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"A fascinating and genuinely accessible guide....Educating, enjoyable, and delightfully unscary."-Classical Music

The book that launched a movement: "Wilson speaks with a humane eloquence which calls to us all" (Oliver Sacks).

Through a systematic, ten-year DNA survey of more than 10,000 volunteers, Sykes has traced the genetic makeup of British Islanders and their descendants. He also features a chapter specifically addressing the genetic makeup of those people in the United States who have descended from the British Isles.

Before Freakonomics and The Tipping Point there was this classic by the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Economics.

Seamus Heaney's best-selling ?Beowulf? is now wedded to more than one hundred glorious images.

Internationally recognized as one of the premier researchers on child development, Ed Tronick has held notable teaching positions and conducted vital research for nearly 30 years.

A renowned social psychologist's clear-cut, thoughtful, and practical strategy for parents who want to promote self-confidence in their child.

One of the literary masterpieces of the century, this translation is now presented with facing-page German.

This classic-both playful and poetic-is reissued with striking new duotone reproductions.

Finalist for the James Beard Foundation Book Award and the IACP Cookbook Award "[A]s good a read on the science of cooking as there is." -Mark Bittman, author of How to Cook Everything

"A devastating bombardment of managerial thinking and the profession of management consulting...A serious and valuable polemic." -Wall Street Journal

The Life of John Maynard Keynes traces the life and career of the famous English economist and evaluates his contribution to modern economic policy making.

Like so many helping professionals today, coaches are discovering that the most effective treatment plan is not always the one that takes the most time.

In tune with the needs of students, Thinking Clearly focuses squarely on core issues of critical reasoning.

A controversial, timely reassessment of the environmentalist agenda by outstanding historians, scientists, and critics.

One of the most original psychoanalysts after Freud, Karen Horney pioneered such now familiar concepts as alienation, self-realization, and the idealized image, and she brought to psychoanalysis a new understanding of the importance of culture and environment.

A full-size photographic facsimile of one of the essential books of English literature and culture that has won the admiration of actors and scholars throughout the world.

A brief, authoritative introduction to field experimentation in the social sciences.

This new fourth edition of the acclaimed and bestselling Div, Grad, Curl, and All That has been carefully revised and now includes updated notations and seven new example exercises.

For twenty-four years, in an odd and intimate warren of rooms, San Franciscans of every variety have come to the Zuni Cafe with high expectations and have rarely left disappointed.

Parable, paradox, anecdote, dream, and autobiography blend into an exuberant world view and affirmation of human possibility.

"There is nothing quite like this well-researched book."-Library Journal

Here Karen Horney develops a dynamic theory of neurosis centered on the basic conflict among attitudes of "moving forward" "moving against," and "moving away from" people.

The international bestseller-don't compete without it!

"No one else has ever made avant-garde, experimental poems so attractive to both the general and the special reader."-Randall Jarrell