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Through portraits of four figures-Charles Willson Peale, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, William Dunlap, and Noah Webster-Joseph Ellis provides a unique perspective on the role of culture in post-Revolutionary America, both its high expectations and its frustrations.

A reissue of a body of work spanning two decades from one of our most treasured poets.

Drawing upon the clinical expertise of professionals and the personal experiences of those formerly involved in high-intensity mind-control groups, this book is a comprehensive guide to the cult experience.

This energetic and hilarious novel is made even more important by the current final thawing of the long, Communist winter in Czechoslovakia.

"An evocative re-creation of the European political climate of the 1930s ... Large does a fine job of connecting these events." -Kirkus Reviews

The major new work by the best-selling author of T. Rex and the Crater of Doom--a fascinating history.

"Joan Leegant writes stories that last, stories that take root in the soul."-Bret Lott, author of Jewel

"The story is a good one ... for it exposes in an intimate and personal way the qualities of an important social architect of our time." -Dewey Grantham, American Historical Review

"Levelheaded septuagenarian Tish McWhinny, seen before in The Cashmere Kid, has her hands full in this delightful caper set in Vermont." --Publishers Weekly

"'The Woz' built the first [personal computer]-by hand, by himself."-USA Today

Booker Prize-winning author Barry Unsworth's first novel, published for the first time in the United States.

"There is no scientist today whose books I look forward to reading with greater anticipation of enjoyment and enlightenment than Stephen Jay Gould."-Martin Gardner

"One of the great source documents in human history, but one of our greatest Americans... Thrilling reading." -Tillie Olsen

The psychopharmacological treatment of youth calls for knowledge and skill in selecting medications and doses appropriate to the developmental stage of children and teens.

A clear, authoritative guide to the crisis of 2008, its continuing repercussions, and the needed reforms ahead.

Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction, these stories are quirky takes on contemporary life in which animals, not always large, lurk around the edges.

"Superb....[A] richly researched, passionately written book."--William E. Cain, Boston Globe

It was Big Oil's nightmare moment, and the dominoes began falling years before the well was drilled.

"Comprehensive . . .well organized . . . should be carried in every glove compartment of every car that traverses Connecticut highways."-Journal Inquirer, Manchester, Connecticut

The 1920s in Paris are the pivotal years in Hemingway's apprenticeship as a writer, whether sitting in cafes or at the feet of Gertrude Stein.

"One of the few most important books by an American sociologist to appear in a long time. . . .An impressive and very challenging book." -Talcott Parsons, Journal of Sociology

From the pyramids to mortality tables, Galileo to Florence Nightingale, a vibrant history of numbers and the birth of statistics.

"This is cultural history of the first order, and it is liberal and humane history at its very best."-David Cannadine

"Thorough and just. . . . Quietly, surely in touch with its distinguished subject."-Richard Wilbur

"Graff offers a highly readable and down-to-earth perspective on some of the most ballyhooed issues in higher education today... By encouraging us to argue together, he may yet help us to reason together."-Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Bringing together auction theory and negotiation theory in a practical and accessible way, here is an authoritative guide to negotiating deals.

Cutting-edge skills for twenty-first-century learners and educators.

"Brilliant...harrowing...Packs the impact of an exploding mortar shell." -Kai Maristed, Los Angeles Times

"All you have to do is ask 'why' and open to any page. Good luck putting it down." -Alton Brown, host of Good Eats and Iron Chef