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Acclaimed biographer Edward J. Renehan, Jr., combines lively anecdotes with the rich social tapestry of the Gilded Age to paint the portrait of the most talented financial buccaneer of his generation.

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A long-time chief data scientist at Amazon shows how open data can make everyone, not just corporations, richer

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A new Republican era has dawned ... or has it Will the Right do what it must to shrink government and strengthen family values

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Edgerton paints a vivid picture of the war, from the Charge of the Light Brigade and the heroics of Florence Nightingale to the British soldiers who, simply unable to take the misery, starvation, and cholera any longer, took their own lives.

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Bestselling author Michael Eric Dyson collects his previously unpublished intellectual encounters-cordial and combative-with some of today's most influential thinkers and politicians

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"Harvey Schwartz's territory is the severe end of the child sexual abuse continuum, where victims' experiences are so unthinkable and their adaptations so bizarre that the rest of us are tempted to pro"

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How should we prepare for the day when machines think and feel as well as -- or better than -- humans do

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An entertaining and revealing history that charts the hopes, dreams, fears, and frustrations of Americans as they pursued the good life in an age of affluence.

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Filling a niche in family therapy and disability studies, this superb book offers the latest clinical knowledge about the psychological issues and practical problems faced by children with disabilities and their families throughout the lifespan.

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The classic intellectual autobiography of a great theoretical physicist

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A study of the causes of family conflict draws on the Experience Sampling Method to argue that family life breaks down when members fail to experience the same events in the same way.

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A perspective on urban culture in the latter part of the 20th century through the lens of the World Trade Center.

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A Holocaust survivor and sociologist sheds light on, and celebrates, the motivations behind the benevolent actions of ordinary people

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The rise and fall of the Old Dominion--the decline of Virginia and the splintering of the new republic

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In a mix of the serious and the irreverent, this view of the many rites and phases of lesbian life, from coming out to commitment ceremonies, brings together essays by lesbian and bisexual women of different ages, races, and classes.

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In this long-awaited volume, David Shapiro extends the same stubbornly intuitive clinical vision that informed his phenomenally successful Neurotic Styles to probe the dynamic psychopathological character

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The synthesis of forty years of pioneering work by the world's leading authority on the emotional aspects of eating disorders. "The definitive book on eating disorders....It is a classic."- Shervert H. Frazier, M.D., Harvard Medical School

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Arising from a two-year project by the Council on Foreign Relations to articulate a next generation approach to American foreign policy, this study concludes that any conception of American security must change to address financial and technological opportunities, as well as emerging threats.

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"Miller is an excellent historian...and a fine biographer... [His] artful arrangement of his conclusions...makes the book something of an intellectual thriller."-New York Times Book Review.

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Was there really a golden age of the family in the 1950s,or ever This penetrating history of the American family mounts a withering criticism of the culture of nostalgia" that clouds current debate and offers a plan for reconstituting the American family dream.

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"In recent years, innovative schools have developed courses in what has been termed emotional literacy, emotional intelligence, or emotional competence. This volume evaluates these developments scienti"

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Empires on the Pacific is to be celebrated as one of the best accounts available of the war against Japan.--Toronto Globe and Mail.

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A reissue of the classic work by John Horgan wherein he makes the powerful case that science is ending