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Psychotherapy researchers have traditionally focused on therapy outcomes outside of the therapeutic setting. This presents the difficulty of correlating outcomes with what goes on in the clinical setting, a nearly impossible task. It is no surprise, consequently, that therapists have seen such research as largely irrelevant to clinical practice.

Both William O'Dwyer, the 104th mayor of New York City, and Frank Costello, prime minister of the underworld, were immigrants, and there the similarity might have ended, except for the televised Kefauver hearings on organized crime in 1951 that linked them forever.

This is the story of one woman's struggle to keep a family together in the teeth of a system that makes life a series of uprootings. For Poppie Nongena is black and lives in present-day South Africa.

One after another in dimly lit Riverside Park, three young women are brutally murdered. Palm fronds bind their wrists, and halos of corn kernels frame their heads. Blood has been taken from their bodies; no blood is on the ground.

A gourmet collection of Antonia Fraser's short stories of suspense and mystery.

Erma J. Fisk, world-travelling ornithologist and bird-bander, shares the wealth of her years of travel in this delightful collection of food, people and experiences that will charm even those who don't know a robin from a radish.

Three topics dominate discussions of the global environment: pollution; the consequences of the affluent running ever faster through finite resources; and the growing tensions between rich and poor. Barbara Ward refused to see these processes as inevitable. Here, she describes new technologies for recycling waste, for energy, for 'getting more or less', linking them to ordinary people's working lives. She suggests a strategy for meeting the basic needs of the disadvantaged, and shows how the vast inequalities between countries can be reduced.

Kissinger: Portrait of a Mind provides the fullest view possible of the development of Kissinger's approach to foreign policy. It is essential reading for courses that deal with American foreign relations in the twentieth century.

Coleridge combined the genius of a poet with the mind of a philosophical critic.

Bancroft-Prize winning scholar David S. Reynolds introduces a broad selection of Abraham Lincoln's writings-from earliest days through to his last.

"A true translation whose literary qualities make it stand out from the rest." -Daniel Gold, Cornell University

In this new edition Professor Hansen augments his authoritative study of the business cycle with an analysis of the performance-and the problems-of the postwar American economy.

"A winning combination of scholarship and intuition-and an unparalleled guide to understanding and performing these works." -Emanuel Ax

In 1965, the authors of The Ugly American published the novel Sarkhan, a book which they felt had an even more dramatic message than their great best-seller. Sarkhan was greeted with high praise, was a selection of both the Literary Guild and the Reader's Digest Condensed Book Club.

Characters to watch are assorted Mafia hoods; a passel of eccentrics who live at the Seventy-ninth Street Boat Basin; the regulars at Riley's saloon-Donovan's favorite hangout and (perhaps) Clint, Donovan's ill-tempered snapping turtle. Also on hand are Sgt. T. L. Jefferson, Donovan's redoubtable assistant, and Sgt. Marcia Barnes, the black undercover policewoman who is his on-again, off-again lover. Here's another jaunty big city thriller by the author of the much acclaimed Night Rituals.

"This book is the first to seize clearly upon the nature of this new dynamic, and to present it simply and forcefully in the context or rapidly moving events." -From the Introduction by Jean Monnet

Completely revised and updated with brand-new restaurants, Eat Dat New Orleans is the ultimate guide to America's best food city

Satisfy your sweet tooth with complex carbohydrates.

The best and most eloqent introduction to Dante in our time.

A major, surprising new history of New York's most famous political machine-Tammany Hall-revealing, beyond the vice and corruption, a birthplace of progressive urban politics.

Highlights of architecture, preservation, urban planning, and public art described by two experienced guides, with pictures, route maps, and transit information.

An overview for effective community based therapy.

"A wonderfully entertaining book of American folklore and humor."-Elaine Kendall, Los Angeles Times Book Review

Alabama's is a story, believes author Virginia V. Hamilton, that bears scrutiny by Alabamians and outsiders alike if they would understand the present.