Books published by Hachette Books

Created specially for today's busy, hassled, two-career, microwave-dependent couple, Purrfect Parenting offers a humorous approach to making the transition from being a twosome to becoming a family.

Explores the creative and courageous ways in which stay-at-work moms can have rewarding careers and still being engaged mothers

This "History at a Glance" volume presents a huge amount of information in a small space, including many facts and figures that will be new even to dedicated readers.

For Naked City, his first collection, Weegee cruised the streets of 1940s New York in the wee hours in search of the sensational. Lewd, louche, licentious but always brimming with life (except when brimming with death), Weegee's photographs have endured decades of modern art criticism and are again enjoying a much-deserved cult revival.

The nationally acclaimed, award-winning biography of "the Kingfish of Massachusetts" and an epic of urban politics and Irish America.

"Following the course of Civil War campaigns can be taxing for even the most well-read military scholar. The operations at major sites such as Vicksburg, Gettysburg, and Petersburg were complicated mat"

Books about the Civil War are as numerous as the war's casualties. This one is different. A Civil War Treasury goes beyond the battle histories and memoirs to offer a unique, intimate, and informative portrayal of this nation's greatest catastrophe, the War Between the States.

Why do firstborns often find romance with lastborns? Who's the worst match for an only child? From the bestselling author of The Art of Kissing, an informative, entertaining guide to relationship compatibility based on the 12 birth order types, drawing on leading research and author's own database.

A wise and moving look at the most profoundly life-changing passage of all: losing our parents.

"Last Rights is a compassionate, comprehensive, up-to-the-minute examination of the right-to-die movement in America and the medical, legal, ethical, and social issues surrounding euthanasia. The stori"

Now in paperback: From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the best-selling book-length poem selected for the Best American Poetry annual in both 1999 and 2000.

First time in paperback: A "strong, compelling, and compassionate book" (Boston Globe) about the acclaimed and ill-fated cellist who died at the age of forty-two.

This collection of Paul Cezanne's letters provides an insight into his thoughts and work.

"My Life was written in Moscow in 1921--1922, when Chagall was thirty-five years old. Although long out-of-print, it remains one of the most extraordinarily inventive and beautifully told of all autobi"

"In the childhood of every human being and at the dawn of human history there is an amazing and, until now, unexplained leap from simple genetically programmed behavior to language, symbolic thinking,"

A wide-ranging series of essays on military leaders, ancient and modern, whose actions and personalities provide insights into the interplay of time, circumstance, and individual character and ability that makes for success or failure.

"Among the many introductions to opera, this is perhaps the best. J. Merrill Knapp, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, divides his subject into two parts: In the first, he discusses the struct"

The stone bridge on the southern flank of the Antietam battlefield became one of the Civil War's most powerful symbols of courage and sacrifice. The actions, units and personalities of this crucial sector of the battlefield are described in detail, accompanied by a full description of the bridge area as it was in 1862 and as it is today.

This is a guide to diabetes for the newly diagnosed patient. It covers such areas as: adjusting to the emotional impact of diabetes; making decisions about diet; exercise; types of medication; finding the best care; and facing uncertainty surrounding complications and their effect.

"Long before Elvis Presley entered Sam Phillips's Sun Records studio in 1954, rock 'n' roll was being performed and recorded by the likes of Big Joe Turner, Louis Jordan, Wynonie Harris, the Clovers, t"

"In 1864 Abraham Lincoln had privately predicted his defeat in the impending election, but ten days later Atlanta fell, assuring his victory. General Jacob D. Cox (1828--1900) played a key role in the U"

The Psychopathic God is the definitive psychological portrait of Adolph Hitler. By documenting accounts of his behaviour, beliefs, tastes, fears, and compulsions, Robert Waite sheds new light on this complex figure. But Waite's ultimate aim is to explain how Hitler's psychopathology changed German,and world,history. With The Psychopathic God we can begin to understand Hitler as never before.

"This volume assembles interviews with over thirty major artists to form a unique document of American art of the '60s and '70s. Between 1966 and 1973, Jeanne Siegel conducted interviews and panel disc"

A compendium of Richard Wagner's prose works. Selected and arranged, and with an introduction by Albert Goldman and Evert Sprinchorn

The comprehensive approach to developmental challenges including autism, PDD, language and speech problems, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, ADD, and other related disorders.

Bringing the magic of empathy to daily life with a child

Dr. Gordon Livingston,a physician of the human heart, a philosopher of human psychology,offers an urgently needed meditation on who best (and who best not ) to love. As in his previous books, Dr. Livingston demonstrates an unerring sense of what is important, providing readers with a much-needed alternative to the trial-and-error learning that makes wisdom such an expensive commodity.

The highly popular pregnancy cookbook, now bigger and better than ever

A Shape magazine columnist's guide to breaking the mother--daughter cycle of bad body image and low self-esteem

The one-stop resource for teenagers looking for summer work