Combining his own near-death experience that caused him to confront his mortality with insight culled from philosophy, psychology, literature, and theology, a penetrating meditation delves into the ma
In Basic Freud, noted psychologist Michael Kahn shows that even in the age of psychopharmaceuticals and cognitive therapy, Freud's major insights into the unconscious remain unsurpassed tools for und
Focusing on three representative communities on Long Island, this compelling portrait of a uniquely American phenomenon lays bare the origins and current condition of suburbia in the United States.
In Assessing the Financial Benefits of Human Resource Development, Richard A. Swanson offers a comprehensive approach to determine the actual and forecasted financial results of any HRD initiative. Pa
More than a quarter century after Bob Woodward introduced his Scotch-drinking, cigarette-smoking, garage-skulking friend and source in All the President's Men, the public remains enduringly engrossed
In American Culture, American Tastes, Michael Kammen leads us on an entertaining, thought-provoking tour of America's changing tastes, uses of leisure, and the shifting perceptions that have accompani
In Moral Judgment, James Q. Wilson demonstrates how our judicial system has compromised its obligation to discriminate between right and wrong. Citing highly publicized verdicts, he makes an erudite
Most models of human development end abruptly with adolescence. But, according to the internationally renowned theorist and researcher Michael Rutter, we continue to mature throughout our life span. I
This instructive and entertaining social history of American newspapers shows that the very idea of impartial, objective “news” was the social product of the democratization of political,
Edward's controversial theory about the growing number of supervisory personnel argues that the decline of the individual employer and the rise of impersonal bureaucracies forced the managers to estab
Piaget’s influence on psychology has been profound. His pathbreaking investigations and theories of cognitive development have set child psychology moving in entirely new directions. His bold s
Unlock the secrets to understanding yourself and others with the surprising science of the human minds greatest power: introspection. It happens to everyone: You are asked a questioneven something you
The first biography in a quarter century of the intellectual father of Southern secessionJohn C. Calhoun is among the most notorious and enigmatic figures in American political history. First elected
A groundbreaking argument about the link between autism and ingenuityWhy can humans alone invent? In The Pattern Seekers, Cambridge University psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen makes a case that autism i
A Chernobyl survivor and award-winning historian "mercilessly chronicles the absurdities of the Soviet system" in this "vividly empathetic" account of the worst nuclear accident in history (The Wall S
How the principles of biological innovation can help us overcome creative challenges in art, business, and scienceIn Life Finds a Way, biologist Andreas Wagner reveals the deep symmetry between innova
"A profoundly significant exploration of how Europeans--both Germans and those under German occupation--struggled to make sense of the conflict." --Richard Overy, Wall Street Journal In An Iron Wind,
In The Collapse of Parenting, internationally acclaimed author Leonard Sax argues that rising levels of obesity, depression, and anxiety among young people can be traced to parents abdicating their au
Evolutionary biologist Schaik and historian Michel place the Bible within the context of human social evolution--specifically in the shift from small groups of migratory hunter-gatherers to large popu
Revolutionary when it was first published in 2003, The Two-Income Trap remains disturbingly relevant today. In this expose, Senator Elizabeth Warren and financial consultant Amelia Tyagi show that mod
In this remarkable exploration of the Catholic world, the preeminent Catholic theologian George Weigel offers a luminous collection of letters to young Catholics, not-so-young Catholics, and curious s
What can’t neuroscience tell us about ourselves? Since fMRI?functional magnetic resonance imaging?was introduced in the early 1990s, brain scans have been used to help politicians understand and manip
As a nine-year-old Tehrani schoolgirl during the Iranian Revolution, Nazila Fathi watched her country change before her eyes. The revolutionaries?most of them poor, uneducated, and radicalized?seized
In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados,
A celebrated mathematician, explaining why mathematical problems exist, what drives mathematicians to solve them, and why their efforts matter in the context of science as a whole, presents a fascinat
"The Holocaust has long seemed incomprehensible, a monumental crime that beggars our powers of description and explanation. Historians have probed the many sources of this tragedy, but no account has
"In the early eighteenth century, at the peak of the Enlightenment, an unlikely team of European scientists and naval officers set out on the world's first international, cooperative scientific expedi
In The Spinoza Problem, Irvin Yalom spins fact and fiction into an unforgettable psycho-philosophical novel. A psychiatrist with a deep interest in philosophical issues, Yalom jointly tells the story
A report on China's aggressive global crusade to secure natural resources offers insight into the way commodity markets work while profiling China's economic development goals and how they are influen
In Arsenal of Democracy, historian and public intellectual Julian Zelizer shows how internal politics have influenced American foreign policy since the Cold War. Rejecting the notion that, prior to t
The first years of human life are more important than we ever realized. In Scared Sick, Robin Karr-Morse connects psychology, neurobiology, endocrinology, immunology, and genetics to demonstrate how c
In this penetrating biography, Timothy J. Colton?one of the English-speaking world’s foremost experts on Russia?traces the life and struggles of Russia’s first popularly elected president, Boris Yelts
In the early eighteenth century, at the peak of the Enlightenment, an unlikely team of European scientists and naval officers set out on the world’s first international, cooperative scientific expedit
Climate change, the energy crisis, nuclear proliferation---many of the most urgent problems of the twenty-first century require scientific solutions, yet America is paying less and less attention to
Opening another drawer in his Cabinet of Curiosities, renowned mathematics professor Ian Stewart presents a new medley of games, paradoxes, and riddles in Professor Stewart’s Hoard of Mathemati
The First World War was the overwhelming disaster from which everything else in the twentieth century stemmed. Fourteen million combatants died, four empires were destroyed, and even the victors̵
Walks the reader through the Chinese business environment, including the sometimes contradictory plans of the government; the effects of Chinese economic power on worldwide business; and how the two m
Pocket versions of the Constitution of the United States of America abound, as do multivolume commentaries, scholarly histories of its writing, and political posturings of various clauses. But what i
A revisionist account which claims that, archaic and primeval though the music may sound, “Delta blues” emerged in the late twentieth century, the culmination of a longstanding white fascination with
Armed with a trove of previously unreleased archives, Edward J. Renehan Jr. offers a compelling portrait of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who built large shipping and rail enterprises into cornerstones of the
