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A leading psychologist argues that a capacity for fiction is what separates man from beast

An acclaimed historian unravels Brazil's deft geopolitical machinations during World War II, showing how the country became a modern nation by first manipulating, then joining, the Allied powers.

A colourful history of Dada, leading readers through the germination and dissemination of this revolutionary but little-understood artistic movement.

"A serious and acute work.... Weigel's ability to combine the spiritual insights of a believer with the dispassionate analysis of a historian makes Evangelical Catholicism valuable for Catholics and non-Catholics, of all political persuasions, who care about the Church's future."- National Review

"[An] accessible and powerfully argued book."-Washington Post

An entertaining tour of the science of humour and laughter

Democrats and Republicans have two very different visions of America. Which one will make us happier?

"Compelling... [Marrs] neatly capsulizes the plethora of theories offered by critics of the lone-gunman theory."-The Washington Post

A must-read that lays out a road map for how new technologies in genomics, information technology, and mobile medicine may completely change the way we treat and prevent illness.... Highly recommended', Forbes

CSI meets John Allen Paulos-ten cases of the uses and abuses of mathematics in the courtroom

"This is easily the best book on the fall of the Berlin Wall. It reads like a thriller, it's deeply researched and smoothly written."- Fareed Zakaria GPS Book of the Week

An international security expert shows how competitive organizations can get-and stay-ahead by thinking like their adversaries

"If anyone knows anything about the web, where it's been and where it's going, it's David Weinberger.... Too Big To Know is an optimistic, if not somewhat cautionary tale, of the information explosion that is just underway."-Steven Rosenbaum, Forbes

From some of the 20th century's greatest thinkers, essays on topics as diverse as artificial intelligence, evolution, science fiction, philosophy, reductionism, and consciousness

The leading authority on self-mutilation has added a new introduction to the classic text that defined the syndrome for a generation of patients, therapists, and family members

In 1610, the English mariner Henry Hudson set off on a journey to find the Northwest Passage, the water route that Europeans hoped would speed the time of travel to East Asia. But Hudson's search for the Northwest Passage did not go well. This book tells the full story of Hudson and the other 23 men who set sail from London in April 1610.

On August 26, 1835, a fledgling newspaper called the Sun brought to New York the first accounts of remarkable lunar discoveries. A series of six articles reported the existence of life on the moon,including unicorns, beavers that walked on their hind legs, and four-foot-tall flying man-bats. In a matter of weeks it was the most broadly circulated newspaper story of the era, and the Sun , a working-class upstart, became the most widely read paper in the world. An exhilarating narrative history of a divided city on the cusp of greatness, and tale of a crew of writers, editors, and charlatans who stumbled on a new kind of journalism, The Sun and the Moon tells the surprisingly true story of the penny papers that made America a nation of newspaper readers.

Why Marriage? is a tour de force of historical analysis and explanation, essential for anyone eager to understand current political arguments. Los Angeles Times Book Review

A pioneering scholar of the blues explores the folk traditions that predated and shaped this uniquely American music as we know it.

The "compelling" and "devastating"* New York Times best-seller by America's most distinguished living commentator on foreign policy

Now revised and updated--the acclaimed companion volume to the hugely successful Basic Economics, by one of America's most revered economists.

A controversial new theory that the origins of spoken language, music, and art lie in the early communication between mothers and infants

"In a Burkean manner, Mr. Levin enriches through wisdom rather than prescription. He gives us something more than a manual of past lessons-namely, the historical framework to achieve greater understanding."-Wall Street Journal

"Pearl Harbor...is short and moves forward like a rocket, propelled by readable prose and a laser-sharp focus.... Gillon digs deep into the details that humanize FDR."- Christian Science Monitor

"Elizabeth Gregory has discovered the real truth behind all the false alarms over delayed motherhood: that older mothers tend to be very happy with their decision to have children later in life. A positive, optimistic message for women: you can wait until you are ready to be a good parent."-Ann Crittenden, author of The Price of Motherhood

A new Tie-in edition of the acclaimed biography of Masters and Johnson, to coincide with the forthcoming Showtime series based on the book.

"An excellent survey of the Internet's major fault lines."-Wall Street Journal

A bold proposal to harness capitalism for the sake of environmentalism-a former banker and an environmental writer argue that making money and saving nature go hand in hand

The story of our world, how it got that way, and where it is going-using only the thousand most common words in English