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Powerful and compelling. . . . Eisenhower is not only an accomplished military historian, he's also a storyteller in the tradition of Bruce Caton and Shelby Foote."-Steve Neal, Chicago Sun-Times

"There wasn't one page of his poem that didn't delight me."-Donald Davie, New York Review of Books

The Phantom Empire is a brilliant, daring, and utterly original book that analyzes (even as it exemplifies) the effect that the image saturation of a hundred years of moving pictures have had on human culture and consciousness.

A landmark work when it appeared in 1976, America's Working Women helped form the field of women's studies and transform labor history. Now the authors have enlarged the dimensions of this important anthology; more than half the selections and all the introductory material are new. Spanning the years from 1600 to the present, selections from diaries, popular magazines, historical works, oral histories, letters, songs, poetry, and fiction show women's creativity in supporting themselves, their families, and organizations or associations. Slave women recall their field work, family work, and sabotage. We see Indian women farming, and we also see the white culture coercing Indian women to give up farming. We see women in industry playing a central part in the union movement while facing the particular hazards of women's jobs and working conditions. New selections show the historical origins of today's important issues: sexual harassment, equal pay, "sex work," work in the underground economy, work in the home, and shift work. With an expanded focus on women from all racial and ethnic backgrounds and regions, America's Working Women grounds us in the battles women have fought and the ones they are in the process of winning.

"Ware writes that she wanted to `rescue Amelia from the cult of her disappearance,' to replace an impossibly romanticized, martyred enigma with a useful piece of history. Grown-up women of today, aviators, and others, should find this Earhart a more plausible and heartening forerunner." -Amy E. Schwartz, Air & Space

"A comprehensive political analysis of Dag Hammarskjold's seven years [1952-1961] as the U.N.'s Secretary-General... Follows Hammarskjold through every major crisis of his day: McCarthyism, the aftermath of Korea, Suez, Hungary, Lebanon, Algeria, the Congo." -Friedel Ungeheuer, Time

A sensation when published in Moscow and a bestseller in Europe, the memoirs of this remarkable woman-the widow of the charismatic Bolshevik leader Nikolai I. Bukharin-offer a new dimension to our understanding of Soviet history.

"No one carries his learning more gracefully than Knox. That is because he does not, like so many scholars, seal it off from the rest of life. Ancient and current wisdom communicate through him." -Garry Wills

First published in 1974, Fogel and Engerman's groundbreaking book reexamined the economic foundations of American slavery, marking "the start of a new period of slavery scholarship and some searching revisions of a national tradition" (C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books).

In this collection of essays, 21 contemporary women poets reflect on their relationship to literary tradition. The approaches taken are diverse and despite the common threads in these women's experiences, there is no concensus: "Where We Stand" represents a plurality of voices, not a chorus.

Greed for money, power, sex, and love is the theme of this volume of dramatic monologues by the poet the New York Times Book Review has called "one of the most singular voices of her generation."

"John E. Schwarz and Thomas J. Volgy have joined forces to produce an incisive analysis of the nation's economic problems, illustrated their book with real people, and linked their material to the political process. This is a major contribution to the most important debate taking place in America. -Thomas B. Edsall

The death of Emperor Hirohito in 1989 ended Japan's Showa era (1926-1989) and provided the occasion for the Japanese to confront their past and the roots of their present success.

"Makes us appreciate something of what it felt like for Germans East and West as the world ended." -Anthony Bailey, New York Times Book Review

"Ms. Prospere's alchemy manages to turn diverse elements into gold. These poems are startling and transformational: an extraordinary debut."-New York Times Book Review

"Joy Hay is one of our very best essayists on the natural world, and The Bird of Light is a fine example of his work."-Peter Matthiessen

As more women over 30 are having children, amniocentesis is becoming a routine part of prenatal care. Here, Rothman draws on the experiences of over 120 women to show how this simple procedure can alter the way we think about childbirth and parenthood and force us to confront difficult dilemmas.

"If one has the art, then a piece of celery or salted cabbage can be made into a marvelous delicacy; whereas if one has not the art, not all the greatest delicacies and rarities of land, sea, or sky are of any avail." -a Beijing cook, nineteenth century from Chinese Roundabout

"A great book. . . . [An] easy to understand vision of how people and businesses can make money and a wonderful world at the same time." -Ben Cohen, CEO, Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc.

"For the many Americans who have never set foot on a real farm, this book is required reading. . . . An engaging blend of agricultural history, geography, travel, and interviews with farmers [that] provides an unsentimental, realistic look at American farm life." -Library Journal

"In Out of Canaan, her stunning first book of poems, Hammond evokes the poignant history of four generations of her Southern family. The reader is immediately attracted by the sheer sparkle and vitality of the language."-Library Journal

Unlike the brief, specific-solution oriented therapies that many people demand today, the goal of depth therapy is life change. James Bugental has been practicing, teaching and writing about depth therapy for 40 years, and in this book, he shares his experiences as a psychotherapist.

Under the Safety Net is a searing call to action for every citizen. America is not America unless we work together to do what it takes to end the worsening crisis of homelessness in our affluent society. -Senator Edward Kennedy

"Remarkable...Fang discourses with passion, insight, conviction, and humor on politics, religion, and the scientist's role in today's world...A wonderful book." -San Francisco Chronicle

"Boldly playful, gymnastic and surreal."-Leslie Ullman, Kenyon Review

A study of a small American colonial outpost which, between 1665-1715, came under attack 30 times, culminating in a massacre which claimed the lives of over half of the town's population. The book is also a social history, portraying the lives of the first Puritan settlers.

Biting and bawdy, smart and smutty, lofty and low, Gargantua and Pantagruel is fantasy on the grandest of scales, told with an unquenchable thirst for all of human experience.

Every day some species of plant or animal on our planet becomes extinct. In Mama Poc, the bestselling author of Woodswoman and Beyond Black Bear Lake relates her own attempts to halt the decline of a single species of bird found only in Guatemala. The giant grebe, a flightless bird living on mile-deep Lake Atitlan, came to LaBastille's attention in 1964. Her population count revealed that a mere eighty-two birds remained. Over the course of twenty-five years, Anne LaBastille made the cause of the giant grebe her own. This is the story of her life in Guatemala, observing the birds and working to reclaim their habitat and-against odds that turned out to be overwhelming-give them a future.

The definitive collection of a major American poet's work.

This book presents the lectures Karen Horney gave her class on psychoanalytic technique during the last year of her life.