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To "fight for your rights," or anyone else's, is not just to debate principles but to haggle over budgets.

"These two dozen essays by experts ranging from Stephen Jay Gould to Andrea Dworkin are an excellent guide to the post-Dolly world." --Chicago Tribune, Choice Selections of 1998

"Schultz's lively writing is perfectly suited to the exciting and controversial Yankee cavalry raid against Richmond, Va., in late winter 1864. . . . The subject and Schultz's lucid prose make this a great addition to any Civil War library."-Publishers Weekly

"The definitive account of Andrew Johnson's impeachment and of the dramatic events that first put a president on trial before the Senate." - Eric Foner

An all-in-one compendium of easy techniques for all kinds of calculations, from personal finance to home improvement.

The enterprising Vermont sleuth Tish McWhinny - whom Booklist calls "an absolutely first-rate companion" - returns in her fifth Vermont mystery, on the trail of a murderer at a local dog show.

"An enlightening peek at the inner workings of a large corporation trying to reinvent itself. . . . It's rare to find an auto book that explains the process of creating a car with so much color and detail."-Business Week (a Best Business Book of 1997)

"[Jones's] painstakingly researched volume is an invaluable antidote to those who argue that our shameful past has no relevance to our perplexing present." -David Kusnet, Baltimore Sun

"An excellent and compelling overview of childhood depression by two of the field's most distinguished clinician-scholars."-Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D., author of An Unquiet Mind

"Eleanor Wilson Orr's book makes a major contribution toward our understanding of the ways in which language differences can affect the performance of black students in fields that do not seem to be closely connected to language skills". -John B. Slaughter, former director, National Science Foundation

Winner of the 1995 National Poetry Series, judged and selected by Heather McHugh.

"Vintage Lasch.... One of the refreshments of reading him is that he states his beliefs outright."-Andrew Delbanco, New York Times Book Review

"She showed me what one set-on-fire human being can do to shift the consciousness of the world." -Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking

From the pages of The Baffler, the most vital and perceptive new magazine of the nineties, sharp, satirical broadsides against the Culture Trust.

"This wonderfully instructive collection of journal writings, notebooks, jottings . . . , workbook fragments leads us into the corners of the mind where poetry hides."-Miami Herald

"[A] wealth of practical guidelines to enhance the pleasures of life." -Jane E. Brody, New York Times "With humor and personal anecdotes, [Skinner] suggest ways to shape an older person's environment so that the imperfections of old age present as few intrusions as possible." -New Orleans Times-Picayune

Selected from an extensive nationwide search, this book of fifteen stories by American writers twenty-five years old and younger introduces a new generation of literary talent.

"[A] sweeping narrative, beautifully written and scrupulously evenhanded, [that] does full justice to Stevenson and his people. . . . Ambitious, elegiac, and provocative."--Richard Norton Smith, Chicago Tribune, front page review

Considering the playwright and his work, the author theorizes that Shakespeare's elusive personality is a result of his supremacy as a dramatist-that he submerged his identity in his characters-and assesses evolving meanings of the plays and poems.

Beginning with Germany's social situation after World War I, David Schoenbaum shows how Hitler improvised a program that apparently offered something to everyone--above all, the mirage of a classless society.

"A small, sophisticated, elegantly sentimental journey through a New Hampshire village summer. Our companions are an aging poet, who is sad because he can no longer write-he has lost the joy he used to have in simply being alive-and a young, mischievous female donkey, who is sad because she can't run and play-she has a touch of arthritis. . . . There is a moral, of course, but any moral looks dull next to the simple happiness of the old poet and his long-eared muse."-The New Yorker

May Sarton describes living at her eighteenth-century house in Nelson, New Hampshire-how she acquired it, how it and the garden became part of her.

An examination of John Dewey's ideas and influence, aiming to offer new insight into Dewey's character and achievements.

"Carefully reasoned . . . dramatic. . . . [Moldeas] book should be read, not so much for the irrefutability of its conclusions as for the way the author has brought order out of a chaotic tale and turned an appalling tatter of history into an emblem of our misshapen times."-Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times

"A unique blend of personal narrative and scientific discovery, White Gloves reveals the centrality of autobiographical memory to consciousness and cognition." -Peter Salovey, Yale University, author of The Remembered Self

"A loving eulogy . . . a powerful and wrenching book." -Los Angeles Times

Impersonal forces do not make economic decisions: we do. And what we decide not only determines our society's material well-being but also reflects ethical choices.

Here is the third in Norton's colorful reissues of Adrienne's popular guides to learning languages.

Reissued in new paperback format and design

"[Told with] learning and verve. . . . A scintillating introduction to this troubled French decade."-Charles S. Maier, New York Times Book Review