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The best-selling enfant terrible of the Reagan revolution offers advice to today's budding conservatives--the very people he sees as the true "radicals" of tomorrow

Renowned linguist George Lakoff pairs with psychologist Rafael Nunez in the first book to provide a serious study of the cognitive science of mathematical ideas.

This worldwide history of circumcision, from ancient times to the present, looks at the procedure as initiation, religious and social ritual, and indicator of ethnic and social status

"This classic work is a monumental, integrated view of man's search for an understanding of the inner reaches of the mind. In an account that is both exhaustive and exciting, the distinguished psychiat"

This book offers all clinicianspsychiatrists, social workers, psychologists, nurses, physicians, and family therapistsa way to use language to help patients resolve bodily symptoms. It avoids the stigmatization that patients and families so often experienceand the frustration clinicians feelwhen struggling to find answers for mind-body problems.

From one of the great iconoclasts of modern biology, Lynn Margulis, a groundbreaking new theory of the origins of species

Stern presents a major synthesis of the newly exploding field of infant mental health and creates a new model of treatment. He shows the critical elements of any parent-infant clinical system: the parents' representations of the relationship with the baby, their overt interactions, the infant's representations of these interactions, and the role of the therapist.

America's inner cities, recovering from pervasive crime and social disorder that plagued them only a decade ago, are now revived - producing results beyond expectations and reawakening America's toughest neighborhoods

An exploration of the battles and tactics of the air war in the Pacific, including discussion of combatants, their morale, their planes, living conditions, and leadership.

Chosen by the American College of Healthcare Executives as the James A. Hamilton book of the year, Market-Driven Health Care is a must read for everyone concerned about the U.S. health care system.

Where Stonehenge's giant bluestones come from? Was the fall of the Roman Empire hastened by lead poisoning? How did amber get from the Baltic to Belize? In exploring these and other historical enigmas

"Here one of our leading literary scholars looks back on her own life in the classroom, and discovers how much of what she learned there needs to be unlearned. Jane Tompkins' memoir shows how her educa"

"Widely acclaimed in both the mainstream and Jewish press, Jewish Power by J.J. Goldberg offers an engaging and provocative portrait of the people, institutions, and ideas that make up organized Jewish"

An assortment of scholars and practitioners in law and related disciplines raise basic questions, challenging ideals like the separation of law from politics, economics, religion, and culture. They address such issues contextually and in a historical perspective to explain and critique the law.

[Crouch's] personality, his persona, manifests itself with such force that one is compelled to enter into a kind of active dialogue... Animated and stimulating. -Washington Post

This book will be a godsend to those affected directly or indirectly by this disease. - Psychology Today

An eye-opening look at the man whose notoriety over Watergate and whose accomplishments in foreign policy have made us foget that he was one of our most innovative modern presidents on matters of dome

"Beautiful.... A fascinating tale of science and religion, one that provides further perspective on the plight of Islamic science today."- The New Republic

Merging cognitive science with educational agenda, Gardner makes an eloquent case for restructuring our schools by showing just how ill-suited our minds and natural patterns of learning are to the prevailing modes of education. This reissue includes a new introduction by the author.

Acclaimed historian Michael S. Neiberg provides a revealing new look at the drama surrounding the Liberation of Paris in 1944, as the Allies struggled to reclaim Europe, Hitler plotted Paris's destruction, and a handful of conspirators strove to save the City of Lights.

A Nobel Laureate physicist argues that ours is not an age of information but an age of disinformation and ignorance, where access to knowledge is becoming increasingly restricted and even criminalized.

Usually, private ownership creates wealth, but too much ownership has the opposite effect - it creates gridlock. The leading edge of innovation requires the assembly of separately owned resources. But gridlock is blocking economic growth all along the wealth creation frontier. This title offers insights into how to spot gridlock in operation.

An expose of the virulent, long-standing anti-Semitism among the highest levels of the American military

A lesson in critical thinking and a warning to look more deeply into data before believing the latest hot story about the battle of the sexes. -Boston Globe

A best-selling minister and social activist offers an uplifting vision of what it means to be an evangelical and offers loving guidance to all of those who wish to lead a genuinely Christian life in a confusing world

"Bold, counterintuitive, and cathartic... Alterman is ready for a bar fight, and he comes out swinging."New York Times Book Review

Traces the long history of American efforts to thwart terrorism, from World War II to the Munich Games hostage-taking to the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993.