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A leading anthropologist's twenty-year quest in northern and eastern Africa shows how findings from a variety of fields contribute to a holistic picture of human evolution and provide a context for understanding today's problems.

From the Introduction to "The Psychosomatic Delusion": "We all believe in the healing power of the mind. The idea seems so simple and appealing that we often cannot resist the temptation of blaming those who become ill and, conversely, applauding those who succeed in fighting such life-threatening illnesses as cancer....After many years of work, I have realized that it is not so simple...There is a profound and legitimate need for a different ...

In My Life as a Fan, Wilfrid Sheed shares how he arrived in this country as an English kid worried about his house being bombed and his country being invaded.Despite initial hesitatons when landing in the U.S., Sheed becomes a typical 10-year-old baseball nut and his personal Ellis Islands becomes the ballparks of the 1940s.

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When a shocking act of sabotage results in the death of a Mexican migrant worker at a winery vineyard, New York photojournalist Margaret Barlow finds herself matching wits with a cunning murderer.At a hot-air ballooning rally in northern California, free-lance journalist and amateur sleuth Margaret Barlow accepts a request from Elissa Seldridge to investigate a series of accidents at L'Abbaye Ste. Denise.

Willard Zangwill's study of the innovation he addresses world-class practices of leading companies like General Electric, 3M, Canon, and others, providing a multi-step strategy for cultivating new products and development. Zangwill also explains the philosophy behind concurrent engineering, rapid learning cycles, target pricings, and more—in order to influence and promote the innovative process.

Westerners and Japanese men have a vivid mental image of Japanese women as dependent, deferential, and devoted to their families--anything but ambitious. In fact, the author shows, Japanese women hold equal and sometimes even more powerful positions than men in many spheres.

Richard Miller translates this narration of an eye-witness account of Rome's first-century conquest of Judea. Through the eyes of a Jewish priest, general, Roman captive, and historian, Miereille Hadas-Lebel, comes this narration of the key first-century events in Judeo-Christian culture.

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