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Only a few books stand as landmarks in social and scientific upheaval. Norbert Wiener's classic is one in that small company. Founder of the science of cybernetics--the study of the relationship betwee

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Looks at the Internet, classroom culture, school violence, movies, television and a growing societal incivility to show parents and teachers where hurrying occurs and why. This book offers parents and teachers alike insight, advice and hope for encouraging healthy development while protecting the joy and freedom of childhood.

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The author of Vegan Soul Kitchen shares his favorite staple ingredients and the delicious ways to cook them--from simple to complex

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"What do you get when you cross an esteemed child psychiatrist with a noted pediatrician, both at the apex of their abilities A darned important book, that's what." --Library Journal (starred review)

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"The last few years have witnessed an enormous resurgence in the popularity of jazz, after some lean times in the sixties when many potential jazz fans turned to rock. Now the pendulum is on the backsw"

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From the founders of JD Jungle magazine, a hip must-read for present and future law-school students, or anyone who wants to learn the "laws of the jungle"

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Much in the tradition of Buzz Bissinger revisiting Odessa, TX to write a brand new chapter for his updated edition of Friday Night Lights, this is the 10th Anniversary Edition of the classic baseball story of the Cape Cod Baseball League, the country's premier summer proving ground for elite prospects.

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The intimate chronicle of one of our leading composers and writers.

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For everyone who has fallen in love with Latin music, a guide to its many styles that also traces its place in American music and culture

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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.

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The internationally admired author of Engaging Autism shows parents how to get to the roots of learning disabilities and unleash each child's intellectual potential

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"At the time of Mark Rothko's apparent suicide in 1970, the deeply troubled, pioneering artist of Abstract Expressionism was at the height of fame and financial success; yet within months of the funera"

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Art and Lives of Twelve Great Bluesmen

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"Preferring Paul to John was like preferring Cliff Richard to Elvis Presley, or Donovan to Dylan. John was the leader; he was his own man."-Martin Amis

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"Huddie Ledbetter (1889--1949), known to millions of fans simply as Leadbelly, was arguably the most famous black singer in American history. His close musical associations included such towering figure"

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"The Lincoln Reader is a biography of Abraham Lincoln written by sixty-five authors. Paul Angle, the noted Lincoln scholar, selected passages from the works on contemporaries, later biographers, and e"

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A guide to healing the emotional scars that result from a break in a close relationship

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"No gangster has ever been more powerful than Charles "Lucky" Luciano (1897--1962). By the mid-1920s, he had taken over the New York bordellos and was making more than a million dollars a year. In 1931"

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"The Luftwaffe War Diaries is the definitive history of the German air force in World War II, from the blitzkrieg on Poland to the last desperate stand over Germany--the only account ever to come from"

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"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"

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A Da Capo original: The extraordinary writings of one of the most vigorous, effective-and overlooked-shapers of American history, and the rediscovery of an American visionary.

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"Decades before Marcus Garvey, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Malcolm X, Martin Robison Delany (1812--1885) proclaimed his pride in being black, and demanded not only emancipation but independence for African Am"

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Now fully updated with a new chapter: The classic introduction to the bebop era and the legendary performers who created it