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Winner of the Bancroft Award: "Monumental...a tour de force...awesome in its coverage of political events."-Gordon Wood, New York Times Book Review

"Eisner was not only ahead of his times; the present times are still catching up to him."-John Updike

"Eisner was not only ahead of his times; the present times are still catching up to him."-John Updike

Now a Hallmark Hall of Fame TV-movie starring Kathy Bates, Elizabeth Perkins, and Lynn Redgrave.

In almost every respect, Daniel Webster was larger than life: an intellectual colossus, a statesman of the first rank, and a man of towering and finally unfulfilled ambition. In this new biography, Remini portrays Webster as a major player in the entire spectrum of American politics between the War of 1812 and the beginning of the Civil War. Photos.

A wonderful discovery of folklore writings-many previously unpublished-by Zora Neale Hurston, author of Their Eyes Were Watching God.

"Herblock is the most perceptive political analyst in America-he writes as well as he draws, in lucid, trenchant English. His comments, in drawings and in prose, are hard-hitting but never nasty. He's a national treasure." -Philadelphia Inquirer

Revolutionary and innovative, Lacan's work lies at the epicenter of modern thought about otherness, subjectivity, sexual difference, and enjoyment.

The first book to reveal the undiscovered jewels of Southeast Asian cuisine.

Although there is no exact equivalent to our term "science" in Greek, Western science may still be said to originate with the Greeks.

A provocative analysis of Bismarck's motives for colonial expansion. Professor Taylor's analysis is original, meticulously documented, and, whether it delights or outrages the reader, unquestionably stimulating.

By the author of Off the Record, this novel is set in Ireland where Fergus Callan has returned to lay the ghosts of his violent past. His return provokes a crisis, both in the corridors of power and the underworld of the IRA.

"The most comprehensive multidisciplinary contemplation of mortality we are likely to get."--Thomas Lynch, New York Times Book Review

"I wish I had had a book such as the Gimmick when I was living in France."-Henry Miller

The text is that of the first edition and includes comprehensive textual annotations.

Designed for the introductory calculus-based physics course, Physics for Engineers and Scientists is distinguished by its lucid exposition and accessible coverage of fundamental physical concepts.

This unabridged edition of these famous tales, marvelous for their graceful impudence and sly artistry, has been re-edited and revised by Ernest Boyd so as to bring it as close as possible to the original. "In his preface," wrote Professor George Saintsbury, "Balzac acknowledged his indebtedness to his master Rabelais; and, to be sure, the points of likeness between those two great Frenchmen are striking. They both put on a mask of comedy and rakishness in order to write with more freedom about manners, customs, politics and religion."

Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

"[A] stunningly candid portrait of culture and politics in the Middle East."-Los Angeles Times Book Review

"An enlightening and thoughtful piece of work. . . . This is the burden of Mr. Webber's book-the cultural impregnability of the black slaves in America, and the futility of the centuries-long white endeavor to enslave the black mind-and it is an impressive lesson." -The New Yorker

"A good, wise, perspicacious work, written in graceful English, free of jargon, offering intelligent conclusions." -Mark Harris, New York Times Book Review

The distinguished poet A. R. Ammons once described himself as, "not so much looking for the shape as being available to any shape that may be summoning itself through me from the self not mine but ours." This "availability" has enabled his poetic genius to be at home in forms raging from brief lyrics-the best of which he brought together in The Selected Poems: 1951-1977-all the way to poems of full book length.

Just as Ciardi has never joined a group, so he has never asked that his poems be approved-they are simply there, written as they demanded to be written from inside their own experience of themselves. They are there-and they will not go away.

Now in trade paper--Herbert Block's hilarious memoir, with 250 of his greatest political cartoons, celebrating his 50th anniversary with "The Washington Post". Eight page photo insert.

With an additional 200 new samples, bringing the total to 752, this new edition of Stone Sampler provides swatches of natural stone, including marble, travertine, onyx, granite, quartzite, and limestone, available for use in construction and decoration.

For centuries Italy has exuded a mythical aura: in no other country do antiquity and modernity, history, art, landscape, and the graceful art of living seem to merge and coexist with such simple elegance as in this land steeped in over two millennia of cultural heritage.

A popular design trend, green roofs make private and public buildings inviting and environmentally friendly.