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FROM THE PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF A NAKED SINGULARITY Led by a renegade young owner out for revenge against her traitorous family, the Paterson Pork-New Jersey's only Indoor...

This book is a major history of the dramatic and enduring changes in the daily lives of poor European women and men in the nineteenth century. Rachel G. Fuchs conveys...

In Homelessness Is a Housing Problem , Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States....

Enchanting classic of a small boy and his beloved toy rabbit. Poignant tale highlighted by delicate full color illus. specially created for this all-new edition.

The astonishing phenomenon of bioluminescence is brought to life in vivid detail by medical illustrator Jennifer N. R. Smith. The natural world is an infinite source of wonder and the...

Here is the story of Ice Age beasts as told from the unique perspective of Maisie the woolly mammoth. Maisie's Ice Age 'who's who' reveals the defining characteristics of some...

This book teaches pre-schoolers how to describe size simply by having them ask the question 'Who's the biggest?' to the pair of objects on every spread. The fun is in...

How Many Kisses? begins by inviting the reader to give one kiss to the cat, two kisses to the dogs, three kisses to the flowers and so on, following a...

Play a game of hide-and-squeak with all of New York's mice. They're flocking to the famous sights, so make sure you look twice! A stripy cat and Marilyn Mouse peep...

This book thinks you're a scientist explores seven key scientific areas in the Science Museum's new interactive gallery for children: force and motion, electricity and magnetism, earth and space, light,...

Did you know that the word cockatoo comes from the Malay word kakatua? Or that most cockatoos are left-footed? Did you know their closest relatives are parrots; and that they're...

Everybody has a Venice they love. For the history, for the art, for the sheer beauty of the city. So what is left to be discovered? Quite a lot. This...

A long, long time ago, Santa Claus never visited Australia. The vast Australian countryside was so dark, he couldn't see it from his sleigh. Then one Christmas morning, just before...

The story of the elephant, from the mammoths of the ice-age to their present day battle for survival.

The book is divided into four main sections, covering stately homes, country houses, dreams and utopias and garden produce, illuminating the history of the French countryside. Photographs reflect the colour...

When beginning her career in Palliative Medicine, the author first met Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. This meeting introduced her to the importance of being aware of one's own emotional issues when...

Completely revised and updated, the third edition of this extremely popular textbook incorporates all the latest developments in the field. The different models of psychiatric thought are outlined in a...

The Nikon D90 offers professional-quality features for shutterbugs of all types-take full advantage of each feature with this full-color, user-friendly guide Your Nikon D90 digital camera offers professional-quality features-like 11-point...

What do Skull and Bones, the Kennedys, and UFOs all have in common? They're all shrouded in mystery and conspiracies Entering the world of conspiracy theories and secret societies is...

In this volume, Josephine Klein provides a detailed picture of the way young infants experience life and how this lays the foundations for later personality structures.

The book demonstrates how even master therapists struggle with their own difficult cases and thorny professional challenges. Told through the narratives of their most stunning failures, two dozen of the...

This greatly anticipated update of The Oral History Reader is a comprehensive, international anthology of major, 'classic' articles and cutting-edge pieces on the theory, method and use of oral history....

In ost Angels , Vicky Lebeau re-reads Freudian theories of femininity to develop a remarkable contribution to spectatorship theory. Lebeau discusses Freud's distinctive preoccupations with female fantasy and femininity -...

While professional training in psychotherapy and counselling vary considerably in the attention they pay to assessment, courses, conferences and workshops devoted to the subject are attracting an audience eager for...

Literature is recognized as having significantly influenced the development of modern psychoanalytic thought. In recent years, psychoanalysis has drawn increasingly on the literary and artistic traditions of Western culture, and...

About Children and Children-no-longer is the long awaited collection of Paula Heimann's published and unpublished papers. From the published work it includes the seminal paper 'On Countertransference' (1950); 'Dynamics and...

On Learning from the Patient is concerned with the potential for psychoanalytic thinking to become self-perpetuating. Patrick Casement explores afresh the dynamics of the helping relationship - learning to recognize...

Women are usually more in touch with their emotions than men and more readily seek help from professional sources when they encounter stress. The response they meet from doctors and...

In a uniquely skewed look at the purpose and function of a book', Keri Smith offers an illustrated guide that asks readers to creatively examine all the different ways in...

Artists and scientists analyse the world around them in surprisingly similar ways - by observing, collecting, documenting, analysing and comparing. In this captivating guided journal, readers are encouraged to explore...

Remember when you used to be that girl who just moved through the motions-attended the parties, hung on to the toxic friendships, went to the mundane job (just for the...

The most trusted anthology for complete works, balanced selections, and helpful editorial apparatus. The Norton Anthology of American Literature , Shorter Eighth Edition, features a diverse and balanced variety of...

The most trusted anthology for complete works, balanced selections, and helpful editorial apparatus. The Norton Anthology of American Literature , Shorter Eighth Edition, features a diverse and balanced variety of...

The Norton Reader has introduced millions of writing students to the essay as a genre. First published in 1965, it is still the best-selling thematic reader--and the only thematic reader...

Said Sayrafiezadeh has been hailed by Philip Gourevitch as "a masterful storyteller working from deep in the American grain." His new collection of stories-some of which have appeared in The...

From the internationally acclaimed Czech writer Karel Capek comes this beautifully written and marvelously apt account of the trials and tribulations of the gardener's life. First published in Prague in...

Thirteen-year-old Bina has a long summer ahead of her. She and her best friend, Austin, usually do everything together, but he's off to soccer camp for a month, and he's...

Sammy Davis Jr. (1925-1990) rose from childhood stardom on the vaudeville stage to become one of the most famous African-American entertainers of the 1950s and 1960s (and the only black...