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For the off-pavement motorist in lower California.

"Dazzles like the harbor of Portofino." -Adriana Trigiani

"For a real insider's look at life in modern China, readers should turn to Rachel DeWoskin."-Sophie Beach, The Economist

The ultimate distance race is within your reach-a completely updated edition of the now-classic work.

[An] important work . . . inspiring its readers to greater human connection and to keep fighting the good fight. The Rumpus"

"The Belief Instinct" offers a surprising new take on why we believe in God--and how this belief has ensured the survival of the human species.

In its chilling and unsparing revelations, Firewall is the definitive account of the most dangerous breach of presidential authority since Watergate.

In this important and challenging book, Wolfgang Köhler's subject is value, or what he calls the "requiredness" of an object or activity. Starting with a descriptive account of values as we become aware of them, he finds that, inside certain contexts, parts of such structures do not appear as indifferent facts. They are experienced as belonging there intrinsically or, also, as being out of place in their contexts.Köhler's closely reasoned analysis, drawing on the fields of psychology, biology, and physics, centers around this concept of requiredness. Certain things in nature belong together or require the presence of one another in such a way that fitness or requiredness constitutes a principles of association between them. This same principle of association, Köhler suggests, may help to explain the idea of value and lay a foundation for the scientific solution of ethical problems.

"Takes an historically important decision, places it in its immediate stream of policy development, perceptions and events and adds what was missing from the Pentagon Papers."-Richard E. Neustadt, Harvard University

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) frequently creates turmoil, dysfunction, and impairment in the lives of diagnosed people, as well as among their families, friends, and colleagues.

Collected for the first time, Alice Miller's most helpful, therapeutic, and invaluable answers to hundreds of readers' letters.

The definitive biography of Robert Benchley: humorist, actor, and leading man of the Algonquin Round Table.

One of the world's most popular writers of literate thrillers, has, with the help of Simon Bainbridge, selected a collection of his favorite short stories about the political jungle. Here are stories by a diverse array of writers, from Twain and Dickens to London and Kipling. Jeffrey Archer is the bestselling author of Kane and Abel, First Among Equals, and other novels.

"A must-read for anyone who is concerned about our deeply flawed electoral system."-Congressman John Conyers, Jr.

The Collected Stories, in its variety and force, is the essential introduction to the fiction of Joseph Roth.

"[T]his impressive work...offers paths toward new and rich understandings of American history."-The New York Times Book Review

"[Gardner] zaps his targets with laserlike precision and wit."-Entertainment Weekly

"A necrobibliac classic: it may keep you up all night-not from fear but from fascination."-Kirkus Reviews, starred review

"Powerful, credible, and applicable . . . the methodology is immaculately detailed."-Fortune

A collection of inspiring letters from some of our most renowned and respected fiction writers on the craft of writing and the writing life.

May Sarton, poet and novelist, chronicles the year that began on 3rd May 1982, her 70th birthday. At her home in Maine, she savours "the experience of being alive in this beautiful place" reflecting on nature, friends and work. May Sarton also wrote "Journal of Solitude" and "As we are Now".

In Felix Gilbert's skilled analysis, the figures of Niccolo Machiavelli, whose writing changed the way people think about politics, and Francesco Guicciardini, whose History of Italy is one of the first classics of modern historical writing, provide important clues to interpreting the Renaissance.

The initial two essays, "Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy" and "Central Issues of American Foreign Policy," appeared in the original edition of this volume and have been retained as backdrops for fifteen major addresses delivered by Mr. Kissinger over the past four years. The new selections include a statement to Congress that traces the main lines of détente policy; a review of the step-by-step process of negotiations in the Middle East; an analysis of efforts to achieve accords, with the Soviet Union on strategic arms limitation without imperiling American national security; a speech to the United Nations on the imperative of establishing a balanced global approach to economic development and resource conservation; several papers that candidly appraise prospects for new ties between the United States and the nations of Asia, Africa, and Latin America; and one that sets forth measures to strengthen the bonds among the industrial democracies. In their scope and detail, these documents constitute a remarkable set of designs, blueprints, and working drawings by a master architect of foreign policy.

Munich was the birthplace of Nazism and became the chief cultural shrine of the Third Reich. In exploring the question of why Nazism flourished there, this book provides an account of the cultural roots of the Nazi movement.

Zarlino's Le Istitutioni harmoniche, published in 1558, is one of the most influential music treatises of all time. To his contemporaries it revealed the secrets of composition he had learned from Adrian Willaert, who brought to Italy the polyphonic art of the Netherlands. To the modern scholar Zarlino's treatise illumines the compositional technique of the golden age of vocal polyphony. The essence of this art is contained in Part III, "The Art of Counterpoint," which is here translated into English for the first time.

A complete authoritative encyclopedia of instruments throughout the world.

For the rapidly growing thousands (both amateur and professional) who find the deepest satisfaction of life in playing chamber music, this is the only practical and authoritative guide.Beginning with such elementary problems as who should sit where, what kind of music stands to use, etc., it goes on to such puzzlers as just how loud forte is, how fast an allegro, how and when an inner voice takes over the lead, and similar problems in the works of composers from Haydn to the moderns.Every musical point is illustrated with specific examples, and there are 132 musical quotations in full score.The idea for writing this book was evolved while Ms. Norton was training with Louis Svecenski of the Kneisel Quartet, and the manuscript was carefully gone over and heartily endorsed by Franz Kneisel, leader of the Quartet which set the highest standards of this art in the United States. The dedication of the book to members of the Quartet, three of whom had been the author's teachers, was inevitable. An earlier version of the manuscript was brought out by Carl Fischer in 1925; the present revised version was prepared in 1961-2.

The riveting story of the Germania and its incarnations and exploitations through the ages.

Best-selling author Rory Stewart and political economist Gerald Knaus examine the impact of large-scale interventions, from Bosnia to Afghanistan.