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At age 34, Gerald Shea discovered that he had been deaf since childhood despite somehow maintaining a prestigious legal career

From a physician and Emmy-winning chef, an eight-week Mediterranean cooking plan for permanent weight control and protection from diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.

From the author of New York Times bestseller One Year to an Organized Life, the book for anyone too busy to get organized

From one of the nation's top educators, a wise book that shows parents how to create homes where children learn with enthusiasm.

Derived from advice and information from two clinical trials, this back pain handbook includes a fitness and health program, mind-body methods to relax the back, strategies for combating chronic pain, recommendations for pain-relievers and tips for daily activities.

An in-depth, investigative, balanced, and definitive biography of Paul McCartney by the acclaimed author of Down the Highway

"One of the twentieth century's greatest composers, Duke Ellington (1899--1974) led a fascinating life. Beyond Category, the first biography to draw on the vast Duke Ellington archives at the Smithsonia"

From award-winning vegan chef, restauranteur, and coauthor of the 30-MinuteVegan series: recipes showcasing classic European cuisine-made without anyanimal products

The long-awaited reissue of the definitive biography of Jack Kerouac, unwitting avatar of the Beat Generation and author of On the Road.

Introduces us to the rich history and flourishing culture of the "golden age of Islam" in the eighth and ninth centuries.

In these searing profiles the author dissects the lives of fifteen infamous Nazis -- including Hermann Goring, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, Martin Bormann, Ernst Rohm, Hans Frank, Albert Speer, and Hitler himself. He also analyzes the archetypal roles of the officer corps, intellectuals, and women. This fascinating work provides fresh perspectives into how dysfunctional psyches, personal ambitions, and ruthless rivalries impacted the creation and evolution of Hitler's Third Reich.

"Huey Long (1893--1935) was one of the most extraordinary American politicians, simultaneously cursed as a dictator and applauded as a benefactor of the masses. A product of the poor north Louisiana hil"

A journey through modern Iran and Afghanistan that sheds light on present conflicts by tapping the most surprising of sources--a thousand-year-old epic poem

A masterly work of American film and cultural history by a critic who, "like Pauline Kael, has the gift of describing actors with terrific acuity."-New York Times

Now in paperback: 300 letters between Eleanor Roosevelt and her "first friend" shed new light on their legendary, passionate bond.

A fully illustrated account, replete with detailed maps, of one of Robert E. Lee's greatest Civil War successes.

Garbo and Crawford. Ava, Hedy, Judy, Liz epitomized Hollywood''s golden era. With a trembling lip or sultry eye, with a tear or song or husky whisper, these women held moviegoers across America in their sway from the hard times of the 1930s through the booming postwar years to the early sixties. They were royalty and box office, and led pampered public lives—furs, jewels, designer gowns; limousines, flash bulbs, handsome escorts—that captured the national imagination. They also signed seven-year contracts with a morals clause, and the more they slipped, the more the secret abortions, efficient cover-ups, legal legerdemain, and dropped charges bound them to the wizard in their Oz, Louis B. Mayer. The slips are here along with the successes. Here, too, are the Blonde Bombshell Jean Harlow, Million-Dollar Mermaid Esther Williams, Sweater Girl Lana Turner, and bad girl Ava Gardner ("She can''t act. She can''t talk. She''s terrific," declared Mayer after her screen test). From Jeanette MacDonald and Norma Shearer to Princess Grace and Dame Elizabeth Taylor, the sixteen portraits in this lively, photograph-filled volume, each accompanied by the star''s filmography, tell the tales that have long lay hidden behind the gossip and the glories of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer''s glamorous golden girls.

A Da Capo original: Thirty years' worth of music writing by one of the first and greatest rock scribes and a fiercely imaginative cultural critic.

"The portraits of Freud, Shakespeare, Einstein, and Leonardo da Vinci on the cover symbolize a major theme of How We Know --that the creative imagination plays a role in the sciences no less than in the"

"William Ferris, director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, has written a book as deep as the blues: rich in conversation, reference, history, and firsth"

Takes readers through the formative days of Jane's Addiction to their drug-addled break-up and controversial reunion in 2003

The first biography of the musician Elliott Smith, whose heartbreaking songs were rendered all the more haunting by his tragic death

"In The Heart of Rock & Soul, veteran rock critic Dave Marsh offers a polemical guide to the 1,001 greatest rock and soul singles ever made, encompassing rock, metal, R&B, disco, folk, funk, punk, regg"

"Irving Berlin (1888--1989) was unable to read or write music and could only play the piano in the key of F-sharp major; yet, for the first half of the twentieth century he was America's most successful"

"The amazing story and alluring personality of Pocahontas (1595--1617) have endured the enlargement of legend and the distortions of time, as if waiting for Mossiker's skill, scholarship, and sensitivit"

Includes David Ritz's moving account of "The Last Days of Brother Ray" and an updated discography

An in-depth look at gay and lesbian parenting in America

Now in paperback: The first and only military history of the nomads who wreaked havoc on Asia and Europe for more than two millennia.