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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

Everything we want from a show business biography: fertile cultural history, high-minded artistic evaluation--and a lot of terrific gossip along the way.--Washington Post

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.

First time in paperback: An all-encompassing chronicle of African Americans' in the armed forces of the United States

Now in paperback: the Lambda Literary Award Finalist about "a sophisticated, overheated lesbian world in Paris in the first decades of the twentieth century. A great story, beautifully told." -Edmund White.

First time in paperback: More than 80 rock 'n' roll writings by the likes of Pete Townshend, Lou Reed, and Frank Zappa--

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

A smart, scathing look at the most hell-bent performers of our time: Here are profiles of everyone you'd expect (and a few you wouldn't)-Brian Wilson, Miles Davis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Sid Vicious, and Kurt Cobain. "Kent matters because he wrote about rock better than anyone before or since." -Tony Parsons, The Daily Telegraph

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"

New in paperback: The story of the mind behind the monster (and the monster within the mind)-a tale of obsession and hero worship in Victorian England

"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"

"The films of William Wyler (1902--1981) include some of the most memorable and honored motion pictures of all time; Jezebel, The Letter, The Little Foxes, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Heiress, Dete"

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

"For nearly thirty years Frank Zappa (1940--1993) pursued an idiosyncratic but influential course in music--rock, jazz, and classical composer (releasing over fifty albums); founder of the Mothers of Inv"

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.

Argues that most forms of therapy practised today include some idea that Wilhelm Reich pioneered. This biography - written by a former patient, student and assistant of Reich - reveals how the same "life functionalism" that Reich studied brought him personal isolation and death in prison.

A psychologically wise guide to helping multiracial children of all ages develop confidence and a healthy understanding of their uniqueness

"The Gallic campaigns firmly established Julius Caesar (100 B.C.--44 B.C.) as one of the greatest commanders of all time. After success there, Caesar turned his loyal army back toward Rome. Crossing the"

"Twentieth century music has been remarkable for its pluralism. The various styles--atonality, neo-classicism, nationalism, serialism, jazz, computer music, minimalism, electronics, folklorism, "happeni"