An expert guide to how conversation works, from how we know when to speak to why huh is a universal word.
The director and founding member of the Houston Galveston Institute documents the emergence of postmodern narrative therapy and shows how linguistics and social discourse influence the changing culture of psychotherapy. Anderson shows how the therapist can empower the patient through the use of narrative and discourse, thereby creating a collaborative environment.
A rising historian's narrative chronicle of race in America, and the successes, failures, and stalemates of black leaders in the past fifty years
An acclaimed historian presents a dual biography of Theodore Roosevelt and New York City, showing how Roosevelt's identity and politics were forged in the booming city of his birth.
Beautifully designed and carefully curated, a fascinating collection of the things that shaped the way we live and play in America
"American power and a pervasive globalization are the central realities of today's world, and the source of its thorniest dilemmas. Yet while America's unprecedented might should be the source of globa"
The surprising and counterintuitive origins of America's racial crisis
A sweeping, authoritative history of the expansion of slavery in America, showing how forced migrations radically altered the nation's economic, political, and cultural landscape.
An expanded edition of a classic intellectual history of Zionism, now covering the rise of religious Zionism since the 1970s
From a leading authority on race and public policy, a deeply researched account of how families rise and fall today
A fully updated edition of the classic business reference book on product development from a world renowned innovation management scholar
"This is not only one of the most important works on medical ethics yet written. It also breaks through the frontiers of historiography to provide a convincing psychological interpretation of the Third Reich and the crimes of National Socialism."-New York Review of Books
What we can learn from Atlanta's struggle to reinvent itself in the 21st Century
An acclaimed novelist and critic argues that video games are the most vital art form of our time
In the heart of Europe's current crisis, one of the continent's foremost statesmen issues a clarion call to radically remake the European Union in the mould of the United States' own federal government.
The definitive biography of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture, leader of the only successful slave revolt in world history
"A priceless manual for anyone seriously interested on the restaurant world. Concise, pointed, informative, and candid, it explains simply to the neophyte chef the difficult but wonderful and rewarding world of the kitchen."-Jacques Pepin
From distinguished Catholic scholar George Weigel, a memoir of his relationship with Pope John Paul II
An acclaimed music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz
From one of our foremost experts in Ottoman history, a biography of the 16th century Russian slave who rose from a concubine to become the only queen in the history of the Ottoman Empire
A rising star in philosophy examines the cultural, social, and scientific interpretations of love to answer one of our most enduring questions
A long-time chief data scientist at Amazon shows how open data can make everyone, not just corporations, richer
"The best single treatment of psychoanalytic theories, classical and current."-Choice
Two award-winning scholars offer a bold critique of the Constitution and argue that it lies at the root of our government dysfunction
"A must-read for any parent of boys."-Dr. Mehmet Oz
An illuminating biography of Alfonso X, the 13th-century philosopher-king whose affinity for Islamic culture left an indelible mark on Western civilization
How filling life with play-whether soccer or lawn mowing, counting sheep or tossing Angry Birds-forges a new path for creativity and joy in our impatient age
A bestselling historian holds our political choices up to the glare of social science to show just how illogical our voting habits are-and how we can fix them, and by extension, our democracy
"[A] ground-breaking new history of the Vatican-German Resistance.... Writing with the craft of a novelist and the conscience of a meticulous scholar, Riebling has produced a masterly account." -National Review
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