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An acclaimed historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist offers a clear, comprehensive, and timely account of Wilson's unusual route to the White House, his campaign against corporate interests, and his decline in popularity and health following the rejection by Congress of his League of Nations.

A research scientist presents the Super Eight Food Groups--the foundation of a cancer-busting regimen for today's family.

This compact cookbook addresses the reasons readers bought microwave ovens in the first place: to save time, money, and energy at every meal, every day. Each recipe requires minimal preparation and uses commonly available ingredients. Illustrated.

A touching and resonant story of a man who returns to the small town of West Gull, Ontario, to mend his family's legacy of alcohol and violence, to reconnect with his young daughter, and to reconcile himself with the spirit of his beautiful mother, killed several years earlier in a tragic accident.

Children of divorced parents, Sarah and Emily Grimes grow into two very different women as they struggle to overcome their tarnished family's past. "The effect is at once cruel and sweet, heartbreaking and brutal".--"The Boston Book Review".

With the publication of "Elijah Visible, "Thane Rosenbaum emerged as a fresh and important new voice on the American literary scene, a young writer in the great Jewish storytelling tradition of Isaac Bashevis Singer and Isaac Babel. In this haunting debut, Rosenbaum weaves together nine postmodern tales about Adam Posner, a young man determined to climb the American corporate ladder, who finds himself paralyzed by he legacy of the Holocaust. E...

The author of the bestselling "Husband Hunting Made Easy" takes a lighthearted yet accurate look at understanding and eliminating drama in gay men's lives. Illustrations.

One of the foremost experts on both children and manners offers a clear, contemporary guide to what today's parents should teach their children, when to teach it, and how to do so without turning home into boot camp. The book is divided into age-appropriate sections for easy reference.

Gurian--the author of the bestsellers "The Wonder of Boys" and "The Wonder of Girls"--passes on to readers up-to-the-minute brain research about gender.

Culled from hundreds of interviews with bands, artists, designers, and goths from all walks of life, "The Goth Bible" brings to light the traditions and history of an artistic culture that revels in the Victorian romantic movement.

In June of 1992, when all the polls showed that Bill Clinton didn't have a chance, he took his saxophone onto the Arsenio Hall show, put on dark glasses, and blew "Heartbreak Hotel." Greil Marcus, one of America's most imaginative and insightful popular culture critics, was the first to name this as the moment that turned Clinton's campaign around—, and to make sense of why. "Double Trouble" draws on articles Marcus published from 1992 to...

This is a new, updated and revised edition of a reference work that has proved invaluable as a tool for the student of philosophy, as well as a handbook for the general reader.

A persuasive and practical guide to eliminating possibly dangerous, ethically dubious, and certainly chemically suspect meat from your family's diet. A bestseller in England, "You Don't Need Meat" has been totally updated and Americanized.

A gripping account of the 1918 flu pandemic and the modern-day hunt for this elusive and deadly virusIn 1918, a flu virus more lethal than any that has come along since swept through the world, from the remotest villages in Arctic climates to crowded U.S.cities to the battlefields of Europe, killing forty million people. Yet, despite its devastating toll and the probability that other deadly pandemics await on the horizon, it was relegated to ...

Since earliest history, prophets and gurus have foretold the world's end, but only the nuclear age has enabled a megalomaniac guru with an apocalyptic vision to bring his prophecy to pass. Robert Jay Lifton offers a case in point in this chilling exploration of Aum Shinrikyo, the cult that released sarin nerve gas in the Tokyo subways.With unprecedented access to former Aum members, Lifton has produced a pathbreaking study of the inner life of...

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of "The Paris Review, " this breathtakingly diverse and illuminating anthology has been assembled, where the greatest writers write and speak upon the greatest subjects of our time.

Bolles has scoured the literature of science to build a treasury that is accessible and riveting, and therefore appealing to readers unfamiliar with science, yet erudite enough for the scientifically initiated to enjoy.

This revealing reference contains more than 200 items that blow apart many of the common myths regarding the Vietnam Conflict. The revelations include details of the secret war for the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the use of mind control by the North Vietnamese, and the presence of former Imperial Japanese and Nazi troops in the ranks of the Viet Minh.

Carved from a lifetime of experience that runs the gamut from incarceration to liberation, this "best novel about armed robbery ever written" (James Ellroy) tells the story of former convicts whose adaptation to civilian life under the new California "three strikes" law is done under their own terms.

Yarbro's novels about the mysterious, immortal Saint-Germain, among the very best of vampire literature, have a huge and devoted fan following. "Underliningthis absorbing work is a deep melancholy, reflecting both the vampires lost past and the tortured workings of the Russian soul".--Publishers Weekly.