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"Long before Elvis Presley entered Sam Phillips's Sun Records studio in 1954, rock 'n' roll was being performed and recorded by the likes of Big Joe Turner, Louis Jordan, Wynonie Harris, the Clovers, t"

"In 1864 Abraham Lincoln had privately predicted his defeat in the impending election, but ten days later Atlanta fell, assuring his victory. General Jacob D. Cox (1828--1900) played a key role in the U"

The Psychopathic God is the definitive psychological portrait of Adolph Hitler. By documenting accounts of his behaviour, beliefs, tastes, fears, and compulsions, Robert Waite sheds new light on this complex figure. But Waite's ultimate aim is to explain how Hitler's psychopathology changed German,and world,history. With The Psychopathic God we can begin to understand Hitler as never before.

"This volume assembles interviews with over thirty major artists to form a unique document of American art of the '60s and '70s. Between 1966 and 1973, Jeanne Siegel conducted interviews and panel disc"

A compendium of Richard Wagner's prose works. Selected and arranged, and with an introduction by Albert Goldman and Evert Sprinchorn

The comprehensive approach to developmental challenges including autism, PDD, language and speech problems, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, ADD, and other related disorders.

Bringing the magic of empathy to daily life with a child

Dr. Gordon Livingston,a physician of the human heart, a philosopher of human psychology,offers an urgently needed meditation on who best (and who best not ) to love. As in his previous books, Dr. Livingston demonstrates an unerring sense of what is important, providing readers with a much-needed alternative to the trial-and-error learning that makes wisdom such an expensive commodity.

The highly popular pregnancy cookbook, now bigger and better than ever

A Shape magazine columnist's guide to breaking the mother--daughter cycle of bad body image and low self-esteem

The one-stop resource for teenagers looking for summer work

Esmeralda's relationship with "the Turk" is told with expansive humanity, earthy humor, and psychological courage.

"This is the story of the amazing and uncommon life of George Bent-a "halfbreed" born to a prominent white trader and his Indian wife-whose lifetime spanned one of the most exciting epochs in our natio"

First time in paperback: From a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, an imaginative re-creation of Samuel Clemens's boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri-just in time for Ken Burns's forthcoming Mark Twain documentary.

"Robert Mitchum once commented to Arthur Lyons about his movies of the 1940s and 1950s: "Hell, we didn't know what film noir was in those days. We were just making movies. Cary Grant and all the big st"

A Da Capo original: The extraordinary writings of one of the most vigorous, effective-and overlooked-shapers of American history, and the rediscovery of an American visionary.

In this text, Andre Malraux recollects a number of his conversations with Picasso. Malraux was intimately involved in French intellectual life, as philosopher, novelist, soldier, statesman and Secretary for Cultural Affairs, and he knew the painter well.

"With over 1000 entries and 400 illustrations, this volume is the most fact-packed history of the West ever assembled. Crime historian extraordinaire Jay Robert Nash has left no stone unturned in his s"

"In An Open Book, this veteran of five marriages, innumerable friendships, practical jokes, horses, love affairs, and intellectual obsessions tells his own story in his own way. It is direct, unadorned"

"Ardent Spirit covers the full range of the temperance idea in America, beginning in the early seventeenth century and continuing through the prohibition years, 1919--1933. Using a wide variety of sour"

First published in 1907, this text aims to present a balanced picture of the American Civil War. Author, General Edward Porter Alexander, was the master gunner of the Confederacy, and one of the great American artillerists.

From one of the eminent experts in the field, an easy-to-follow guide to urological problems for both men and women.

"In this unique examination of Civil War leadership, W. J. Wood looks at the tactical and strategic problems that threatened to overwhelm untried Civil War generals and the pragmatic strategies, born o"

A biography of the Union Civil War general.

A comprehensive guide to rock, revealing the roots of rap, disco, power ballads, bubblegum, suburban country and noise-rock. The book examines the similarities between disco and garage rock, and between reggae and heavy metal, as well as whether songs can really "mean" anything.

"In June 1950 Communist forces poured across the 38th Parallel (the arbitrary, militarily indefensible line of latitude separating the Communist North from the independent Republic of Korea) to unite t"

"Packed with case histories and profiles of history's most infamous secret agents, plus a comprehensive glossary, The Guinness Book of Espionage will appeal to armchair spies everywhere. The Guinness B"

"T. E. Shaw, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, was one of the most romantic, heroic, and enigmatic figures of his day. The subject of myth and hagiography, he was equally accomplished in several fiel"

"The jazz decade saw the emergence of many of the great figures who defined the music for the world: Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Earl Hines, Bix Beiderbecke, Fats Waller, Jack Teagarden, Fletcher He"

"This is the only jazz history written by a musician that is not strictly autobiographical. Rex Stewart, who played trumpet and cornet with Fletcher Henderson and Duke Ellington, knew personally all th"