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To many Americans, Oregon is an idyllic, fruitful garden on the northwestern shore of a troubled urban nation. But, as author Gordon B. Dodds explains in this thoughtful history, behind that image lies the story of a state that has retained many of the conservative values of its first settlers while accommodating the forces of national development.

Named one of the top five books on dogs by the Wall Street Journal.

What life has really been like for most Mississippians is the story told in this intriguing history.

"Edith Grossman again demonstrates that she indeed is the Glenn Gould of translators."-Harold Bloom

"A timely, well-written and scholarly polemic for the separation of church and state."--Bernard Crick, The New Statesman

"Reconstructs the vibrantly intoxicating atmosphere of the theatrical world in the early nineteenth century. Lavishly romantic." --Booklist

"Holdstock's vivid, unflinching tale doesn't sugarcoat the casual brutality of the period, and is punctuated by startling moments of beauty." --Publishers Weekly

"A compassionate exploration of a woman's life-between motherhood and dreaming, living the everyday and taking flight."-Jane Mendelsohn, author of I Was Amelia Earhart

The inspiring story of one woman's journey of healing and transformation.

How and where did different architectural styles develop? America has an abundance of fascinating and varied house styles, as fascinating and diverse as its people.

A fascinating and long-overdue examination of the political, economic, and human rights issues impacting U.S. policy toward China.

Selections from great writings on economics, annotated and introduced by a distinguished economist and teacher.

The clearest explanation yet of how improvements in patient care are related to--and depend on--biomedical research.

"Not many people can write splendid fiction about the inner workings of the American political state. In fact, Ward Just is the only one I can think of." -Boston Globe

"The best explanation that I have seen for our distinctive combination of faith, hope and naivete concerning the governmental process." -Michael Kamman, Washington Post

"Poignant visions of childhood, the family, and moments of perception that become 'a study of small pleasures' to be recalled and savored."-Library Journal

For Joanna the month's holiday was to be an escape, a chance to paint and think and release the bitter memories of the war in Greece and of her mother's death.

Completely revised and updated throughout, the new edition of this successful guide is for everyone who ventures into the wilderness.

The books altered the course of history; the lives behind them have the dark fascination of fiction.

"No one has photographed America as has David Plowden. ... He is one of the great artists of our time."-David McCullough

The story of the black soldiers who helped save the Union, conquer the West, and build the nation.

An expert in nonverbal communication tackles the science of smiles and their extraordinary social impact.

The 1997 centennial of Brahms's death has intensified interest among concertgoers and music lovers in the composer's prodigious body of work.

"The Will to Change is an extraordinary book of poems...It has the urgency of a prisoner's journal: patient, laconic, eloquent, as if determined thoughts were set down in stolen moments." -David Kalstone in The New York Times Book Review

Spuriously attributed to Homer, the hymns and invocations collected in this book constitute, alongside The Iliad and The Odyssey the great sources of ancient Greek poetry.

More than any other single man, George Washington was responsible for bringing success to the American Revolution. But because of the heroic image in which we have cast him and which already enveloped him in this own lifetime, Washington is and was a hard man to know.

"Linda Hamalian is to be saluted for the sheer amount of detection and unraveling she has brought to her life of Kenneth Rexroth. It's the kind of information everyone seems to take for granted, but which would still be covered by the desert sands of time except for the biographer's herculean labors." -Washington Post Book World

This book displays encyclopedic knowledge at the command of a mind equally at home with strategic and moral issues. A gracefully written book for experts and amateurs alike.

"Teachers of courses in twentieth-century German history will welcome the reprinting of this book, which has held its position as the best of the single-volume histories of the Weimar Republic in English." -Gordon A. Craig

With vivid stories and an infectious delight in the garden, Jo Ann Gardner shares her wisdom and useful tips on planting, growing, and harvesting more than 90 different kinds of herbs.