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Intelligent, talented, and attractive Lisa and Jason Green, a Southern California couple, totally committed to each other, find their relationship undermined when Lisa must stifle her own needs and pr
"My mother was never easy in the world of houses. She was a tinker, a traveler girl who had married a wealthy man. Her name was Agatha Sheehy...There are silences all around my mother's story."So beg
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Using the Star Wars missile defense program as a magnifying glass on his presidency, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Frances FitzGerald gives us a wholly original portrait of Ronald Reagan. Drawing
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Inspired by his Cherokee grandmother's healing ceremonies, Lewis Mehl-Madrona enlightens readers to "alternative" paths to recovery and health. Coyote Medicine isn't about eschewing Western medicine
Gravity-defying sculptures that can only exist in cyberspace...an interactive opera in which members of the audience become part of the performance...fractal images that rival nature's greatest master
The author of Montgomery Clift illuminates America's political culture from the New Deal to the Cold War through the story of her father, a lawyer whose defense of the Hollywood Ten earned him the enm
An enchanting tale of faith, love, and miracles Do miracles occur? That is what smart, handsome Father Frank Moore must determine. When a young girl in Queens is inexplicably cured of a deadly disea
In its fourth edition, Economics Explained continues its announced purpose - to explain that mysterious thing called economics. But there is a new urgency to the book. It is announced in the first se
A candid portrait of Bruno Bettelheim charges that most of the influential psychotherapist's life was marked by deception, faked credentials, exaggerated data, abuse of the children in his care, plagi
In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world
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Originally a radical socialist, the current driving force behind the rise of the Hollywood right recounts how he moved from one set of political convictions to another over the course of thirty years,
Free yourself from destructive behaviorMany of us know that self-destructive patterns are rooted in self-dislike, but few of us understand how to break them. In this wise and compassionate book, best
When a woman's body washes up on an isolated stretch of beach on the southern coast of England, Scotland Yard's Inspector Alan Grant is on the case. But the inquiry into her death turns into a nightm
George Armstrong Custer has been so heavily mythologized that the human being has been all but lost. Now, in the first complete biography in decades, Jeffry Wert reexamines the life of the famous sold
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Discusses modern misconceptions about consciousness, language, knowledge, moral values, happiness, freedom of choice, human nature, society, and human existence
David Herbert Donald's Lincoln is a stunningly original portrait of Lincoln's life and presidency. Donald brilliantly depicts Lincoln's gradual ascent from humble beginnings in rural
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Nation states, asserts the world-renowned business strategist Kenichi Ohmae, are dinosaurs waiting to die. In this profoundly important book Ohmae argues that not only have nation states lost their a
Popol Vuh, the Quiché Mayan book of creation, is not only the most important text in the native languages of the Americas, it is also an extraordinary document of the human imagination. It begin
The first of the author's novels starring the popular Inspector Alan Grant traces the mysterious slaying of a man waiting to see a London musical, whose neighbors in line insist they saw nothing. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
Linus Pauling was a scientific genius, the only winner of two unshared Nobel Prizes. But he was also an original, often controversial thinker whose knowledge encompassed an astonishing range of discip
Companies in the business of providing knowledge -- for profit -- will dominate the 21st-century global marketplace.Can your business compete?In today's fast-paced world, knowledge is doubling nearly
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A collection of works by well-known and emerging Latina writers includes short stories, excerpts from novels, and nonfiction pieces from a range of contributors--Sandra Cisneros, Julia Alvarez, Denise
First published in 1968, The Empty Space is a timeless analysis of theatre, from perhaps the most influential director of the twentieth century. In The Empty Space, groundbreaking director Peter Brook
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Winner of the Minnesota Book Award for Fiction Winner of the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Fiction Member of the National Writer's Voice Project Finalist Los Angeles Times Book Award In A