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The distinguished author of Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory returns with a searing examination of a new generation of evangelical leaders who have hijacked the Christian faith on behalf of the Republican Party

The shocking story of an impending nuclear devastation and the brave people who fought against it

Beloved novelist and playwright Thulani Davis takes a journey through her ancestral history and finds tartan plaid, unlikely lovers, and Confederate soldiers

A renowned psychiatrist and gerontologist draws from more than thirty years of research to show that surprising positive changes in our brains have the powerful potential to enhance, not diminish, our lives after fifty

The widely acclaimed, award-winning history of the cigarette.

Bestselling author and bold social commentator, Randall Robinson explores the singularly curious and ultimately tragic history of Haiti.

A readable book for authors, this guide clarifies the intricacies of publishing agreements, explaining good and bad clauses and supplying model contracts for books, articles, work-for-hire deals, and collaborations.

Hunger is both a natural and an unnatural human condition. Sharman Apt Russell explores the range of this primal experience

The New York Times bestseller that exposes the conservative agenda to put politics ahead of scientific truth

Stanley Milgram was one of the most innovative scientists of our time. Creator of the famous Obedience Experiments carried out at Yale in the early 1960s, and originator of the 'six degrees of separation' theory, Milgram continues to be an intriguing figure in psychology and beyond. This is a biography of Milgram.

Explores the roots and causes of our increasingly voyeuristic society and argues against using the First Amendment to safeguard our right to peer into others' lives.

"Are the Japanese faceless clones who march in lockstep to the drums beaten by big business and the bureaucrats of MITI, Japan's miracle-working ministry of international trade and industry? Can Japane"

Inspiration and guidance for aspiring mathematicians

Inspiration and advice for grown-up daughters on making peace with Mom while there's still time-from the bestselling author of Surrendering to Marriage

A collection of Crouch's greatest works

Aside from the Constitution itself, there is no more important document in American politics and law than the Federalist Papers-the series of pamphlets written by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison to explain the meaning of the proposed Constitution to the American people and persuade them of its importance. These papers provide a window into the framers' thoughts on the most divisive issues of American government-the powers of the President, the dividing line between Congress's authority and that of the states, the role of the Supreme Court, and the importance of the Bill of Rights. Liberty's Blueprint offers an essential introduction to how the Federalist Papers were written, the philosophical thinking that shaped the Constitution, how the framers meant the various clauses to be understood, and why they are still vitally important today.

A fast-paced, brilliantly researched expose of the homosexuality of Hitler and his entourage

A superstar scholar reinterprets the historical significance of key figures in African-American history reveals their enduring relevance for a new generation.

The definitive book on ancient military principles that is strikingly relevant to the War on Terror, the war in Iraq, and the rise of China as a geopolitical power

Father Neuhaus looks beyond recent controversies and proposes a forward-thinking way of being Catholic in America

Personal fabricators are about to revolutionize the world just as personal computers did a generation ago, and Fab shows us how

The story of the discovery of America as a product of the long sweep of history

The author of the award-winning Can't Stop, Won't Stop assembles the most innovative and provocative voices in hip-hop to assess the future of the most important cultural movement of our time

The founder and director of the Yale Repertory theatre, as well as Harvard's American Repertory theatre, and a drama critic for more than thirty years, Robert Brustein is a living legend in theatrical circles. Letters to a Young Actor not only inspires the multitudes of struggling dramatists out pounding the pavement, but also reinvigorates the very state of the art of acting itself.

An eminent teacher and writer explores an idea both simple and complex, both multidisciplinary and unifying-the story of symmetry

"Shaddock makes sense of intersubjectivity, the functional paradigm shift in highbrow psychotherapy, as both a way of thinking about our psychological lives and a way of doing clinical work. Applying i"

Carol Stack tells the story of a little-known reverse exodus of half a million black Americans in the cities of the North, who are returning to the rural South, back to "persistent poverty counties". The author interweaves the human story with wider economic and social analysis of migration.

A wild ride to the outer limits of the virtual world, where real money meets fantasy gaming

What kind of man deliberately hurts the woman he loves? Drawing on his pathbreaking studies of more than seven hundred abusive men, as well as therapy with hundreds more, Dutton paints a dramatic and surprising portrait of the man who assaults his intimate partner.

An accessible and well-informed tour through a little-known, important aspect of race in American history