Critical Theories of the State is a clear and accessible survey of radical perspectives on the modern state. By focusing on Marxist theory and its variations, particularly as applied to advanced indu
Dazzling in its structure and shattering in its emotional force, Graham Swift's Ever After spans two centuries and settings from the adulterous bedrooms of postwar Paris to the contemporary entangleme
Here's the story of how Truckbox Al McClintock, a small-town greaser whose claim to fame was hitting a baseball clean across the Pembina River, almost got a tryout with the genuine St. Louis Cardinals
Chronicles the author's stroll down the "Great White Way" accompanied by two eccentric guides--a postmodern punk and a cross-dressing hooker--who provide insight into the shocking and saddening popula
Out of This World interweaves the history of a blighted family with the tragic and ludicrous history of the twentieth century. Its alternating narrators are a father and daughter--each obsessed with t
"Terrifying...Impressive...A challenging esay that justifies the feminist revival."THE NEW YORK TIMESBestselling author and feminist scholar Marilyn French has written a shocking and fascinating analy
A guide to maintaining relationships while in recovery shows readers how to change their familys' perceptions, explain recovery to friends and co-workers, say "no," and get the most out of a twelve-st
The Sweet-Shop Owner is set during a single June day in the life of an outwardly unremarkable man whose inner world proves to be exceptionally resonant. As he tends to his customers, Willy Chapman, th
A look at the relationship between the cosmos and human beings explores the complexity of the human brain and what constitutes real intelligence and the nature of consciousness
In Martin Luther King's now legendary "I Have a Dream" speech, he hoped for a time when "little children... will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." It is
What drives the artist to create masterpieces and the scientist to forge breakthrough theories? This is the fundamental question that British psychiatrist Anthony Storr sets out to answer in The Dynam
On the planet of Elsewhere, the Council had??always enforced the governing of each province in??the manner the people had chosen, so long as each??respected its neighbors' local customs--and so long??
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
An account of the rise and collapse of the Bingham family of Kentucky chronicles three generations of a newspaper dynasty and the battles that destroyed the family
This book puts an end to unnecessary consumer spending by telling how to lower automobile insurance premiums, choose a good HMO or PPO health plan, reduce homeowner's insurance premiums, determine the
Here is a unique, business-oriented approach to job hunting which provides the reader with step-by-step instructions in finding a new and/or improved position. Wendleton explains why the "tried and tr
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
A Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, a Wall Street broker, a survivor of Auschwitz, college students, scientists, and others are only a few of the individuals interviewed for this this oral history of
Prayers across the centuries is a family album of remnants from the lives of God's people over years of struggle, victory, desire, and exultation. Spanning Old Testament times through the twentieth c
A guide to the essential competitive business strategies for everyone, at any level of the corporate ladder, is illustrated with savvy advice and personal anecdotes
In a style and format that is as helpful as it is hopeful, Beebe offers creative, parent-tested, and doctor-approved solutions to the everyday problems of new parents, ranging from the infant's day of
From cartoons to academic essays to tabloid journalism, Madonna has been interpreted in almost every way possible. Here is an original collection of these writings that is almost as diverse as the Mat
Offers a chilling, tragic, and frightening portrait of the enigmatic young man who murdered John Lennon in December 1980 and answers many lingering questions about Chapman's motives and the killing it
A luminous collection of interwoven stories, Once in Europa is a portrait of two worlds—a small Alpine village bound to the earth and by tradition, and the restless, future-driven culture that will in
Beginning in the ancient world, this colorful, fast-paced saga enriches our understanding of the Jews and their impact on the world. With drama no fiction can match, master storyteller Howard Fast tra
EMOTIONS are a gift from God, created to give our lives richness and meaning. But, on the other hand, they can warp us and confuse us--and make us forever fourteen.Whether stemming from a crippled se
Describes Williams' professional relationships with Jimmy Hoffa, Armand Hammer, Joseph McCarthy, and Sam Giancana and how he advised the Washington Post to print the Pentagon Papers
Follows Scooter into young manhood at a Southern college during the 1930s as he discovers new friends, new ideas, and new ways to cope with the complexities of life
At the start of this fiendishly comic and suspenseful novel, a mild-mannered English academic chuckles as he watches his wife commit adultery. The action takes place before she met him. But lines betw
In a provocative study that bristles with contemporary relevance, Himmelfarb demonstrates that the material and moral dimensions of poverty were inseparable in the minds of late Victorians, be they ra
The conclusion of the three-volume "Into Their Labours" follows Zsuzsa and Sucus, two peasants living in the global city of Troy, who meet and embark on an odyssey of love, desperation, passion and su
When film director Brian De Palma invited author Julie Salamon to follow him on the set of The Bonfire of the Vanities, he had no idea that the $50-million movie would become one of Hollywood's bigges
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
On Moon Beach, a seaside sunbelt, the elderly who flock there are preyed upon by the funeral industry that controls the region, an industry headed by the omnipotent and elegant Neville Creed
Richly plotted, animated by beautifully realized characters, and steeped in magnificent old-world detail, Malkeh and Her Children is the captivating epic of the remarkable Mandelkern family as they we
These readings, which were collected in The Black Scholar magazine (where Chrisman and Allen are editors), include diverse black perspectives on the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court Justice Clare
Interviews with workers and American management at the Mazda plant in Detroit reflect the differences between Japanese and American cultural attitudes and business approaches
