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A critical look at the United States' criminal justice system, raising an obvious question: If crime rates aren't going up, why is the prison population

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In the first book to argue that neurotic, psychotic, and borderline personality disorders can be identified, diagnosed, and treated even in the young, a renowned child psychiatrist marshalls her developmental perspective and adduces clinical evidence to support it. Kernberg and her colleagues elucidate assessment criteria and advance therapeutic approaches for each disorder.

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Picture Windows chronicles how suburbia sprawled, proving to be a hothouse for scores of disaffected artistic types and mopey teens.-Vanity Fair

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"Between 1841 and 1865, some forty thousand children participated in the great overland journeys from the banks of the Missouri River to the shores of the Pacific Ocean. In this engaging book, Emmy Wer"

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A wild ride to the outer limits of the virtual world, where real money meets fantasy gaming

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"The subject of a New York Times Magazine cover story of December 8, 1996, David Ellwood is one of the country's leading experts on poverty. In this book he describes who the poor are, explains why the"

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In this brilliantly conceived and clearly argued discussion of the relationship between high and popular culture, Herbert Gans, outspoken advocate of cultural pluralism, questions the universality of high culture standards.

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Postethnic America is a bracing reminder of America's universalist promise, and a stirring call for a new form of nationalism.

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This final work by a world-renowned economist will take its place among the classics of political economy

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From Beethoven to Oscar Wilde, from Van Gogh to Hitler, Deborah Hayden throws new light on the effects of syphilis on the lives and works of seminal figures from the 15th to the 20th centuries, arguing that biographers and historians have vastly underestimated the influence of this disease.

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A history of public relations, this work begins with World War I, when Ivy Lee, one of America's first corporate PR men, helped create a new climate in which public relations and corporate image management would become paramount in American society.

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Two leading doctors agitate to make medicine less about costly disease treatment and more about sustaining patient health

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Options have been traded for hundreds of years - at least since the sixteenth century when they were used to buy and sell commodities in Antwerp and Amsterdam - but for centuries nobody knew what their true value really was. This title retraces the historical developments that ultimately led to the breakthrough of an options pricing formula.

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"In this splendid book a master psychotherapist, one of the field's most respected researchers, provides the first definitive account of psychoanalytic psychotherapy in manual format. What distinguishe"

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Based on a major new study, a revision of the leading guide to new-product development for senior management, by the inventor of its most widely practiced approach

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This book takes a look at living with prostate cancer, telling the stories of ten men from a wide array of backgrounds, geographic locations, and occupations. Each of the men was diagnosed at a different state of the disease, and each has a different approach to his individual treatment.

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With the publication of this masterly new book, David Shapiro fulfills the promise made more than twenty years ago. Psychotherapy of Neurotic Character presents for the first time an approach to psychotherapy consistent with his classic work, Neurotic Styles.

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An important examination of the new reality of race in American culture

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An original and timely analysis of one of the country's most contentious issues: the hard right turn taken by the federal courts, and why balance must be restored to the judiciary branch

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"Elizabeth Gregory has discovered the real truth behind all the false alarms over delayed motherhood: that older mothers tend to be very happy with their decision to have children later in life. A positive, optimistic message for women: you can wait until you are ready to be a good parent."-Ann Crittenden, author of The Price of Motherhood

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Seeks to explain the minds and morality of all those who espouse rebellion, from political activists to terrorists, and works to define what types of rebellion are just.

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A self-described beneficiary (and, at times, victim) of affirmative action confronts the problems spawned by our national obsession with racial measurement. Carter provides a thoughtful analysis of this controversial issue, arguing that affirmative action often allows the nation to escape inexpensively from its moral obligation to undo the legacy of slavery.

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Looks at the development of Social Pyschology through the personal histories of its most prominent living scholars.

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A compelling and sweeping argument that complexity theory can build a bridge between science and religion