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This anatomy of secret desire features narrative accounts of sexual fantasies and the authors insightful interpretations. Ultimately, by unmasking the myths and destroying the guilt and ignorance surrounding sexual fantasy, Kahr offers readers a chance to lead richer and less conflicted lives.

Here is revisionist history at its bracing best--conceived on an epic scale and achieving originality and analytical rigor without foregoing the pleasures of narrative."--Christopher Clark

Gitlin looks back at his eventful life, recalling his experience as president of the formidable Students for a Democratic Society in the '60s, contemplating the spirit of activism, and arriving at some principles of action to guide the passion and energy of those wishing to do good.

A lucid and surprisingly accurate introduction to the field of astrobiology and a thoughtful response to the Rare Earth hypothesis."--James R. Kasting, Penn State Astrobiology Research Center

Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world's poorest countries. In "Mad in America, " medical journalist Robert Whitaker argues that modern treatments for the severely mentally ill are just old medicine in new bottles, and that we as a society are deeply deluded about their efficacy. The widespread use of lobotomies in the 1920s and 1930s gave way in the 1950s to electroshock and a wave of new drugs. In...

International bestselling journalist and author Seierstad returns from her most harrowing and dangerous journey yet--this time into the rarely glimpsed, strife-torn region of Chechnya.

Journalist and bestselling author Mooney and scientist Kirshenbaum offer an impassioned polemic about the dangers of America's scientific illiteracy. They go on to propose a broad array of initiatives that could lead to a greater integration of science into the national discourse.

A new approach to a favorite pastime--rating the presidents--breaks presidential performance into easily understandable categories and assesses the best and worst.

From Neville Chamberlains disastrous appeasement of Hitler in Munich to Reagans pivotal encounter with Gorbachev in Geneva, this is the history of the 20th century as told through its most fateful summit meetings.

Eagerly awaited by scientists and academics worldwide, Feynman's famous "Lectures on Physics, " now on CD

From the author of "Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Curiosities" comes a new trove of entrancing numbers and delightful mathematical puzzles for adventurous minds. 200 b&w, graphs, figures, and illustrations.

On a dreary October afternoon, bands of Confederate raiders held up the three banks in St. Albans. With guns drawn, they herded the townspeople out into the common, sending the people of the North into panic. Operating out of a Confederate stronghold in Canada, the raiders were young men, mostly escapees from Union prison camps, who had been recruited to inaugurate a new kind of guerilla war along the Yankees' unprotected border. The raid, tho...

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A renowned psychologist presents the fascinating story behind "Studies on Hysteria, " the groundbreaking book that launched Sigmund Freud's career and which created psychoanalysis.

Drawing on the latest findings from neuroscience, as well as cultural observation and her own unique laboratory research, psychologist Kelly Lambert puts forth a provocative new theory about the cause and treatment of depression

A prize-winning historian presents a sweeping history of the interplay between domestic politics and foreign policy since World War II.

Acclaimed psychotherapist Alice Milller continues her study of the roots and results of child abuse. Drawing on her own experience (and that of her patients), Dr. Miller describes the systematic way in which evidence of child abuse has been ignored, repressed, and ultimately dismissed as untrue by doctors, parents, and even the victims. She advocated getting access to and articulating loong-denied emotions so that healing may take place.

The immensely popular international market leader of self-help titles based on the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Model.

Historian Donald masterfully chronicles the life of Theodore Roosevelt, the first modern chief executive, in this concise biography that recounts the courageous life of one of the greatest leaders this nation has ever known.

The IgNobel Prize-winning author of "How to Dunk a Doughnut" draws on the science of game theory to explain how human beings cooperate in everyday life.