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"An excellent and compelling overview of childhood depression by two of the field's most distinguished clinician-scholars."-Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D., author of An Unquiet Mind

"Eleanor Wilson Orr's book makes a major contribution toward our understanding of the ways in which language differences can affect the performance of black students in fields that do not seem to be closely connected to language skills". -John B. Slaughter, former director, National Science Foundation

Winner of the 1995 National Poetry Series, judged and selected by Heather McHugh.

"Vintage Lasch.... One of the refreshments of reading him is that he states his beliefs outright."-Andrew Delbanco, New York Times Book Review

"She showed me what one set-on-fire human being can do to shift the consciousness of the world." -Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking

From the pages of The Baffler, the most vital and perceptive new magazine of the nineties, sharp, satirical broadsides against the Culture Trust.

"This wonderfully instructive collection of journal writings, notebooks, jottings . . . , workbook fragments leads us into the corners of the mind where poetry hides."-Miami Herald

"[A] wealth of practical guidelines to enhance the pleasures of life." -Jane E. Brody, New York Times "With humor and personal anecdotes, [Skinner] suggest ways to shape an older person's environment so that the imperfections of old age present as few intrusions as possible." -New Orleans Times-Picayune

Selected from an extensive nationwide search, this book of fifteen stories by American writers twenty-five years old and younger introduces a new generation of literary talent.

"[A] sweeping narrative, beautifully written and scrupulously evenhanded, [that] does full justice to Stevenson and his people. . . . Ambitious, elegiac, and provocative."--Richard Norton Smith, Chicago Tribune, front page review

Considering the playwright and his work, the author theorizes that Shakespeare's elusive personality is a result of his supremacy as a dramatist-that he submerged his identity in his characters-and assesses evolving meanings of the plays and poems.

Beginning with Germany's social situation after World War I, David Schoenbaum shows how Hitler improvised a program that apparently offered something to everyone--above all, the mirage of a classless society.

"A small, sophisticated, elegantly sentimental journey through a New Hampshire village summer. Our companions are an aging poet, who is sad because he can no longer write-he has lost the joy he used to have in simply being alive-and a young, mischievous female donkey, who is sad because she can't run and play-she has a touch of arthritis. . . . There is a moral, of course, but any moral looks dull next to the simple happiness of the old poet and his long-eared muse."-The New Yorker

May Sarton describes living at her eighteenth-century house in Nelson, New Hampshire-how she acquired it, how it and the garden became part of her.

An examination of John Dewey's ideas and influence, aiming to offer new insight into Dewey's character and achievements.

"Carefully reasoned . . . dramatic. . . . [Moldeas] book should be read, not so much for the irrefutability of its conclusions as for the way the author has brought order out of a chaotic tale and turned an appalling tatter of history into an emblem of our misshapen times."-Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times

"A unique blend of personal narrative and scientific discovery, White Gloves reveals the centrality of autobiographical memory to consciousness and cognition." -Peter Salovey, Yale University, author of The Remembered Self

"A loving eulogy . . . a powerful and wrenching book." -Los Angeles Times

Impersonal forces do not make economic decisions: we do. And what we decide not only determines our society's material well-being but also reflects ethical choices.

Here is the third in Norton's colorful reissues of Adrienne's popular guides to learning languages.

Reissued in new paperback format and design

"[Told with] learning and verve. . . . A scintillating introduction to this troubled French decade."-Charles S. Maier, New York Times Book Review

Modeled on the highly successful Norton Critical Editions, this series offers illuminating introductions to major monuments of painting, sculpture, and architecture.

"Probably the most authoritative account of the genesis and early stages of the Human Genome Project. . . . This book tells it the way it was-and is." -Victor A. McKusick, University Professor of Medical Genetics, Johns Hopkins University

Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award, this book by a genuine new talent crosses the racial and gender divide.

"A searing metaphorical X-ray of a people battling to find space where they can become themselves. . . . I am deeply grateful for McFeely's magnificent effort of thought, empathy, scholarship and imagination." -Roger Wilkins, Los Angeles Times Book Review (front-page review)

"For those who wish to take the mystery out of money and interest rates, they can do no better than read George P. Brockway, The End of Economic Man." - E. Ray Canterbery, The Literate Economist

This is the book that made publishing history and started a revolution in the way Americans think about what they eat. Now, for the first time, it is available in a trade edition, with larger, more readable type.

A Muriel Rukeyser Reader gathers a generous selection of poetry and prose spanning the forty-five years of Rukeyser's writing life.

In the twentieth century, disasters caused by human beings have become more and more common.