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Readers with little background in neuroscience and physiology may find themselves at a loss trying to navigate between the knowns and the unknowns when it comes to understanding the intricacies of the brain.

Now available with a new chapter, for the fiftieth anniversary of the computer.

"Mrs. Seton's book has an unflinching with and seriousness and a sustained and subtle intelligence. And it has an idea-half-sisterhood-which may indeed be emblematic of the present state of relations among many women, whether blood sisters or not." -Lucy Rosenthal, Ms.

One of Australia's best poets conjures the Australian countryside in this brilliant epic, inspired by Philip Sidney's classic pastoral "Arcadia."

Lance Sijan was always a special kind of person: as a kid growing up in the Midwest; as a cadet who made his mark in the Air Force Academy. But it took Vietnam to show how special he wasin an epic of jungle survival and prison-camp defiance.

A consumer's handbook to the basics of EMDR therapy.

"Don't let this book pass you by!"-Library Journal

Creating tactics for getting it right the first time.

An essential reference for quick and accurate child and adolescent patient assessment.

"A stellar example of historical investigation at its probing best."-Chuck Leddy, Boston Globe

"A furiously complex age; a powerful narrative."--New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice

"Kimiko Hahn stands as a welcome voice of experimentation and passion."-Bloomsbury Review

General readers, students of American history, and professional historians alike will profit from reading this engaging presentation of an aspect of American history conspicuously absent from the usual textbooks and popular presentations of the political thought of early America.

Michael R. Katz's acclaimed translation of Turgenev's greatest novel is again the basis for this Norton Critical Edition.

"In the richness of his evidence, in the sophistication of his measurements, and in his appreciation for complexity, [Countryman] has written one of the most comprehensive and detailed studies we have yet had of any state during the revolution." -Gordon Wood, New York Review of Books

"A highly readable, thoughtful, and detailed study .... No one has yet set the story of Victorian sexuality so firmly in the context of medical history." -Journal of American History

Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award Grand Prize Winner, Banff Mountain Book Festival "Forever on the Mountain grips even non-climbers with its harrowing scenes of thorny relationships tested by extraordinary circumstances." -Washington Post

Every language has a basic vocabulary of similar words and expressions. Adrienne's acclaimed "Gimmick" approach offers both the beginner and the seasoned traveler a fast and effective route to this lexicon by teaching language as it is actually spoken.

"The Great Wheel offers a pleasure rarely found: the chance to see a powerful intellect reflect on some of the most moving and universal human experiences". - Boston Book Review

"An important book, significant because it highlights the diversity and richness of Afro-American intellectual life throughout our nation's history." -Jerry G. Watts, New York Times Book Review

"One of those rare books that quickly became the standard work in its field." -Anne Firor Scott, Duke University

"A lively survey of today's China as seen by [its] brooding intellectuals. A terrific book." -Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times Book Review

In elegies of love and death, we learn the legacy of poet Max Jacob, and "the clarity of being alone," but also that we still have to touch to believe, and that love, to believe in itself, must dress up in death. Yet sources of the future are also brought tenderly to us through the image of an unborn daughter, a child's room in autumn, and the knowledge that "gene by gene, the tiny transcriptions continue."

"For four hundred years Florida has been North America's ranking treasure hunt, a national Never-Never land."Gloria Jahoda unfolds the colorful story in this book, from the gold-seeking conquistadores of Spain, and the alleged search for a fountain of youth, to today's vast influx of tourists and the retired in search of sun, health, and the delights of Disney World.

"Through this great scholarly effort of Yale's Professor Morgan, we now have a unique access to the culture and intellectual life of 18th-century America. We also have for the first time a full biography of a remarkable colonial worthy, one which general readers can enjoy and scholars use with confidence." -Library Journal

Here follows the highs and lows of a relationship between two extraordinary personalities.

Jane Brody's Good Food Book is a great American cookbook, one destined to take its place alongside such classics as the Joy of Cooking and America Cooks. -Pierre Franey

The Caribbean area--a scattering of ethnic and racial groups with a history of colonialism and bloody attempts to assert nationhood--provides an exciting background for these tales of wit, melancholy, resentment, fantasy, and superstition. If the Caribbeans are searching for a "newness," a "cool upheaval of the spirit," as Salkey suggests in the introduction, then the writers gathered together here--from the outstanding such as V. S. Naipaul, Samuel Selvon, and John Hearne to the younger, little-known, and never before published--are true to this spirit.