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With the strength of their combined professional and personal experience, Rosenfeld, M.D., and Wise tackle one of the most rampant phenomenons of parenting today--the over-scheduled child--and prescribe clear, comforting steps to creating a more positive family experience.

Out of the Ordinary" is a groundbreaking collection of essays by teen and adult children of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender parents. The essays range from humorous to poignant and provide insight into numerous topics on dealing with a parent's sexuality while figuring out one's own. 100 photos.

Three thousand years ago, amidst the tombs and temples of ancient Egypt, they called him Demon. Today he is known as the Count Saint-Germain--a man of great power and greater mystery. For over 15 years, readers and critics have praised Yarbro's novels of Saint-Germain. Now, the secrets of his mysterious past--and distant nights along the shores of the Nile--are revealed.

Renowned nutrition expert Gary Null reveals groundbreaking information that the food we eat may be linked with many common ailments and shows that allergic responses are easily identifiable and treatable. Offering 95 recipes, Null outlines a workable diet regimen that offers tangible results.

No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. From "The Road Not Taken" to "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, " he refined and even defined the sense of what poetry is and what it can do. In this brilliant selection of Frost's classic poems, students and scholars alike will encounter a body of work central to American culture.

Set in the fictional hamlet of Faith, North Carolina, "Salt" weaves together the lives of a young woman's family and friends in a remarkably moving novel of exultation and despair, of grief and ghosts.

A Feast in Exile" draws readers back to the time when the Mongol hordes of Timur (known in the West as Tamerlane) swept across fourteenth-century India and Asia. Delhi's civilized veneer crumbles along with its walls. Foreigners, which the vampire Saint-Germain-here called Sanat Ji Mani-surely is, lose their positions, homes, wealth, and sometimes their lives, if they cannot escape the falling city. Before he can flee Delhi, Sanat Ji Mani must...

Filled with humorous and instructive examples, Lovescript provides the inside read on a successful relationship and is the ultimate handbook for deciphering the deeper meaning behind our scrawls and scribbles. Containing many amusing games and tests, this book ensures that readers will never mind their p's and q's in quite the same way again. Illustrations.

A landmark book, "One Palestine, Complete" explores the tumultuous period before the creation of the state of Israel. This was the time of the British Mandate, when Britain promised both Jews and Arabs that they would inherit the land, and thus set in motion the conflict that haunts the region to this day. Photos.

Warhorse, gadfly, storyteller, naturalist--there is no simple category to contain the vibrant prose voice of Edward Abbey. And this snappy collection of es says displays the author of Desert Solitaire and The Monkey-Wrench Gang at the height of his curmudgeonry.

In this brilliant and lyrical novel of family passions and personal fate, Ethan Mordden weaves a family saga of fiery intensity, as the scornful Witch of Fooley plays chess with the King of Tara to determine the fate of his sons.

A sea kayak battles the freezing Irish waters as the morning sun rises out of the countryside. On the western horizon is the pinnacle of Skellig Michael-700 feet of vertical rock rising out of exploding seas. Somewhere on the isolated island are sixth-century monastic ruins where the light of civilization was kept burning during the Dark Ages by early Christian Irish monks. Puffins surface a few yards from the boat, as hundreds of gannets whee...

With the wit and candor that have made her one of America's most recognizable celebrities, Ferrare brings needed attention to topics of real importance to all women. Now in paperback, her bestselling book talks about nutrition, stress and sexual desire, dealing with the symptoms of menopause and PMS, and how diet, exercise and relaxation rituals work to keep the body in balance.

NYPD details episodes as fresh as the shootings of unarmed men that have triggered mass protests against Mayor Rudy Giuliani. It also tells of forgotten but no less compelling dramas such as the Becker-Rosenthal case, in which a police lieutenant went to the electric chair, and the death of Joe Petrosino, a New York City detective gunned down on the streets of Palermo, Sicily, after his cover was blown by the police commissioner. James Lardn...

From such legendary catastrophes as Breakfast at Tiffany's and Carrie to the failures of Alan Jay Lerner and Rodgers and Hammerstein, this hilarious account of some "lost" theatre history provides stories of nearly 200 musical flops that played from 1950 to 1991. "Best Theatre Book of 1991".--USA Today. 150 photographs.

Ten-year-old Maxine is determined to become a famous inventor so she can take care of her younger brother's heart condition, and she convinces a troubled classmate to help her.

After having assisted in Clinton's 1996 presidential bid, an experienced political consultant and TV commentator promotes the strategy of idealism in this how-to book for office seekers, special interest groups and others who want to effectively promote their causes.

Grady is skateboarding toward a major decisionNo longer able to live with his grandmother, fifteen-year-old Grady Grennan has to find a new address. one option is to move in with his mentally disabled half brother, Louie, in Seattle. But that poses a problem: Louie's adoptive mother, Vickie, and Grady are about as compatible as Mozart and heavy metal.Nevertheless, Grady's testing the waters. He's in Seattle for a concert tribute to his and Lou...

The New Man" shows Thomas Merton at the height of his powers and has as its theme the question of spiritual identity. What must we do to recover possession of our true selves? By way of an answer, Merton discusses how we have become strangers to ourselves by our depence on outward identity and success, while our real need is for a concern with the image of God in ourselves. At a time of retrieval of our religious traditions, Merton's voice is ...

One of the most respected nutritional experts in the world examines the latest research regarding today's most effective memory enhancers, including amino acids, herbs, brain nutrients, and hormones. Line art throughout.