such as the design and construction of reactors and the economics of nuclear power. But we focused instead on waste-the amount produced, past efforts to manage it, and the politics of its disposal.

"A splendid exercise in scholarship and literary analysis-and fun to read." -"New and Recommended," New York Times Book Review

In the latter part of the nineteenth century, women, who had hitherto been barred from medical schools, were gradually granted the freedom to study and practice medicine. Indeed, by 1900, over 7,000 female physicians were practicing in America. Women were sought after to fill the void in women's health care-a substantial one, thanks to Victorian mores-as well as to imbue the medical profession with dignity which only women, it was believed, could supply. Thus the stereotype of women as gentle, virtuous creatures, natural healers, worked in their favor, opening doors to a major profession.

With a Historical Guide prepared by the editors of the American Association for State and Local History.

This book is designed to explain why winners win, why losers lose-and why everyone else finishes in the same position time after time.

"The scientific discoveries described in this book may turn out . . . to have been the most important research findings in the long history of science." -Lewis Thomas, from the Foreward

"Dry wit and analytic adroitness ... [This survey] contains some rich and stimulating material." -Kirkus Reviews