"Engrossing and provocative." Library JournalBestselling author Gay Talese's exploration into the hidden and changing sex lives of Americans from all walks of life shocked the world when it was first
Just like humans, puppies change enormously--and enormously fast--in their first year. With tips on how to find and visit a veterinarian, puppy-proof the home and teach the puppy to obey, this is one
Everywhere we turn there are choices to be made. Like many people, you may set your priorities by making a mental list: God first; family second; church third. But, according to Dr. J. Grant Howard, "
"When inquiring minds want to know, there is someone to turn to for an answer."WALL STREET JOURNALCecil Adams's first two books covered everything from the real lyrics to "Louie, Louie," to whatever b
In her knowing and beautifully written first novel, Indrani Aikath-Gyaltsen transports us to rural India, where four extraordinary women confront their fates, as a family and as individuals. Self-suff
The author of The Official JAP Handbook scandalizes her proper Jewish parents with this humorous recovery book filled with exercises, quizzes, and scads of advice. Original. 30,000 first printing. $30
This grand tour of First Amendment law underlines the intimate connection between free expression and democratic values as it leads us through the most treacherous and emotionally charged cases in Ame
First published to great success in 1979, and now reissued with an updated Preface, Leave Yourself Alone is a book Eugenia Price’s readers will want to add to their personal collection of her writings
First Published in 1962, A Woman’s Choice is chock-full of Eugenia Price’s practical and wise suggestions on how women can participate with God in the day-to-day business of living through their probl
This is the first book to examine the unique ways in which gay men and lesbians make the journey toward the psychic wholeness and balance needed in every life—a process C. G. Jung called individuatio
In the tradition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise and Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City, a first novel that brilliantly reflects life in the '90s. It is the story of Alex, a native
This book presents the first analytical account in English of major developments within Byzantine culture, society and the state in the crucial formative period from c.610-717. The seventh century saw
"Certainly, if I am obliged to bring religion into after-dinner toasts (which indeed does not seem quite the thing), I shall drink -- to the Pope, if you please -- still, to Conscience first, and to t
Traces the life of the Polish union organizer who was instrumental in gaining government recognition for Solidarity, and won the Nobel Prize, and in 1990 became Poland's first democratically elected p
"One parent is worth a thousand teachers."--Chinese Proverb. The sound, practical advice found in this worthwhile guide will help parents--a child's first and most important teachers--instill in their
For over 2,000 years women have been writing love poetry. Here is the first anthology of love poems written only by women. Poets from all ages and all parts of the world, expressing love not only for
First published in 1911, Mysticism remains the classic in its field and was lauded by The Princeton Theological Review as "brilliantly written [and] illuminated with numerous well-chosen extracts ...
Professor of Education at Brown University, William Damon offers the first, much-needed overview of the evolution and nurturance of children's moral understanding and behavior from infancy through ado
When Opus Posthumous first appeared in 1957, it was an appropriate capstone to the career of one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. It included many poems missing from Stevens's C
Translated by Hillel Halkin, this is a remarkably diverse and immensely entertaining gathering of Jewish legends and the first worldwide anthology of Jewish folktales.??It draws from both traditional
This book is both a fascinating account of dream therapy and an exploration of the symbolism of the hare in myth and fable around the world. John Layard, a British Jungian analyst, first recounts his
A close friend and associate of Anthony de Mello shares for the first time not only personal conversations and reminiscences, but also de Mello's own words as recorded during a 15-day retreat in India
Since its historic first issue back in 1895, Field & Stream magazine has published several thousand articles on trout fishing -- far more than on any other fish. The very best of these writings ha
"This extraordinary book . . . is a reminder . . . of the sins of suppression and untruth that have been and can be committed in the name of American journalism . . . One of the last first-person stat
He Was a young American soldier -- and the most powerful man in a remote rural District of Vietnam.In the spring of 1969, First Lieutenant David Donovan arrived in the Mekong Delta of South Vietnam to
A mouth-watering selection of recipes for all occasions Nika Hazelton’s Pasta Cookbook contains more than a hundred recipes from a first lady of the culinary world. Here is a tantalizing selection of
The Winning Edge is the first nutrition book that's both scientifically sound and practical. In clear layman's language it shows you how the right choice of food can dramatically improve your athletic
In The Modernization of China, an interdisciplinary team of scholars collaborate closely to provide the first systematic, integrated analysis of China in transformation--from an agrarian-based to an u
This fascinating new book reflects the results of the turmoil and change in the religions of America since Leo Rosten first wrote about them. The first section consists of nineteen articles by distin
First published in France In 1947, Merleau-Ponty's essay was in part a response to Arthur Koestler's novel, Darkness at Noon, and in a larger sense a contribution to the political and moral debates of
