-Titulo Original : We Are Soldiers Still A Journey Back To The Battlefields Of Vietnam-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: “Powerful. . . . A candid, highly informative, and heartfelt tale of forgiveness between former fierce enemies in the Vietnam War.” -St. Petersburg TimesThe #1 New York Times bestseller We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young brought to life one of the most pivotal and heartbreaking battles of the Vietnam War. In this powerful sequel, Lt. Gen Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway bring us up to date on the cadre of soldiers introduced in their first memoir. Returning to Vietnam’s Ia Drang Valley more than four decades after the battle, Moore and Galloway renew their relationships with ten American veterans of the fabled conflict-and with former adversaries-exploring how the war changed them all, as well as their two countries. We Are Soldiers Still is an emotional journey back to hallowed ground, putting a human face on warfare as the authors reflect on war’s devastating cost. The book includes an Introduction by Gen H. Norman Schwarzkopf. Review “It would be a monumental task for Moore and Galloway to top their classic 1992 memoir, We Were Soldiers Once...and Young. But they come close in this sterling sequel...This book proves again that Moore is an exceptionally thoughtful, compassionate and courageous leader and a strong voice for reconciliation and for honoring the men with whom he served.” - Publishers Weekly(starred review)“An emotional follow-up to military lifer Moore and reporter Galloway’s intense 1992 telling of the Vietnam War’s first major battle between American and North Vietnamese troops. This time, the two, along with other American survivors of the fight, revisit the Ia Drang valley, scene of the bloody 1965 battle-accompanied by the Communist commanders and soldiers who were trying to kill them.” - New York Post“A worthy and wise successor to one of the best books ever about combat in Vietnam.” - Kirkus Reviews“We Are Soldiers Still tells the recent story of how Moore and Galloway organized meetings with the Vietnamese commanders they’d fought against so fiercely. . . . There is honor and a measure of military glory in the retelling and in the reunion.” - Christian Science Monitor“Bookstores are filled with rows of books on leadership and management, but We Are Soldiers Still stands over the rest. Words like riveting and compelling hardly do the book justice...Moore’s reflections on leadership alone make this book worth its purchase price...Moore and Galloway’s latest volume is a moving tribute to the American soldier.” - Army magazineA moving testimonial. . . .The memoir poignantly addresses the blindness of war and the compensatory urgings of the heart to be human. - Rocky Mountain News From the Back Cover Lt. Gen. Harold Moore and Joseph Galloway return to Vietnams Ia Drang Valley more than four decades after the battle they recalled in their #1 New York Times bestseller We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young. Renewing their relationships with ten American veterans of the fabled conflict-and with former adversaries-the authors explore how the war changed them all, as well as their two countries.We Are Soldiers Still is an emotional journey back to hallowed ground, putting a human face on warfare as the authors reflect on wars devastating cost. About the Author Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (USA Ret.) graduated from West Point, commanded two infantry companies in the Korean War, and was a battalion and brigade commander in Vietnam. After thirty-two years of service, he retired from the Army in 1977.Recently retired senior military correspondent for Knight Ridder Newspapers Joseph L. Galloway served as a special consultant to Gen. Colin Powell at the State Department in 2001 and 2002, and spent more than forty years as an editor and writer for UPI and U.S. News & World Report...

-Titulo Original : The Most Beautiful Walk In The World A Pedestrian In Paris-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: “Splendid... Reading The Most Beautiful Walk in the World is the next best thing to a Paris vacation.” -Boston Globe“Anyone who loves Paris and loves to walk will feel this book was written just for them.” -USA TodayIn this enchanting national bestseller, acclaimed author and long-time expat Paris resident John Baxter draws on his experience guiding literary walking tours through the city to proved a delightful walkers guide to Frances capital. Baxter sets off with unsuspecting tourists in tow on the trail of Pariss legendary artists and writers of the past. Along the way, he tells the history of Paris through a brilliant cast of characters: the favorite cafes of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Joyce; Pablo Picassos underground Montmartre haunts; the bustling boulevards of the late-nineteenth-century flaneurs; the secluded Little Luxembourg gardens beloved by Gertrude Stein; the alleys where revolutionaries plotted; and finally Baxters own favorite walk near his home in Saint-Germain-des-Pres. Review “One of the smartest nonfiction titles for summer reading ... Baxter tracks both the city’s history and the many celebrated figures who have savored the art of walking in one of the world’s most beautiful capitals.” - Christian Science Monitor“A lovely book ... Full of unexpected pleasures ...Parisians claim that walking walking around Paris is an art form in itself, and Baxter proves them right. - Chicago Tribune“A man with a great appreciation of what makes Paris tick.” - Newsday“We are the beneficiaries of John Baxter’s considerable, vivid love for the expatriate life in Paris. ... The Most Beautiful Walk in the World is as close as a reader can get to the feel of a languid spring walk along Baron Haussmann’s boulevards.” - Los Angeles Times“Anyone who loves Paris and loves to walk will feel this book was written just for them. ... Charming.” - USA Today“A splendid memoir ... Reading The Most Beautiful Walk in the World is the next best thing to a Paris vacation.” - Boston Globe“Fabulous . . . the perfect companion for anyone inspired to hop over to France after seeing Midnight in Paris” - NPR From the Back Cover Thrust into the unlikely role of professional literary walking tour guide, an expat writer provides the most irresistibly witty and revealing tour of Paris in years.In this enchanting memoir, acclaimed author and long-time Paris resident John Baxter remembers his yearlong experience of giving literary walking tours through the city. Baxter sets off with unsuspecting tourists in tow on the trail of Pariss legendary artists and writers of the past. Along the way, he tells the history of Paris through a brilliant cast of characters: the favorite cafes of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Joyce; Pablo Picassos underground Montmartre haunts; the bustling boulevards of the late-nineteenth-century flaneurs; the secluded Little Luxembourg gardens beloved by Gertrude Stein; the alleys where revolutionaries plotted; and finally Baxters own favorite walk near his home in Saint-Germain-des-Pres. About the Author John Baxter has lived in Paris for more than twenty years. He is the author of four acclaimed memoirs about his life in France: The Perfect Meal: In Search of the Lost Tastes of France; The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris; Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas; and Well Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light. Baxter, who gives literary walking tours through Paris, is also a film critic and biographer whose subjects have included the directors Fellini, Kubrick, Woody Allen, and most recently, Josef von Sternberg. Born in Australia, he lives with his wife and daughter in the Saint-Germain-des-Pres neighborhood, in the same building Sylvia Beach called home...

-Titulo Original : Logical Family A Memoir-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: A book for any of us, gay or straight, who have had to find our family. Maupin is one of America’s finest storytellers.-Neil GaimanI fell in love with Maupin’s effervescent Tales of the City decades ago, and his genius turn at memoir is no less compelling. Logical Family is a must read.-Mary KarrIn this long-awaited memoir, the beloved author of the bestselling Tales of the City series chronicles his odyssey from the old South to freewheeling San Francisco, and his evolution from curious youth to ground-breaking writer and gay rights pioneer.Born in the mid-twentieth century and raised in the heart of conservative North Carolina, Armistead Maupin lost his virginity to another man on the very spot where the first shots of the Civil War were fired. Realizing that the South was too small for him, this son of a traditional lawyer packed his earthly belongings into his Opel GT (including a beloved portrait of a Confederate ancestor), and took to the road in search of adventure. It was a journey that would lead him from a homoerotic Navy initiation ceremony in the jungles of Vietnam to that strangest of strange lands: San Francisco in the early 1970s. Reflecting on the profound impact those closest to him have had on his life, Maupin shares his candid search for his logical family, the people he could call his own. Sooner or later, we have to venture beyond our biological family to find our logical one, the one that actually makes sense for us, he writes. We have to, if we are to live without squandering our lives. From his loving relationship with his palm-reading Grannie who insisted Maupin was the reincarnation of her artistic bachelor cousin, Curtis, to an awkward conversation about girls with President Richard Nixon in the Oval Office, Maupin tells of the extraordinary individuals and situations that shaped him into one of the most influential writers of the last century. Maupin recalls his losses and life-changing experiences with humor and unflinching honesty, and brings to life flesh-and-blood characters as endearing and unforgettable as the vivid, fraught men and women who populate his enchanting novels. What emerges is an illuminating portrait of the man who depicted the liberation and evolution of America’s queer community over the last four decades with honesty and compassion-and inspired millions to claim their own lives.Logical Family includes black-and-white photographs. Review “A sweetly frank and funny memoir by a storyteller in the first rank.” - O Magazine“Entertaining…. Wry and sharply drawn…. There is a good deal of what one expects from Maupin, wit and heartache rolled up into a tidy package, so that any anecdote can bring an ache of longing and a belly laugh all in the same paragraph. There is also vivid, sharp writing.” - New York Times Book Review“I fell in love with Maupin’s effervescent Tales of the City decades ago, and his genius turn at memoir is no less compelling. Logical Family is a must read.” - Mary Karr“Engaging and revelatory, Maupin’s memoir is a delight, punctuating a distinguished career in letters.” - San Francisco Chronicle“A book for any of us, gay or straight, who have had to find our family. Maupin is one of America’s finest storytellers, and the story of his life is a story as fascinating, as delightful and as compulsive as any of the tales he has made up for us.” - Neil Gaiman“Wise, witty, and beautifully told.” - People, Book of the Week“Logical Family gives selflessly of such heartrending experience as it journeys through Maupin’s life.” - Slate“Vivid and charming.” - Minneapolis Star Tribune“Maupin is a gifted story teller. His memoir packs much into 289 pages.... Humorous and poignant by turns.” - Charlotte News & Observer“Engrossing and emotional…. The story is told with such clarity that even those unfamiliar with Maupin’s work can appreciate his life experiences…. The true prize here is the cleverness with which Maupin bares his sou...

-Titulo Original : Land How The Hunger For Ownership Shaped The Modern World-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: “In many ways, Land combines bits and pieces of many of Winchester’s previous books into a satisfying, globe-trotting whole. . . . Winchester is, once again, a consummate guide.”-Boston GlobeThe author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and The Perfectionists explores the notion of property-bought, earned, or received; in Europe, Africa, North America, or the South Pacific-through human history, how it has shaped us and what it will mean for our future.Land-whether meadow or mountainside, desert or peat bog, parkland or pasture, suburb or city-is central to our existence. It quite literally underlies and underpins everything. Employing the keen intellect, insatiable curiosity, and narrative verve that are the foundations of his previous bestselling works, Simon Winchester examines what we human beings are doing-and have done-with the billions of acres that together make up the solid surface of our planet.Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World examines in depth how we acquire land, how we steward it, how and why we fight over it, and finally, how we can, and on occasion do, come to share it. Ultimately, Winchester confronts the essential question: who actually owns the world’s land-and why does it matter? Review The latest sweeping, satisfying popular history from the British American author and journalist, this time covering a topic that many of us take for granted...Engaging revelations about land and property, often discouraging but never dull. - Kirkus ReviewsExudes the comfort and charm of a beloved encyclopedia come to life. - New YorkerIn many ways, “Land” combines bits and pieces of many of Winchester’s previous books into a satisfying, globe-trotting whole...Winchester is, once again, a consummate guide. - Boston Globe About the Author Simon Winchester is the acclaimed author of many books, including The Professor and the Madman, The Men Who United the States, The Map That Changed the World, The Man Who Loved China, A Crack in the Edge of the World, and Krakatoa, all of which were New York Times bestsellers and appeared on numerous best and notable lists. In 2006, Winchester was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Her Majesty the Queen. He resides in western Massachusetts...

-Titulo Original : The Secret Of Chanel No. 5 The Intimate History Of The Worlds Most Famous Perfume-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: “Who knew that such a tiny bottle housed so many secrets?” - Michael Tonello, author of Bringing Home the Birkin“Here is the life of one of the 20th century’s most interesting and deeply complicated women, a fascinating cultural history, and the story of an extraordinary perfume.” - Chandler Burr, New York Times scent critic and author of The Perfect ScentTilar J. Mazzeo, author of the New York Times bestseller The Widow Clicquot (an Amazon Best of the Month book in October 2008) returns with a captivating history of the world’s most famous, seductive, and popular perfume: Chanel No. 5. Mazzeo’s sweeping story of the iconic scent (known as “le monstre” in the fragrance industry) stretches from Coco Chanel’s early success to the rise of the seminal fragrance during the 1950s to the confirmation of its bestseller status in today’s crowded perfume market. Review “[Mazzeo] explores interconnections between designer and perfume, teasing out the relationship with delicacy.” - New York Times Book Review“[In] the skilled hands of cultural historian Mazzeo, [the perfume] becomes a magnificent window through which to understand [Coco Chanel] and her milieu... Impeccable research and crafting make a seemingly narrow topic feel infinitely important.” - Kirkus Reviews“This is one case where historical fact eclipses the legend and lore of the object itself-there’s much, much more than meets the nose to discover in these pages.” - Booklist“Engaging.” - Wall Street Journal“Mazzeo’s lush prose...never bogs down in the details-despite the extensive research showcased in the bibliography-and a smooth pacing keeps it moving along at a fast clip. This work is definitely recommended to lovers of 20th-century cultural history, Coco Chanel, and, of course, the world’s best-selling perfume.” - Library Journal“Mazzeo has written an account of the rarest of things-an international olfactory icon-that fairly rushes off the pages. Here is the life of one of the 20th century’s most interesting and deeply complicated women, a fascinating cultural history, and the story of an extraordinary perfume.” - Chandler Burr, New York Times scent critic and author of The Perfect Scent“Told in a light and graceful style that is just right for its subject…. [I]t’s a fascinating trip, made even more so by Ms. Mazzeo’s charming cameo appearances as a kind of tour guide…. This example of Barbe-Nicole’s voice is exceptional…an intoxicating business biography.” - Julia Flynn Siler, Wall Street Journal“The true brilliance of The Secret of Chanel No. 5 is Tilar Mazzeo’s ability to take a subject one would never have thought possible to think very deeply about and then cover it so captivatingly. Who knew that such a tiny bottle housed so many secrets?” - Michael Tonello, author of Bringing Home the Birkin“Anyone who’s ever dawdled in front of a perfume counter will love Tilar Mazzeo’s fascinating history of the perfume known simply as No. 5; her rich and witty account is as compelling as the fragrance itself. ” - Karen Karbo, author of The Gospel According to Coco Chanel“The Widow Clicquot, Tilar J. Mazzeo’s sweeping oenobiography of Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin, is the story of a woman who was a smashing success long before anyone conceptualized the glass ceiling.” - New York Times Book Review“Tilar J. Mazzeo’s informed and enlightening biography of Madame Clicquot, the widow and, more important, the businesswoman, retrieves her vintage story as if looking for a rare bottle in one of the Champagne region’s deepest caves.” - Newsday“A miraculous feat of organization, one worthy of a doctoral thesis…. [I]n its moments of action, this is actually a gripping story. And while the book appears to be a feminist history/business biography, it’s also the appealing story of the author’s odyssey.” - Austin Chronicle“If you like champagne, “The Widow Clicquot” by Tilar J. Mazzeo is definitely worth a drink.” - Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers“An entici...

-Titulo Original : Atlantic Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, And A Vast Ocean Of A Million Stories-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring…A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account. -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester tells the breathtaking saga of the Atlantic Ocean. A gifted storyteller and consummate historian, Winchester sets the great blue seas epic narrative against the backdrop of mankinds intellectual evolution, telling not only the story of an ocean, but the story of civilization. Fans of Winchesters Krakatoa, The Man Who Loved China, and The Professor and the Madman will love this masterful, penetrating, and resonant tale of humanity finding its way across the ocean of history. Review “Winchester brings a knowledge as vast and deep as his subject to this history of the Atlantic Ocean.” - Entertainment Weekly From the Back Cover Atlantic is a biography of a tremendous space that has been central to the ambitions of explorers, scientists, and warriors, and continues profoundly to affect our character, attitudes, and dreams. Simon Winchester makes the Atlantic come vividly alive. Spanning the ocean’s story from its geological origins to the age of exploration-covering the Vikings, the Irish, the Basques, John Cabot, and Christopher Columbus in the north, and the Portuguese and the Spanish in the south-and from World War II battles to today’s struggles with pollution and overfishing, his narrative is epic, intimate, and awe inspiring. More than a mere history, this is an unforgettable journey of unprecedented scope by one of the most gifted writers in the English language. About the Author Simon Winchester is the acclaimed author of many books, including The Professor and the Madman, The Men Who United the States, The Map That Changed the World, The Man Who Loved China, A Crack in the Edge of the World, and Krakatoa, all of which were New York Times bestsellers and appeared on numerous best and notable lists. In 2006, Winchester was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Her Majesty the Queen. He resides in western Massachusetts...

-Titulo Original : This Is The Story Of A Happy Marriage-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick “I had been so engaged by Ann Patchett’s multifaceted story, so lured in by her confiding voice, that I forgot I was on the job. […] As the best personal essays often do, Patchett’s is a two-way mirror, reflecting both the author and her readers.” — New York Times Book Review Blending literature and memoir, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder, Run, and Bel Canto, examines her deepest commitments—to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband—creating a resonant portrait of a life in This is the Story of a Happy Marriage. Stretching from her childhood to the present day, from a disastrous early marriage to a later happy one, This is the Story of a Happy Marriage covers a multitude of topics, including relationships with family and friends, and charts the hard work and joy of writing, and the unexpected thrill of opening a bookstore. As she shares stories of the people, places, ideals, and art to which she has remained indelibly committed, Ann Patchett brings into focus the large experiences and small moments that have shaped her as a daughter, wife, and writer...

-Titulo Original : Love Story-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: Divertida, conmovedora y llena de asombro, como deberían ser todas las historias de amor. —Examinador de San Francisco La icónica historia de amor y pérdida que ha tocado los corazones de millones, Love Story se ha convertido en una de las novelas más adoradas de nuestro tiempo. Ha vendido más de veintiún millones de copias en todo el mundo y se convirtió en un éxito de taquilla protagonizado por Ryan ONeal y Ali McGraw. Es la historia que le dijo al mundo: “Amar significa no tener que pedir perdón nunca”. Esta edición especial de aniversario incluye una introducción de la hija del autor, Francesca Segal...

-Titulo Original : Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat [second Edition] Why Its So Hard To Think Straight About Animals-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: “A fascinating, thoughtful, and thoroughly enjoyable exploration of a major dimension of human experience.”- Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Works A maverick scientist reveals the inconsistent and often paradoxical ways humans think, feel, and behave toward animals in this engaging, informative, and though-provoking book, now newly revised. Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat is a highly entertaining and illuminating journey through the full spectrum of human-animal relations. Drawing on his groundbreaking research in the field of anthrozoology, Dr. Hal Herzog tries to make sense of our complex relationships with animals and the challenging moral conundrums we face regarding these creatures who share our world-and some, our homes. A blend of anthropology, behavioral economics, evolutionary psychology, and philosophy, updated to reflect evolving attitudes and the most recent findings, Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat is a poignant, often challenging, and frequently laugh-out-loud funny trip through a world of animal rights activists, cockfighters, professional dog-show handlers, veterinary students, biomedical researchers, and more. It will forever change the way we think about other living creatures and, ultimately, how we see ourselves. Review “A wonderful book-wildly readable, funny, scientifically sound, and with surprising moments of deep, challenging thoughts. I loved it.” -- Robert M. Sapolsky, Neuroscientist, Stanford University, and author of Monkeyluv and A Primates Memoir “Everybody who is interested in the ethics of our relationship between humans and animals should read this book.” -- Temple Grandin, author of Animals Make Us Human “Hal Herzog does for our relationships with animals what Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma did for our relationships with food. . . . The book is a joy to read, and no matter what your beliefs are now, it will change how you think.” -- Sam Gosling, Professor of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, author of Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You “Reminiscent of Freakonomics. . . . An agreeable guide to popular avenues of inquiry in the field of anthrozoology.” -- The New Yorker “Wonderful. . . . An engagingly written book that only seems to be about animals. Herzog’s deepest questions are about men, women and children.” -- Cleveland Plain Dealer “A fun read. . . . What buoys this book is Herzog’s voice. He’s an assured, knowledgeable and friendly guide.” -- Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers “A fascinating, thoughtful, and thoroughly enjoyable exploration of a major dimension of human experience.” -- Steven Pinker, Harvard College Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of How the Mind Works and The Stuff of Thought “An instant classic. . . . Written so accessibly and personally, while simultaneously satisfying the scholar in all of us.” -- Arnold Arluke, Anthrozoos “An intelligent and amusing book that invites us to think deeply about how we define-and where we limit-our empathy for animals.” -- Publishers Weekly “Herzog argues that moral absolutes are not readily available in a complex world-one that exists in shades of grey, rather than the black and white of animal rights activists and their opponents. . . . Herzog has a clear eye for the essence of a scientific study, but he leavens his narrative with illuminating personal stories and self-deprecating humor.” -- Nature About the Author Hal Herzog is recognized as one of the world’s leading anthrozoologists. He is a professor of psychology at Western Carolina University and lives in the Great Smoky Mountains with his wife Mary Jean...

-Titulo Original : Fetch How A Bad Dog Brought Me Home-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: From an award-winning artist, a memoir of life with a difficult, beloved dog that will resonate with anybody who has ever had a less than perfectly behaved pet. When Nicole Georges was sixteen she adopted Beija, a dysfunctional shar-pei/corgi mix-a troublesome combination of tiny and attack, just like teenaged Nicole herself. For the next fifteen years, Beija would be the one constant in her life. Through depression, relationships gone awry, and an unmoored young adulthood played out against the backdrop of the Portland punk scene, Beija was there, wearing her “Don’t Pet Me” bandana. Georges’s gorgeous graphic novel Fetch chronicles their symbiotic, codependent relationship and probes what it means to care for and be responsible to another living thing-a living thing that occasionally lunges at toddlers. Nicole turns to vets, dog whisperers, and even a pet psychic for help, but it is the moments of accommodation, adaptation, and compassion that sustain them. Nicole never successfully taught Beija “sit,” but in the end, Beija taught Nicole how to stay. Review A touching, memorable dog tale bound to connect with animal lovers, graphic novel readers, memoir fans, and anyone intrigued with how pets and their owners reflect and sustain one another. -- Lambda Literary Fetch is beautiful. Georgess artwork is inviting and frank as she tells a touching story of companionship and personal growth. A dog pack of two, she and Beija form a special bond, a friendship that hits home. -- Shelf Awareness “This book is an homage to classic zine aesthetics that captures an incomparable friendship. An honest, moving portrayal of the essential bond between humans and animals.”- STARRED Publishers Weekly “Touchingly, beautifully conveyed. Part grief memoir, part coming-of-age story, part feminist manifesto, this well-written, splendidly illustrated title…will stir the hearts of misunderstood riot grrrls, owners of unruly canines, and LGBTQ readers.” - STARRED Library Journal “Nicole Georges makes my favorite art about love and vulnerability. More than a tribute to a canine best friend, Fetch maps Georgess journey from teen to adult with heartbreaking honesty and tender joy. I am in awe of Georgess uncanny ability to transport me right into her world of moldy crusty punk houses and glorious vegan lesbian barbecues. Funny, gorgeous, and true.” - Jill Soloway, creator of Transparent “From feral child to leader of the pack, Nicole Georges comes to know a thing or two about dogs, and incidentally, about herself. Her luminous, lyrical drawings of animals are charged with strange insight, and add a potent nonverbal element to the narrative of Georges’ youth. Fetch combines the best qualities of diary comics-particularity and granular detail-with the zoomed out view of someone who has completed an arduous, mythic, and expansive journey.” - Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home and Are You My Mother? “Nicole’s work always punches me in the guts with her unending longing for a home. Through constant disappointments and the challenges of owning a rescue dog and a rescue heart, she unflinchingly refuses to quit. A magical world so full of tenderness it might just break you, it’s a place I love to visit and rarely want to leave. I want Nicole to draw the whole world, but her hands would fall off.” -Sarah Shapiro, co-creator of Unreal About the Author Nicole J. Georges is a professor, writer, and illustrator, who has been publishing her own zines and comics for twenty years. She is the author of the Lambda Award-winning graphic memoir Calling Dr. Laura and the diary comic Invincible Summer. She lives in Portland, Oregon...

-Titulo Original : To Explain The World The Discovery Of Modern Science-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: A masterful commentary on the history of science from the Greeks to modern times, by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg-a thought-provoking and important book by one of the most distinguished scientists and intellectuals of our time. In this rich, irreverent, and compelling history, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg takes us across centuries from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad and Oxford, from Plato’s Academy and the Museum of Alexandria to the cathedral school of Chartres and the Royal Society of London. He shows that the scientists of ancient and medieval times not only did not understand what we understand about the world-they did not understand what there is to understand, or how to understand it. Yet over the centuries, through the struggle to solve such mysteries as the curious backward movement of the planets and the rise and fall of the tides, the modern discipline of science eventually emerged. Along the way, Weinberg examines historic clashes and collaborations between science and the competing spheres of religion, technology, poetry, mathematics, and philosophy. An illuminating exploration of the way we consider and analyze the world around us, To Explain the World is a sweeping, ambitious account of how difficult it was to discover the goals and methods of modern science, and the impact of this discovery on human knowledge and development. Review “A thoughtful history.” -- The New Yorker “The long march toward the modern scientific method is well-trodden territory for historians of science, but in tackling this familiar topic, Steven Weinberg offers a thoughtful, supplementary viewpoint.” -- The Washington Post “Steven Weinberg, the world’s preeminent physicist, provides a masterful journey through humankind’s scientific coming of age. With its refreshing candor and lyrical prose, To Explain the World is a delightful celebration of our passionate drive for understanding.” -- Brian Greene “This book transmutes the base metal of a mere history of science into pure gold -- into a magisterial celebration of a long and heroic struggle, still incomplete, to understand nature. Only a committed scientist of Steven Weinberg’s brilliance, experience and breadth of insight could have accomplished this.” -- Ian McEwan “Refreshing and well-written. . . . To Explain the World tells a rich, meaningful tale about the emergence of science.” -- The New York Times Book Review “Fascinating. . . . A sweeping narrative of the progression of ideas. . . . Weinberg masterfully explains how the emergence of the modern scientific method, the mechanism by which we interrogate the world and devise well-supported explanations we can be confident in, is itself a discovery.” -- Lewis Dartnell, The Telegraph “Weinberg exemplifies a growing tendency in popular science writing to offer the matter of science and not just a superficial reading. It gives the book a bracing intellectuality. . . . This is a great book, a necessary book for our time.” -- The Independent “A refreshing contrast to other tomes on the topic. . . . With To Explain the World, Weinberg reminds us to be humble not only about what we know, but how we know it. It’s a nuance, but an important one.” -- The Guardian “I am amazed by what Steven Weinberg has done in this book. It is a unique and highly civilizing guide, obviously the result of years of wide-ranging scholarship, even with strategic humor.” -- Gerald Holton “Weinberg is a fine writer and communicator about ideas beyond his own field. . . . He has clearly carried out extensive scholarly investigation for the book, and it works as history. But what makes it stand out is his perspective as a top scientist working today.” -- Financial Times From the Back Cover “Refreshing and well-written . . . tells a rich, meaningful tale about the emergence of science.”-New York Times Book Review “A masterful journey through humankind’s scientific comin...

-Titulo Original : Howl A Graphic Novel-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: First published in 1956, Allen Ginsbergs Howl is a prophetic masterpiece--an epic raging against dehumanizing society that overcame censorship trials and obscenity charges to become one of the most widely read poems of the century. ? Now a major motion picture, starring James Franco, Howl was directed by two-time Academy Award-winners Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman, who hired Eric Drooker to animate the poem. Howl: A Graphic Novel visualizes the poem--stanza by stanza--with full color animation art Drooker designed for the film. [Printed on recycled paper with Soy Ink, this luxury art book has french flaps and spot gloss on cover.] Review A swirling, ever-changing universe, expand an often painfully personal poem about (among other things) one mans unrequited love into a visual metaphor for the alienation of an entire generation. - Newsweek Drookers Howl illustrations tend to feature elongated figures and sweeping, richly colored landscapes--making up a fantastical world that reflects the text. - The Wall Street Journal The most creative part of the movie is Eric Drookers melodramatic drawings (fully animated)...lunging through the skyscrapers and alleys of modern experience. - David Denby, The New Yorker From the Author Introduction by Eric Drooker First time I hung with Allen Ginsberg, one long hot summer night in 1988, the streets were hopping mad. Riot cops on horseback were slowly moving in our direction, enforcing a midnight curfew, but the chanting crowd refused to leave Tompkins Square Park--a refuge for punks, homeless, squatters, artists and other riffraff whod been keeping real estate prices down on Manhattans Lower East Side. When the police charged, swinging clubs, we lost each other in the crowd. When I bumped into Allen a year later, and he realized that I was the artist whod created so many of the street posters in the neighborhood, he admitted that hed been peeling them off brick walls and lampposts, and collecting them at home. He suggested we do a poster together. Over time, we collaborated on numerous projects, bouncing his words off my pictures. Our book, Illuminated Poems, became an underground classic, and ultimately caught the attention of filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. They were just starting to direct a feature film about Allens early poem Howl and its historical significance--with Hollywood actors playing Ginsberg and his friends, Jack Kerouac and Neil Cassady. When they approached me with the ingenious idea of animating Howl, I thought they were nuts and said sure, lets animate Dantes Inferno while were at it! Then they told me Id work with a team of studio animators who would bring my pictures to life . . . how could I say no? Last time I hung with Allen Ginsberg was on a cold winter night three months before he died. Over the phone hed invited me to join him for dinner at his favorite Chinese restaurant. As usual, we discussed current events, politics, and eventually got onto the subject of art. Allen brought up the painting The Triumph of Death by the 16th century master, Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Have you ever seen it . . . in real life? he asked. No . . . not yet. Where is it? I asked. Its in Spain, in the Prado Museum. Its enormous and fucking terrifying! After supper we went up to his apartment, where Allen was in the process of getting rid of things he no longer needed. Hey Eric, you want this jacket? It looks about your size. He handed me a crimson-red blazer jacket. I tried it on. . . . Good fit he said, now its yours. From the Inside Flap In publishing Howl, I was curious to leave behind after my generation an emotional time bomb that would continue exploding in U.S. consciousness, in case our military-industrial- nationalist complex solidified into a repressive police bureau...

-Titulo Original : A Perfect Red Empire, Espionage, And The Quest For The Color Of Desire-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: In the sixteenth century, one of the worlds most precious commodities was cochineal, a legendary red dye treasured by the ancient Mexicans and sold in the great Aztec marketplaces, where it attracted the attention of the Spanish conquistadors. Shipped to Europe, the dye created a sensation, producing the brightest, strongest red the world had ever seen. Soon Spains cochineal monopoly was worth a fortune. As the English, French, Dutch, and other Europeans joined the chase for cochineal -- a chase that lasted for more than three centuries -- a tale of pirates, explorers, alchemists, scientists, and spies unfolds. A Perfect Red evokes with style and verve this history of a grand obsession, of intrigue, empire, and adventure in pursuit of the most desirable color on earth. Review “Delightful, rollicking history . . . A fun read, well-supported by extensive research.” -- Los Angeles Times Book Review “Fascinating...Greenfield has given us a superbly researched history of cochineal red, full of angles and tangents, curiosities and arcana.” -- Diane Ackerman, Washington Post Book World “With A PERFECT RED, she does for [red] what Mark Kurlansky in SALT did for that common commodity.” -- Houston Chronicle “A fascinating story of greed and subterfuge, mixing fashion, folly and ingenuity in equal measure... Written with style and verve.” -- J. H. Elliott, University of Oxford “A marvelous book... Meticulously researched, this saga will enchant lovers of historical mysteries, fascinating characters, and world economics.” -- Mark Pendergrast, author of UNCOMMON GROUNDS and MIRROR MIRROR “A gem of accessible history.” -- San Diego Union-Tribune “[An] intricate history...Greenfield paints a broad historical panorama, never neglecting the intimate, eccentric, and often absurd human details.” -- Boston Globe “Greenfield does what the best historical authors do--follows the thread of a story through history without missing a stitch.” -- Cleveland Plain Dealer About the Author Amy Butler Greenfields grandfather and great-grandfather were dyers, and she has long been fascinated by the history of color. Born in Philadelphia, she grew up in the Adirondacks and graduated from Williams College. As a Marshall Scholar at Oxford, she studied imperial Spain and Renaissance Europe. She now lives with her husband near Boston...

-Titulo Original : Sunday Money Speed! Lust! Madness! Death! A Hot Lap Around America With Nascar-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: NASCAR racing, once considered no more than a regional circuit of moonshiners pounding around low-country dirt tracks in a cloud of red dust and cliche, has somehow become Americas fastest-growing spectator sport. With 75 million ardent fans, it is a sports entertainment empire built at the very crossroads of pop culture, corporate commerce, and American mythology -- a platinum-plated, V-8 hero machine. Smart, funny, and profane, Sunday Money is the kaleidoscopic account of a season on the NASCAR circuit. Driving 48,000 miles in a tiny motor home, Jeff MacGregor and his wife tracked the lives of superstar drivers like Junior Earnhardt and Tony Stewart, their crews, and their fans across the grinding reach of a 40-week season. More than just a behind-the-scenes chronicle of Americas loudest pastime, Sunday Money is the story of a hundred stories, of red states and blue, of splendid Rebels and Yankee hotshoes. It is a brilliant snapshot of American culture -- of race, religion, class, sex, money, and fame -- taken from the window of a moving car. About the Author Jeff MacGregor, a special contributor for Sports Illustrated, has written for the New York Times, The New Yorker, and Esquire. He is a six-time National Magazine Award nominee and a multiple Pushcart Prize and O. Henry Prize nominee, and his work has been anthologized in The Best American Sports Writing...

-Titulo Original : Stupid Things Parents Do To Mess Up Their Kids Dont Have Them If You Wont Raise Them-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: Parenthood by Proxy is a passionate and provocative summation of the perils of parenting and a road map to safety for Americas families. Never one to shy away from tough truths, Dr. Laura marshals compelling evidence for the widespread neglect of Americas children and condemns the numerous rationalizations to excuse it. Parents, special interest groups, and professionals in education and psychology all contribute to a dangerous trend that places adult fulfillment above obligation to children. Parenthood by Proxy addresses the causes and effects of this national crisis, among them the high rate of divorce, serial marriages, single parenting, the premature sexualization of children, dual-career families, disdain for religion, the redefinition of immoral behavior as lifestyle choices, and societal intolerance for the concept of judgment. In Parenthood by Proxy, Dr. Laura exhorts parents to make their own children their top priority and, if necessary, to change their lives to do so. In her straight-shooting style, Dr. Laura entreats parents to involve themselves in their childrens hearts, minds, and souls, to cherish and protect them, and to commit to the essential task of teaching them right from wrong. She acknowledges that parents no longer get much support from neighbors or public and private institutions, but she urges mothers and fathers to work even harder to counteract the prevailing culture of selfishness and irresponsibility. Parenthood by Proxy covers all aspects of parenting, from childbearing to discipline, from multiple families to being role models. From the Back Cover Following her previous New York Times bestsellers, Dr.Laura Schlessinger, the conscience of talk radio, now addresses an issue near and dear to her heart: the stupid things parents do to mess up their children. Never one to shy away from tough truths, Dr. Laura marshals compelling evidence for the widespread neglect of Americas children and convincingly condemns the numerous rationalizations to excuse it. These are just a few of her hard-hitting points: Dont Have Them If You Wont Raise Them: The cavalier manner in which our society treats child care, not as a matter of intimacy and love, but as a matter of convenience and economics, is deeply destructive to our childrens sense of attachment, identity, and importance. Dads Need Not Apply: Single motherhood may be more acceptable to society, but it is not acceptable to children; nor is it in their best interest. Brave New Baby: In our society, reproductive freedom means anyone can decide to create a life by any means with no, and I mean no, consideration of what is in the best interest of that new human being. Spare the Rod: Children without discipline often become adults with tempertantrums, defiance, rage, depression, anxiety, poor school and work adjustment, drug and alcohol abuse. Stupid Things Parents Do to Mess Up Their Kids covers all aspects of parenting and also tackles such cultural and societal concerns as abortion, modern sexuality, drug and alcohol use, violence, discipline, and a childs right to privacy. About the Author One of the most popular hosts in radio history-with millions of listeners weekly-Dr. Laura Schlessinger has been offering no-nonsense advice infused with a strong sense of personal responsibility for more than 40 years. Her internationally syndicated radio program is now on SiriusXM Triumph Channel 111, and is streamed on the Internet and podcast. Shes a best-selling author of eighteen books, which range from the provocative (New York Times chart topper The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands) to the poignant (childrens book Why Do You Love Me?). Shes on and (with over 1.7 million followers), and her Call of the Day podcast has exceeded one hundred million downloads. She has raised millions for veterans and their families with her boutique, DrLauraDesigns , which benefits the Ch...

-Titulo Original : And Still We Rise The Trials And Triumphs Of Twelve Gifted Inner-city Students-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: Bestselling author of The Killing Season and veteran Los Angeles Times reporter Miles Corwin spent a school year with twelve high school seniors -- South-Central kids who qualified for a gifted program because of their exceptional IQs and test scores. Sitting alongside them in classrooms where bullets were known to rip through windows, Corwin chronicled their amazing odyssey as they faced the greatest challenges of their academic lives. And Still We Rise is an unforgettable story of transcending obstacles that would dash the hopes of any but the most exceptional spirits. Review This is a book as penetrating as it is brilliantly told. Miles Corwin has recorded, like a camera moving through a series of rooms, the human meaning of the lives he observed. What a stunning accomplishment.--Leon Bing, author of Do or DieCorwin gives added meaning to my grandmothers inspiring words to me as I struggled in poverty on our Alabama tenant farm in the 1940s. It doesnt take much yeast to make the bread rise, she said. Heroic, creative, and productive people dont all come from fine prep schools and successful parents. Corwin reminds us that, given a chance, the spark of genius can be ignited in the most unlikely student from the meanest places in our country.--Morris Dees, Southern Poverty Law CenterMiles Corwins And Still We Rise is a book that both lifts the heart and afflicts the soul. It is an account of dreams fulfilled, of children from shattered families in a murderous neighborhood who will themselves into a program for gifted students and ultimately into college and the American mainsteam. It is also an account of dreams endangered--by a society that thinks the SAT is the sole measure of merit, by a ghetto culture that glorifies self-destruction and academic failure, and even by a pair of teachers whose brilliance is undermined by their own bitter feud.--Samuel G. Freedman, author of Small VictoriesWhether following the travails facing the vividly characterized students or those facing the class instructor, Toni Little, Corwin kept his own journalistic focus throughout a project that presented professional and ethical challenges of the most exasperating sort. He details the subsequent defeats and triumphs of will and discipline and keeps the storygritty and gripping, even when explaining history . . . The stakes here are comparable to those in the documentary Hoop Dreams, and Corwin manages to give academic failure and triumph the same dignified solidity. Reportage of the highest order.--Kirkus Reviews (*starred*)Los Angeles Times reporter Corwin offers a viscerally affecting glimpse inside the world of an inner city high school. His profiles of high achievers who shun the temptations of the street are sure to inspire.--Publishers Weekly. . . The real story here is the students, and Corwin wisely keeps them front and center. His detailed and unabashedly sympathetic descriptions are riveting. Most affecting is Olivia, a street-savvy foster child whose efforts to survive entangle her in the citys penal system. Setbacks seem to follow each of Olivias advances, and her efforts function like a refrain throughout this haunting book. And Still We Rise manages to be both engrossing and heartbreaking at the same time.--Jabari Asim, The Washington Post MagazineSplendid.--Los Angeles Times Book Review[And Still We Rise] is the story of overcoming against all odds, of triumph in the face of what for so many would have been disaster . . . If you put no other book on yoru summer reading list, you should definitely share Corwins journey through the lives of these students.--Los Angeles Times About the Author A native of Los Angeles, Miles Corwin is an award-winning reporter for the Los Angeles Times and the author of the critically acclaimed The Killing Season, a national bestseller. He lives with his family outside Los Angeles, California...

-Titulo Original : Ideas A History Of Thought And Invention, From Fire To Freud-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: Peter Watsons hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day-from the invention of writing, mathematics, science, and philosophy to the rise of such concepts as the law, sacrifice, democracy, and the soul-offers an illuminated path to a greater understanding of our world and ourselves. Review “This is a grand book...The history of ideas deserves treatment on this scale.” -- Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Evening Standard (London) “A superior specimen, with numerous interesting factoids...thought-provoking short essays.” -- John Derbyshire, New York Sun “A masterpiece of historical writing.” -- John Gray, Professor of European Thought, London School of Economics, New Statesman “[An] extraordinary new book....This is the history of ‘ideas’ as it has never been presented before.” -- Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph (London) About the Author Peter Watson has been a senioreditor at the London Sunday Times, a New York correspondentof the London Times, a columnist for theLondon Observer, and a contributor to the New YorkTimes. He has published three exposes on the world ofart and antiquities, and is the author of several booksof cultural and intellectual history. From 1997 to 2007he was a research associate at the McDonald Institutefor Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge.He lives in London. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Ideas A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud By Peter Watson HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. Copyright © 2006 Peter WatsonAll right reserved. ISBN: 0060935642 Chapter One Ideas Before Language George Schaller, director of the Wildlife Conservation Division of the New York Zoological Society, is known to his fellow biologists as a meticulous observer of wild animals. In a long and distinguished career he has made many systematic studies of lions, tigers, cheetahs, leopards, wild dogs, mountain gorillas and hyenas. His book, The Last Panda, published in 1993, recorded many new and striking facts about the animal the Chinese call the bearcat. He found that on one occasion a sick panda had gone freely to a human family in the Wolong area, where it was fed sugar and rice porridge for three days, until it recovered and returned to the forest.1 In the late 1960s Schaller and a colleague spent a few days on the Serengeti plain in Tanzania, East Africa, where they made a simple observation which had escaped everyone else. In the course of those few days, they stumbled across quite a lot of dead meat just lying around. They found dead buffalo, the butchered remains of lion kills, and they also came across a few incapacitated animals that would have been easy prey for carnivores. Smaller deer (like Thompsons gazelles) remained uneaten for barely a day but larger animals, such as adult buffalo, persisted as significant food resources for about four days.2Schaller concluded from this that early humans could have survived quite easily on the Serengeti simply by scavenging, that there was enough ruin in the bush for them to live on without going hunting. Other colleagues subsequently pointed out that even today the Hadza, a hunter-gathering tribe who live in northern Tanzania, sometimes scavenge by creeping up on lions who have made a kill and then creating a loud din. The lions are frightened away. This outline of mans earliest lifestyle is conjectural.3 And to dignify the practice as an idea is surely an exaggeration: this was instinct at work. But scavenging, unromantic as it sounds, may not be such a bad starting-point. It may even be that the open African savannah was the type of environment which favoured animals who were generalists, as much as specialists, like a hippopotamus, for example, or a giraffe, and it is this which stimulated mankinds intelligence in the first place. The scavenging hypothesis has, however, found recent support from a study...

-Titulo Original : Woman Power Transform Your Man, Your Marriage, Your Life-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: The perfect companion book for the woman who wants to ensure herself-and her man-that the marital happiness and satisfaction she dreams of is possible. With The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands Dr. Laura helped hundreds of thousands of readers make good marriages even better and saved many from the brink of divorce. Now, she expands on that bestseller with more insight into the special power women have to transform their husbands, their marriages, and their lives. Through a series of provocative chapters and Q&As, Dr. Laura guides women on how to assess what is valuable and what is vulnerable in their marriages, and encourages them to think about what is really important about being a woman, a wife, and a mother. In addition, readers will find inspirational stories and tips, thought-provoking essays, and space for entries and journals. Dr. Laura sums it up best: “Woman Power is part standard book, part journal, part workbook, and all a positive way to take the basic concepts from The Proper Care and expand and reinforce those ideas to help you transform your life, and that of your family, into the spiritually sound and satisfying experience it can be.” From the Back Cover Woman Power: for the woman who wants to ensure for herself -- and for her man -- the marital happiness and success everyone dreams of! The immediate feedback to Dr. Laura Schlessingers seventh bestseller, The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands, affirmed that Dr. Laura helped hundreds of thousands of readers make good marriages even better and saved many from the brink of divorce. Now, due to overwhelming response from her readers and listeners who wanted to know more about the special power women have to transform their husbands, their marriages, and their lives, Dr. Laura has written Woman Power. Through a series of provocative chapters and Q&As, Dr. Laura guides women on how to assess what is valuable and what is vulnerable in their marriages, and stimulates women to think about what is really important about being a woman, a wife, and a mother. In addition, readers will find inspirational stories and tips, thought-provoking essays, and plenty of room for entries, thoughts, and journals. There are even fascinating Q&As for husbands and wives to do together! About the Author One of the most popular hosts in radio history-with millions of listeners weekly-Dr. Laura Schlessinger has been offering no-nonsense advice infused with a strong sense of personal responsibility for more than 40 years. Her internationally syndicated radio program is now on SiriusXM Triumph Channel 111, and is streamed on the Internet and podcast. Shes a best-selling author of eighteen books, which range from the provocative (New York Times chart topper The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands) to the poignant (childrens book Why Do You Love Me?). Shes on and (with over 1.7 million followers), and her Call of the Day podcast has exceeded one hundred million downloads. She has raised millions for veterans and their families with her boutique, DrLauraDesigns , which benefits the Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation. Dr. Laura holds a Ph.D. in physiology from Columbia Universitys College of Physicians and Surgeons, and received her post-doctoral certification in Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling from the University of Southern California. She was in private practice for 12 years. She has been inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame, received an award from the Office of the Secretary of Defense for her Exceptional Public Service, and was the first woman ever to win the National Association of Broadcasters prestigious Marconi Award for Network/Syndicated Personality...

-Titulo Original : Capture Unraveling The Mystery Of Mental Suffering-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: Why do we think, feel, and act in ways we wished we did not? For decades, New York Times bestselling author Dr. David A Kessler has studied this question with regard to tobacco, food, and drugs. Over the course of these investigations, he identified one underlying mechanism common to a broad range of human suffering. This phenomenon-capture-is the process by which our attention is hijacked and our brains commandeered by forces outside our control. In Capture, Dr. Kessler considers some of the most profound questions we face as human beings: What are the origins of mental afflictions, from everyday unhappiness to addiction and depression-and how are they connected? Where does healing and transcendence fit into this realm of emotional experience? Analyzing an array of insights from psychology, medicine, neuroscience, literature, philosophy, and theology, Dr. Kessler deconstructs centuries of thinking, examining the central role of capture in mental illness and questioning traditional labels that have obscured our understanding of it. With a new basis for understanding the phenomenon of capture, he explores the concept through the emotionally resonant stories of both well-known and un-known people caught in its throes. The closer we can come to fully comprehending the nature of capture, Dr. Kessler argues, the better the chance to alleviate its deleterious effects and successfully change our thoughts and behavior Ultimately, Capture offers insight into how we form thoughts and emotions, manage trauma, and heal. For the first time, we can begin to understand the underpinnings of not only mental illness, but also our everyday worries and anxieties. Capture is an intimate and critical exploration of the most enduring human mystery of all: the mind. Review “In this richly documented, beautifully written, and original work, David Kessler has given us an idea that explains one of the most strange and most powerful processes in the human brain.” -- E. O. Wilson, University Professor Emeritus, Harvard University “This book offers a bold, overarching explanation for many of the great problems of the mind, problems that are often merely named. Dr. Kessler writes persuasively and with unusual clarity. Capture is an engrossing book, impressive in its cultural as well as its scientific reach.” -- Tracy Kidder, New York Times best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Mountains Beyond Mountains and The Soul of a New Machine “Kessler’s cogent argument is that a great deal of the apparently inexplicable behavior is the result of impulses, drives, and obsessions that may share fundamental neural and psychodynamic mechanisms. This carefully researched book is both startling and engaging, and written with brio.” -- Andrew Solomon, National Book Award-winning author of The Noonday Demon “Capture is a breakthrough book. It takes a particular gift to cut across neuroscience, psychiatry, philosophy, and psychology and to ask the fundamental question: Why do we allow our best selves to torpedoed by thoughts and actions that sink us? His answer is profound, life-changing, and life-saving.” -- Abraham Verghese, MD, author of Cutting for Stone “Capture definies a shape of human experience that seems to inform everything from the smallest action to the largest life aim, a unified-field theory of human activity that draws in how we form thoughts, manage trauma, and even try to reconcile will and cause.” -- Chris Ware, author of Building Stories “Kessler writes about the concept of capture, or forces that strongly influence the mind, overriding reason and will. Invoking novelists, Freudian drives, and current neuroscience, Kessler explains how capture motivates, clarifies thoughts, and provides insight. A challenging and rewarding book for both scholars and lay readers.” -- Library Journal “Kessler is an excellent storyteller, and Capture is bursting with human drama drawn from real lives rather than the bla...

-Titulo Original : A Race Like No Other 26.2 Miles Through The Streets Of New York-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: “Gets closer to this marathon than an avenue railbird, and it leaves impressions not fleeting, but lasting.” -Sports IllustratedThe New York City Marathon is considered one of the nation’s-and the worlds-premier sporting events. A reporter for the New York Times, Liz Robbins brings the color, the history, the electricity of this remarkable annual competition alive in A Race Like No Other. Centering her narrative around the fabled 2007 running, Robbins captures all the intensity of the grand event, following the runners-both professional and amateur-along 26.2 grueling miles through the streets of New York, from the starting line at the Verrazano Narrows Bridge to the finish line in Central Park, and offering fascinating portraits of marathon legends like the races charismatic founder, the late Fred Lebow, and nine-time champion Grete Waitz. The Wall Street Journal raves: “Robbins nails the race, painting a broad, impressionistic portrait of what I consider New York’s greatest day.” No other book captures the excitement of the New York City Marathon like A Race Like No Other. Review “Robbins, a sportswriter for The New York Times, has packed her book with scrumptious details…If the written word still has any force, then this book could take on talismanic power, like the medal or the Mylar cape that every finisher receives.” -- New York Times Book Review “Robbins’s absorbing book...finds its stride....A Race Like No Other gets closer to this marathon than an avenue railbird, and it leaves impressions not fleeting, but lasting.” -- Sports Illustrated “I found this fabulous history of the New York City Marathon fascinating because Robbins brings to life the incredible pressures runners are under, as well as explaining their training methods and introducing us to their intense rivalries and friendships….Whether you’re a runner or a couch potato, this will make you at the very least want to watch the marathon, armed with a sense of what each and every mile means to the thousands of competitors who run them.” -- Penthouse “This book brings the race alive, detailing the running of the 2007 Marathon through the stories of the runners themselves...You won’t stop reading ‘til they’ve crossed the finish line.” -- Best Health Magazine “Robbins, who covers sports for the New York Times, offers a vivid, winning portrait of the New York City Marathon, now the largest in the world with nearly 40,000 participants. Taking the 2007 race mile by mile, Robbins profiles each of the principal elite runners, including their training regimens and personal stories; describes each mile’s particular features; limns a large cast of supporting characters, from an aid-station volunteer to a gospel choir that performs inspirational music for the marathoners on the eighth mile; and gives an good overview of how the event is organized. Along the way, Robbins conveys an intimate sense of the physical demands the race places on the body, all the while building suspense-though we know the winners-that’s the equal of a good action movie. A quality piece of journalism from start to finish.”” -- Booklist (starred review) “If you can’t make the trek from Fort Wadsworth to Central Park, and can’t get there to watch it in person, this new account of the world’s biggest marathon is the next best source of inspiration.” -- The Advocate “An engrossing, edifying and moving chronicle of a day in the life of the marathon and its participants.…[Robbins] is a master of her craft: she deftly combines historical fact with creative interpretation, statistics and time-splits with detailed description….A Race Like No Other is a satisfying read for many reasons, not least because Robbins’ writing is fluid and engaging, and she offers an unprecedented inside look at the storied event.” -- BookPage “Whether you have run the New York City Marathon or not, or even any marathon, you will likely be inspired and encouraged by the stories in A...

-Titulo Original : The Myth Of Mental Illness Foundations Of A Theory Of Personal Conduct-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: “The landmark book that argued that psychiatry consistently expands its definition of mental illness to impose its authority over moral and cultural conflict.” - New York Times The 50th anniversary edition of the most influential critique of psychiatry every written, with a new preface on the age of Prozac and Ritalin and the rise of designer drugs, plus two bonus essays. Thomas Szaszs classic book revolutionized thinking about the nature of the psychiatric profession and the moral implications of its practices. By diagnosing unwanted behavior as mental illness, psychiatrists, Szasz argues, absolve individuals of responsibility for their actions and instead blame their alleged illness. He also critiques Freudian psychology as a pseudoscience and warns against the dangerous overreach of psychiatry into all aspects of modern life. Review “The landmark book that argued that psychiatry consistently expands its definition of mental illness to impose its authority over moral and cultural conflict.” -- New York Times “Enormously courageous and highly infomative, and it makes fascinating reading . . . bold and often brilliant.” -- Science “Controversial and influential . . . an iconoclastic work.” -- Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times Book Review “Szasz’s radical views on mental illness and drug addiction have been presented with great consistency and courage . . . I predict that Dr. Szasz’s work and thought will once again come to the fore: he takes the long view.” -- Will Self, The Times (London) “A classic.” -- Salon “A damning critique of mental illness . . . a classic work.” -- Toronto Star “Quite probably, Szasz has done more than any other man to alert the American public to the potential dangers of an excessively psychiatrized society.” -- Atlantic Monthly From the Back Cover 50th Anniversary Edition With a New Preface and Two Bonus Essays The most influential critique of psychiatry ever written, Thomas Szaszs classic book revolutionized thinking about the nature of the psychiatric profession and the moral implications of its practices. By diagnosing unwanted behavior as mental illness, psychiatrists, Szasz argues, absolve individuals of responsibility for their actions and instead blame their alleged illness. He also critiques Freudian psychology as a pseudoscience and warns against the dangerous overreach of psychiatry into all aspects of modern life. About the Author Thomas S. Szasz, M.D., is professor emeritus of psychiatry at the State University of New York in Syracuse, where he has taught since 1956...

-Titulo Original : The Great Mortality An Intimate History Of The Black Death, The Most Devastating Plague Of All Time-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: “Powerful, rich with details, moving, humane, and full of important lessons for an age when weapons of mass destruction are loose among us.” - Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb The Great Plague is one of the most compelling events in human history-even more so now, when the notion of plague has never loomed larger as a contemporary public concern. The plague that devastated Asia and Europe in the 14th century has been of never-ending interest to both scholarly and general readers. Many books on the plague rely on statistics to tell the story: how many people died; how farm output and trade declined. But statistics can’t convey what it was like to sit in Siena or Avignon and hear that a thousand people a day are dying two towns away. Or to have to chose between your own life and your duty to a mortally ill child or spouse. Or to live in a society where the bonds of blood and sentiment and law have lost all meaning, where anyone can murder or rape or plunder anyone else without fear of consequence. In The Great Mortality, author John Kelly lends an air of immediacy and intimacy to his telling of the journey of the plague as it traveled from the steppes of Russia, across Europe, and into England, killing 75 million people-one third of the known population-before it vanished. Review “John Kelly gives the reader a ferocious, pictorial account of the horrific ravages of [the] plague…an emotionally accessible narrative, animated by wrenchingly vivid tableaus and alarming first-hand witness accounts. . . that give the reader an intimate sense of day-to-day life in medieval Europe.” -- Michiko Kakutani, New York Times “Splendidly written. Kelly has written a popular history based on the best scholarship available, and written it very well indeed.” -- Detroit Free Press (4 out of 4 stars) “A fascinating account of the plague that swept Europe and Asia in the 14th century, killing about half the population. It’s a frightening reminder of what could happen today.” -- Nelson DeMille, The Birmingham News “Stunning. . . . Kelly combines distinguished scholarship in the science, medicine and European history [and] meets some of the world’s darkest days as if he were a forensic sleuth who must first re-create the ambience of the victims’ world before tracking down their deaths. He endows The Great Mortality with the sheer immediacy ancient history yields to only a few.” -- Houston Chronicle “John Kelly combines the skills of a medical writer with those of a historian . . . [he] offers an insightful and rather frightening exploration of medieval medicine. Exhaustively researched and relying largely on accounts of those who lived through the Black Death, Kelly’s narrative offers us an intimate exploration of a world falling apart.” -- San Francisco Chronicle “Timely and welcome . . . conveys in excruciating but necessary detail a powerful sense of just how terribly Europe suffered, and just how resilient it was in the face of what seemed to many certain extinction.” -- Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World “It’s almost unethical to write a book on human cataclysm as entertaining as The Great Mortality. Strange that a book about the worst natural disaster in European history should be so full of life. This book may be written in the tradition of Barbara Tuchman but there is a seething vitality here that is Kelly’s alone.” -- Minneapolis Star Tribune “The Black Death is history’s best-known pandemic, but until now its full history has not been written. In The Great Mortality John Kelly gives a human face to the 14th century disaster that claimed 75 million lives, a third of the world’s population.” -- Oakland Tribune “ The Great Mortality skillfully draws on eyewitness accounts to construct a journal of the plague years.” -- New York Times Book Review “A compelling and bone-chilling account.” -- Tampa Tribune From the Inside Flap La mor...

-Titulo Original : Overdosed America The Broken Promise Of American Medicine-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: “Overdosed America reveals the greed and corruption that drive health care costs skyward and now threaten the public health. Before you see a doctor, you should read this book.” -Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation Using the examples of Vioxx, Celebrex, cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, and anti-depressants, Overdosed America shows that at the heart of the current crisis in American medicine lies the commercialization of medical knowledge itself For twenty years, John Abramson, M.D., cared for patients of all ages in a small town north of Boston. But increasingly his role as family doctor was undermined as pressure mounted to use the latest drugs and high-tech solutions for nearly every problem. Drawing on his background in statistics and health policy research, he began to investigate the radical changes that were quietly taking place in American medicine. At the heart of the crisis, he found, lies the changed purpose of medical knowledge-from seeking to optimize health to searching for the greatest profits. The lack of transparency that has become normal in commercially sponsored medical research now taints the scientific evidence published in even our most prestigious medical journals. And unlike the recent scandals in other industries that robbed Americans of money and jobs, this one is undermining our health. Commercial distortion pervades the information that doctors rely upon to guide the prevention and treatment of common health problems, from heart disease to stroke, osteoporosis, diabetes, and osteoarthritis. The good news, as Dr. Abramson explains, is that the real scientific evidence shows that many of the things that you can do to protect and preserve your own health are far more effective than what the drug companies top-selling products can do for you-which is why the drug companies work so hard to keep this information under wraps. In what is sure to be one of the most important and eye-opening books you or your doctor will ever read, John Abramson offers conclusive evidence that American medicine has broken its promise to best improve our health and is squandering more than $500 billion each year in the process. Review “Enlightening.” -- Washington Post Book World “A powerful and coherent case that American medicine has gone badly astray.” -- Publishers Weekly “[A] diagnosis of what ails American health care...well-reasoned and well-documented.” -- Fort Worth Star-Telegram “Abramson’s book will have you rethinking your relationship with your doctor and your health.” -- The Oregonian (Portland) “Before you see a doctor, you should read this book.” -- Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation “A clear and concise explanation of how American medicine has gone astray...a must read for both patients and doctors.” -- Herbert Benson, MD, author of The Relaxation Response and The Breakout Principle “Fulfills the criteria for high quality in health services: the right diagnosis and the right prescription at the right time.” -- Barbara Starfield, MD, MPH, University Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University & Medical Institutions “Acompelling and well-documented analysis... a book every American should read.” -- Elliott Fisher, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School “Essential for all those who want to intelligently reclaim responsibility for their own health.” -- Cheryl Richardson, author of Take Time for Your Life, Life Makeovers and Stand Up for Your Life “The real story about the drugs we take-this book should be read by everyone before they pop another pill.” -- Susan Love, MD, MBA From the Back Cover Using the examples of Vioxx, Celebrex, cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, and anti-depressants, Overdosed America shows that at the heart of the current crisis in American medicine lies the commercialization of medical knowledge itself. Drawing on his background in statistics, epidemiology, and health policy, John Abramson,...

-Titulo Original : Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed The Story Of The Village Of Le Chambon And How Goodness Happened There-Fabricante : Harper Perennial-Descripcion Original: During the most terrible years of World War II, when inhumanity and political insanity held most of the world in their grip and the Nazi domination of Europe seemed irrevocable and unchallenged, a miraculous event took place in a small Protestant town in southern France called Le Chambon. There, quietly, peacefully, and in full view of the Vichy government and a nearby division of the Nazi SS, Le Chambons villagers and their clergy organized to save thousands of Jewish children and adults from certain death. Review The subject makes a deservedly beautiful book. Mr. Hallie is wholly equal to it.--Paul HorganThe thing that makes the story of this village supremely beautiful is simply that it happened. These events took place and therefore demand place in our view of the world. If awareness of history has pushed us to the point of losing faith in ourselves, the case may also be, as professor Hallie says, that redemption lies in remembering. Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed is one of the rarest of books, the kind that can change the way we live.--HarpersIf, as has often been alleged, our old ethics do not work well, the alternatives work worse. But what is stunning about the people of Le Chambon is that the old ethics worked perfectly for them. Its citizens attained in virtue the perfection that in artistic creation or performance we recognize as glamorous--magical, mystifying, romantic, alluring. The Chamonnais set new standards of excellence.--The New YorkerAfter reading this book, one is compelled to think of The Sorrow and the Pity...and the courage and the faith.--New York Times Book Review About the Author Philip Hallie was Griffin Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University, where he taught for thirty-two years. He died in 1994, leaving this manuscript. That it can now be published is do to the devotion of his wife, Doris Ann Hallie, who contributed an afterword. The foreword by John Compton, fellow philosopher and longtime friend of the author, will help the reader to understand this unusual document in the context of Hallies life and thought...