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Named One of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books Written by the New York Times Magazine, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, and a New York Times Editors' Choice.

"Meaty, maximalist, driven by narrative, [Fairchild] stakes out an American mythos."-David Ulin, Los Angeles Times

"Wolff keeps company with Sylvia Plath, Sharon Olds, and Beth Ann Fennelly."-Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Sure to be a classic, and the beginning of a long and glorious career."-Sherman Alexie

"Adrienne Rich is the Blake of American letters."-Nadine Gordimer

In a conversational Q&A format, a leading dog expert answers the most commonly asked questions about how dogs think and act.

A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book and a Washington Post Best of 2008: "A book worthy of Keats-full of feeling and drama and those fleeting moments we call genius."-Ted Genoways, Washington Post Book World

A brilliant narrative history tracing today's troubles back to grandiose imperial overreach of Great Britain and the United States.

"Peacock is in peak form in these seductive poems that swing and twirl . . . valiant, trenchant, funny, and on point."-Booklist

A preeminent sociologist of race explains a groundbreaking new framework for understanding racial inequality, challenging both conservative and liberal dogma.

A master historian's excavations into the past unearth a world that is unexpected and compelling.

A stunning new collection from a poet who "made her name a watchword for serenity and poise" (Contemporary Poetry Review).

The fifteenth collection by a celebrated poet whose "terrific, boisterous energy has never flagged" (Megan Harlan, San Francisco Chronicle).

Leading scientists and science writers reflect on the life-changing, perspective-changing, new science of human goodness.

"Exhilarating . . . strikes a balance between the personal and the abstract."-Edward Rothstein, New York Times

Filled with in-depth stories of those who have experienced losses and solid, practical advice along with mourning rituals and services, Unspeakable Losses is a necessary companion to all those who have experienced pregnancy loss and those who care about them.

"With its high spirits, its love of textures of different kinds of writing . . . [this] is an immensely lively performance." -Robert Hass

"No recent work of history...has presented such a distinctive-and beautifully resonant-authorial voice."-John Demos, Yale University

"Rich's lyrics are powerful and mournful, drenched in memory." -San Francisco Chronicle

"As wise as it is well written. . . . A sustaining work of art." -Linda Elisabeth Beattie, Courier-Journal

The essays center on a few broad themes: population and its relation to economic growth, capital formation in long historical perspective, the broader features of modern economic growth, and recent changes in the gap between the rich and poor countries. The themes are clearly interrelated. Even a selection on the supply of and demand for economic data bears on the others, since it deals with the conditions that limit the quantitative study of economic growth. Included in the volume and published for the first time in book form is Professor Kuznet's Nobel Laureate address, "Modern Economic Growth: Findings and Reflections."

"Insightful and filled with verve...electrifying." -Wall Street Journal

Citing the mythical Baron von Munchhausen's method of rescuing himself and his horse from drowning by hoisting himself up by his pigtail, Paul Watzlawick, in this collection of essays and lectures, asks: do we - by choosing to see the world in a particular way - blind ourselves to seeing it another way? Is it possible to pull oneself (or others) out of some untenable situation and see life from the outside with new eyes?With his usual insight and wit, Dr. Watzlawick shows us how we can change our perspective of reality to suit our needs rather than adhering to a fixed view, and thus avoid the consequences of self-imposed limitations. Along the way he pays homage to such seminal thinkers as anthropologist Gregory Bateson, psychiatrist Don D. Jackson, hypnotherapist Milton H. Erickson, and bio-cybernetician Heinz von Foerster, whose writings have influenced his own work and the collective work of the Mental Research Institute at Palo Alto.

The beloved author of Little Women was torn between pleasing her idealistic father and planting her feet in the material world.

Having thoroughly mined the sources, Darnton provides a trove of information on the illegal literature of Old Regime France. The result is an invaluable resource to specialists in French cultural history, the history of the book, the social history of ideas, and problems of censorship and state control of ideas.