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Leakey's personal account of his fossil hunting and landmark discoveries at Lake Turkana, his reassessment of human prehistory based on new evidence and analytic techniques, and his profound pondering of how we became "human" and what being "human" really means. 40 photos.

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Known for his extensive pioneering in the field of attitudinal healing, Dr. Jampolsky now shares his journey from severe depression, guilt and near alcoholism to a true "miracle": an inner healing and infusion of life that was truly against the odds.

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A collection of monologues, sketches, and stories by fifteen prominent gay humorists features the works of Kate Clinton, Frank Maya, the Pomo Afro Homos, Marga Gomez, Addison and Steele, Frank DeCaro, and David Sedaris. Original.

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After being abandoned by her boyfriend in Honolulu, Sharon Spiegelman embarks on a spiritual quest for enlightenment, a journey that takes her from the Greater Love Salvation Church and the Consciousness Meditation Center back to Judaism and to true love.

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Cassidy challenges parents to relinquish their dependency on "experts" and provides them with the tools to regain confidence in their own instincts.

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Revised and updated, this bestselling reference is a step-by-step guide through this sometimes abstract discipline. The philosophers/authors make their subject matter lively and comprehensible as they delve into such areas as Ethics, Political Philosophy, Metaphysics, and Logic.

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An exciting intellectual tour through the ages showing how mathematical concepts and imagination have helped to illuminate the nature of the observable universe, this book is a delightful narrative "math for poets". Osserman traces the mathematical breakthroughs over the centuries and explains their significance. 40 illustrations throughout.

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For the past three decades, William Abrahams has selected the winners of the O. Henry Awards, "widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious awards for short fiction" (The Atlantic Monthly). The 20 stories in this year's collection offer readers the full sweep and variety of today's fiction. 35,000 peinr.

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This year's O. Henry Award winners, while continuing the rich traditions of the past, have been chosen from more than 2,000 stories published in America and Canada--a superb assemblage of varied, full-bodied fictional creations, selected by the 1997 trio of jurors: Louise Erdrich, Thom Jones, and David Foster Wallace.

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The 79th anniversary of this annual collection of short stories "widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious awards for short fiction" ("The Atlantic Monthly").

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The author of Ishmael recounts the story of his own spiritual odyssey and journey of discovery, from a midnight dream in an Omaha boardinghouse, to a Trappist monastery, to disenchantment with organized religion, to personal revelation. Reprint.

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In this meticulously researched analysis of the Cold War and the man who ended it, Schweizer delves into the origins of Ronald Reagan's vision of America, and documents his consistent, aggressive belief in confronting the Soviet Union diplomatically, economically, and militarily.

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This classic study of European history begins in 500 A.D. with the aftermath of the fall of Rome and ends with the close of the 13th century. Dawson shows how, apidly throughout Europe and changed the face of its culture. "Brilliantly characterized".--The New York Times.

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More than sixty years after Levette Asmore, a talented young artist, committed suicide after destroying his most famous work, a controversial mural, journalist Jack Charbonnet and art restorer Rhys Goudeau discover that the painter may not have destroyed the infamous painting and match wits with gr

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Elenore Bowen experiences witchcraft and the fear of a smallpox epidemic during a year spent among a primitive bush tribe of West Africa.

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Written by three internationally respected women healers, authors, and holistic health pioneers, Rituals of Healing is the first book to integrate a traditional approach to medicine with complementary mind-body techniques for healing and maintaining wellness.

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Written for readers with or without prior knowledge of Buddhism, an introduction to the Pure Land variety of Buddhism, Japan's most popular form of Buddhism, demonstrates its usefulness in daily life and in the search for self.

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Explores the advantages and disadvantages of treating juvenile ADD with Ritalin.

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A collection of the 50 best corporate mission statements in America, and an explanation of how each was written, Say It and Live It includes the mission statements of Kellogg's, IBM, Ben & Jerry's, Citicorp, Hallmark Cards, Boeing, Reader's Digest, Southwest Airlines, UPS, Xerox, and others.