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1886 Professional Criminals of Americaby Thomas ByrnesISBN 1585741132 (1-58574-113-2)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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Anthony Powell: A Lifeby Michael BarberISBN 1585677108 (1-58567-710-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anthony Powell: A Life'Book summary:In this biography of Anthony Powell, publisher, journalist, man-about-town and author of the "Dance to the Music of Time" sequence, Michael Barber takes a close look at the man and the writer. He finds someone whose temperament was often at war with his upbrining. The son of an army officer, educated at Eton and Balliol, Powell chose as his closest friends people like Malcolm Muggeridge and the composer, Constant Lambert, who were not out ot the top drawer or the one below it. And, although happily married for over sixty years to Lady Violet Pakenham, the daughter of an earl, he admitted that he had "always been attracted by girls who looked as they'd slept under a bush for a week". Powell believed that creative writing was, like alchemy, a mysterious, indefinable proces by which experience became art. Michael Barberfocuses on the experience that provided Powell with his raw material. He pays particular attention to the "entre-deux-guerres", that sharply divided cultural interlude when the artists and good-timers with whom Powell identified in the twenties were followed, in the thirties, by the politicians and the prigs. [via]
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The Art of American Indian Cooking: Over 150 Delicious, Authentic & Traditional Dishes from Five North American Regionsby Jean Anderson, Yeffe KimballISBN 1585740101 (1-58574-010-1)
Softcover, Lyons Pr
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The Art of Noir: The Posters and Graphics from the Classic Era of Film Noirby Eddie MullerISBN 1585676039 (1-58567-603-9)
Softcover, Overlook Pr
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Baby, It's Cold Insideby PerelmanISBN 1585741175 (1-58574-117-5)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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The Bbc Reports: On America, Its Allies and Enemies, and the Counterattack on Terrorismby Overlook Press, Jenny Baxter, Malcolm DowningISBN 1585672998 (1-58567-299-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Black Angel: The Life of Arshile Gorkyby Nouritza MatossianISBN 1585672858 (1-58567-285-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Book of Sudokuby Michael MephamISBN 1585677612 (1-58567-761-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Book of the Dieby Luke RhinehartISBN 1585672378 (1-58567-237-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Book of the Die: A Handbook of Dice Livingby Luke RhinehartISBN 158567415X (1-58567-415-X)
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Boudica: The Life of Britain's Legendary Warrior Queenby Vanessa CollingridgeISBN 1585677787 (1-58567-778-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccerby David WinnerISBN 1585672580 (1-58567-258-0)
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"In the hot summer of 1975 Wim van Hanegem was offered the chance to leave his beloved Feyenoord and join the French club Olympique Marseilles. . . He couldn't decide what to do. . . So he turned to his dog: 'We can't decide. It's up to you now. If you want to go to Marseilles, bark or show me.' For several minutes the dog and Van Hanegem stared at each other. The dog didn't move. 'OK' said Wim, 'he doesn't want to go. We're staying."
The cast stretches from anarchists and church painters to rabbis and skinheads, and of course, to Holland's beloved soccer players, whose eccentricities are wryly detailed by David Winner through hilarious anecdotes that call to mind Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch. As idiosyncratic as its subject, quirky and provocative, Brilliant Orange reaches out to the reader from an unsuspected place and never lets go.
"Occasionally a book comes along that you fall in or out of love with on the basis of nothing more than the contents page . . . Brilliant Orange is one of those strangely informative books that will even entertain those who have little interest in either soccer or the Netherlands." (The Economist) [via]More editions of Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer:
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Brontesby Juliet BarkerISBN 1585673633 (1-58567-363-3)
Softcover, Overlook Pr
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The Brontes: A Life in Lettersby Juliet BarkerISBN 1585671525 (1-58567-152-5)
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In The Brontës: A Life in Letters, Juliet Barker has produced a work of impeccable scholarship but also a story as dramatic, and undeniably readable as Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.
"Barker proves herself an impeccable editor of family papers we are all the richer for possessing." (New York Times Book Review)
"Provides a real sense of what those strange, brilliant people were like." (The Atlantic Monthly) [via]More editions of The Brontes: A Life in Letters:
Burying Caesar: The Churchill and Chamberlain Rivalryby Graham StewartISBN 1585671304 (1-58567-130-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Clinical Interview Using Dsm-Iv-Tr: Fundamentalsby Ekkehard Othmer, Sieglinde C. OthmerISBN 1585620513 (1-58562-051-3)
Softcover, Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc
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Code Breaking: A History and Explorationby Rudolph KippenhahnISBN 1585670898 (1-58567-089-8)
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The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics: Sydney 2000by David WallechinskyISBN 1585670464 (1-58567-046-4)
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Confessions of a Secular Jew: A Memoirby Eugene GoodheartISBN 1585671460 (1-58567-146-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism And Its Discontentsby Robert IrwinISBN 158567835X (1-58567-835-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Dark and Bloody Ground: The Hurtgen Forest and the Roer River Dams, 1941-1945by Edward G. MillerISBN 1585442585 (1-58544-258-5)
Softcover, Texas A & M Univ Pr
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The Double-Cross System: The Incredible True Story of How Nazi Spies Were Turned into Double Agentsby J. C. MastermanISBN 1585741302 (1-58574-130-2)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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Told by the man who himself masterminded the entire unbelievable four-and-a-half-year scheme, and filled with dazzling tidbits and extraordinary stories, THE DOUBLE-CROSS SYSTEM is a testimony to Britains skill in the fine art of counterespionage.
Also included is an appendix listing each of the 120 double-cross agents and their tasks, a comprehensive index, and a glossary of military abbreviations. [via]
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Dsm-Iv-Tr Casebook: A Learning Companion to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disordersby Robert L. Spitzer, Miriam Gibbon, Michael B. First, Andrew E. Skodol, Janet B. W. WilliamsISBN 1585620599 (1-58562-059-9)
Softcover, Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc
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Ernest Thompson Seton's Big Book of Country Livingby Ernest Thompson SetonISBN 1585740322 (1-58574-032-2)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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A Few Bloody Noses: The Realities and Mythologies of the American Revolutionby Robert HarveyISBN 1585674141 (1-58567-414-1)
Softcover, Overlook Press, The
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German: Englishby Langenscheidt StaffISBN 1585730505 (1-58573-050-5)
Softcover, Langenscheidt Publishers Incorporated
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The Gondola Philadelphia & the Battle of Lake Champlainby John R. BrattenISBN 1585441473 (1-58544-147-3)
Hardcover, Texas A & M Univ Pr
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The Greatest Thing in the Worldby Henry DrummondISBN 1585425664 (1-58542-566-4)
Hardcover, J P Tarcher
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Greek Fire, Poison Arrows and Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient Worldby Adrienne MayorISBN 158567608X (1-58567-608-X)
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Grizzly Countryby Andy RussellISBN 1585740241 (1-58574-024-1)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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Like Farley Mowat's Never Cry Wolf, Grizzly Country opened a new way of thinking about an oft-misunderstood predator. It is a book for anyone interested in wild America. [via]
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The Healthy House Bookby Gina LazenbyISBN 1585741116 (1-58574-111-6)
Hardcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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Hemingway Vs. Fitzgerald: The Rise and Fall of a Literary Friendshipby Scott DonaldsonISBN 1585671266 (1-58567-126-6)
Softcover, Overlook Pr
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Honky-tonk Paradeby John LahrISBN 1585677868 (1-58567-786-8)
Softcover, Overlook Pr
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In Tasmaniaby Nicholas ShakespeareISBN 1585677205 (1-58567-720-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Inside Anne Frank's House: An Illustrated Journey Through Anne's Worldby Ruud Van Der Rol, Dineke Stam, MENNO METSELAAR, Hans WestraISBN 1585676284 (1-58567-628-4)
Hardcover, Overlook Pr
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Insight Guide Belizeby Hum HennessyISBN 1585730068 (1-58573-006-8)
Softcover, Langenscheidt Pub Inc
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Insight Guide Chinaby Scott RutherfordISBN 1585732893 (1-58573-289-3)
Softcover, Insight Guides
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Insight Guide Germanyby Tony HallidayISBN 1585732923 (1-58573-292-3)
Softcover, Insight Guides
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Insight Guide Italyby Emily HatchwellISBN 1585732931 (1-58573-293-1)
Softcover, Langenscheidt Pub Inc
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Intelligent Person's Guide to Ethicsby Adrian WoolfsonISBN 1585678228 (1-58567-822-8)
Softcover, Putnam Pub Group
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An Intelligent Person's Guide to Judaismby Shmuley BoteachISBN 1585678082 (1-58567-808-2)
Hardcover, Overlook Pr
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It's Not over 'til It's Overby Al SilvermanISBN 1585675059 (1-58567-505-9)
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K2 the Savage Mountainby Robert H. Bates, Charles S. HoustonISBN 1585740136 (1-58574-013-6)
Softcover, Lyons Pr
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The Kite Runnerby Khaled HosseiniISBN 1585473634 (1-58547-363-4)
Hardcover, Center Point Pub
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Narrated by Amir as a 40-year-old novelist living in California, The Kite Runner tells the gripping story of a boyhood friendship destroyed by jealousy, fear, and the kind of ruthless evil that transcends mere politics. Running parallel to this personal narrative of loss and redemption is the story of modern Afghanistan and of Amir's equally guilt-ridden relationship with the war-torn city of his birth. The first Afghan novel to be written in English, The Kite Runner begins in the final days of King Zahir Shah's 40-year reign and traces the country's fall from a secluded oasis to a tank-strewn battlefield controlled by the Russians and then the trigger-happy Taliban. When Amir returns to Kabul to rescue Hassan's orphaned child, the personal and the political get tangled together in a plot that is as suspenseful as it is taut with feeling.
The son of an Afghan diplomat whose family received political asylum in the United States in 1980, Hosseini combines the unflinching realism of a war correspondent with the satisfying emotional pull of master storytellers such as Rohinton Mistry. Like the kite that is its central image, the story line of this mesmerizing first novel occasionally dips and seems almost to dive to the ground. But Hosseini ultimately keeps everything airborne until his heartrending conclusion in an American picnic park. --Lisa Alward [via]
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The Korean War: The West Confronts Communismby Michael HickeyISBN 1585670359 (1-58567-035-9)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Langenscheidt's Pocket Dictionary Spanish: Spanish-English/English-Spanishby Langenscheidt StaffISBN 1585730556 (1-58573-055-6)
Softcover, Langenscheidt Pub Inc
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Langenscheidt's Pocket Japanese Dictionary: Japanese-English/English-Japaneseby Langenscheidt StaffISBN 1585730386 (1-58573-038-6)
Softcover, Langenscheidt Pub Inc
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The Last Laughby PerelmanISBN 1585741523 (1-58574-152-3)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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Liberatorsby Robert HarveyISBN 158567284X (1-58567-284-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Liberators: Latin America's Struggle for Independence 1810-1830by Robert HarveyISBN 1585670723 (1-58567-072-3)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Condorcanqui's revolt is all but forgotten today. But it set off events that continue to reverberate, writes Robert Harvey. Less than half a century later, across Latin America, "Spain's empire had vanished without a trace, as had Portugal's dominion over Brazil." This astoundingly rapid loss of empire was the work of a handful of sometimes flawed but gifted reformers such as Simón Bolivar, José de San Martín, and Bernardo O'Higgins, who followed George Washington's then recent example and organized great armies of liberation against powers they had come to regard as foreign. These leaders paid a great price--all of them, and others Harvey profiles, died violently--for revolts that sometimes replaced one inhumane regime with another, but that, Harvey observes, at least pointed the way toward "the independence and self-respect for which the Liberators fought so hard."
A former correspondent for The Economist, Harvey writes with particular attention to England's relations with Latin America, from failed invasions of Argentina and Nicaragua to more fruitful alliances with progressive movements throughout the hemisphere. By linking developments in Latin America to political movements in North America and Europe, he does much to remove the air of isolation and exceptionalism that surrounds so much historical writing about the region. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Maharajah's Box: An Exotic Tale of Espionage, Intrigue, and Illicit Love in the Days of the Rajby Christy CampbellISBN 1585672939 (1-58567-293-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Marcel Proustby Mary Ann CawsISBN 1585676489 (1-58567-648-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Marilyn Encyclopediaby Adam VictorISBN 1585671886 (1-58567-188-6)
Softcover, Overlook Pr
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Maritime Supremacy & the Opening of the Western Mindby Peter PadfieldISBN 1585670022 (1-58567-002-2)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Maritime Supremacy & the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns That Shaped the Modern Worldby Peter PadfieldISBN 1585671517 (1-58567-151-7)
Softcover, Overlook Pr
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The Modern Inquisition: Seven Prominent Catholics and Their Struggles With the Vaticanby Paul CollinsISBN 158567270X (1-58567-270-X)
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Notes of a Potato Watcherby James Lang, Hubert G. ZandstraISBN 1585441546 (1-58544-154-6)
Softcover, Texas A & M Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Notes of a Potato Watcher'Book summary:The potato has a larger story to tell than its humble status suggests. In this fascinating account of the potato and its role in human historyand the human futureJames Lang tells that story. Combining biology and social science, he describes the origins of cultivated potatoes and how they spread as a staple throughout the world; the many ways to propagate, store, and harvest potatoes; and the crops potential for feeding a hungry planet. Along the way, Lang also muses on art and agriculture, the stars and ancient peoples, and the cycles of time; he reflects on famine and demography, describes village-based, farmer field schools, and looks at the role the potato plays in feeding China.[via]
Native to the New World, the potato was domesticated by Andean farmers, probably in the Lake Titicaca basin, almost as early as grain crops were cultivated in the Near East. Full of essential vitamins and energy-giving starch, the potato has proved a valuable world resource. Curious Spaniards took the potato back to Europe, from whence it spread worldwide. Today, the largest potato producer is China, with India not far behind. To tell the potatos story, Lang has done fieldwork in South America, Asia, and Africa.
From the many potato projects studied, Lang learned a simple, direct lesson: how to address basic problems with practical solutions. Whether the problem is seed production, pest management, genetic improvement, or storage, projects take the diversity imposed by place and by farming traditions as a starting point. In agriculture, one size does not fit all.
Langs grasp of the social and technological issues involved is formidable; his revisionist thoughts on the origins of agriculture are convincing. Notes of a Potato Watcher explains how think globally, act locally can actually be applied. Here is a book that anyone interested in potatoes, development, and small farms will not want to miss, a book that explains why the potato was not the culprit in the Irish famine, a book that shows why solutions must begin at home.More editions of Notes of a Potato Watcher:
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The Olive Seasonby Carol Drinkwater, Kyril BonfiglioliISBN 1585675466 (1-58567-546-6)
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The Olive Season: Amour, A New Life, and Olives, Too...!by Carol DrinkwaterISBN 1585672351 (1-58567-235-1)
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On the Beaten Path: An Appalachian Pilgrimageby Robert Alden RubinISBN 1585740233 (1-58574-023-3)
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P.G. Wodehouse in His Own Wordsby P.G. Wodehouse, Tony Ring, Barry DayISBN 1585673935 (1-58567-393-5)
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Pocket German Dictionary: German-English / English-German In The New German Spellingby LangenscheidtISBN 1585735590 (1-58573-559-0)
Softcover, Langenscheidt Pub Inc
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A Pocket Reference for Psychiatristsby Susan C. Jenkins, Joyce A. Tinsley, Jon A. Van LoonISBN 1585620084 (1-58562-008-4)
Softcover, Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc
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Psychodynamic Psychiatry In Clinical Practiceby Glen O. GabbardISBN 1585620025 (1-58562-002-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Psychodynamic Psychiatry In Clinical Practice'Book summary:"Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, Third Edition" expands and deepens the material in this already classic text. It provides a truly integrative psychodynamic approach that draws on studies from neuroscience and psychopharmacology as well as psychoanalytic theory to provide a synthesis of diagnostic understanding and treatment as a guide to the busy clinician and students in the mental health professions.
The book is divided into three sections. The first section lays the foundation by looking at basic principles and the leading psychoanalytic theories from which psychodynamic psychiatry derives. Applications of psychodynamic thinking to assessment of the patient, pharmacotherapy, group therapy, marital/family therapy, and multiple-treater systems, such as day hospital and inpatient treatment, are also covered. In addition, there is a detailed chapter on individual psychodynamic psychotherapy.
Section 2 consists of a series of seven chapters on the major Axis I psychiatric disorders. In each chapter the author does not limit himself to psychodynamic psychotherapy. Rather, he illustrates how psychodynamic thinking can be applied to every clinical situation regardless of which treatment modality is being used by the clinician. In addition, the diagnostic understanding and treatment approach is guided by an integration of recent data that draws on literature from biological psychiatry, psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis.
The third and final section discusses the major Axis II disorders from a similar perspective. Each of the DSM-IV personality disorders is examined in terms of what is known about the etiology and pathogenesis of the disorder andhow to construct and implement a comprehensive treatment plan that is based on psychodynamic thinking.
Both experienced clinicians and students in the mental health professions will benefit from the author's comprehensive but easily understandable approach to all of the major psychiatric disorders encountered in clinical practice. [via]
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Reveille: First Lady of Texas A & Mby Rusty Burson, Vannessa BursonISBN 1585443484 (1-58544-348-4)
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Revoltosos: Mexico's Rebels in the United States, 1903-1923by W. Dirk RaatISBN 1585440493 (1-58544-049-3)
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Richard's 21st Century Bicycle Bookby Richard BallentineISBN 1585671126 (1-58567-112-6)
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The SAS Guide to Trackingby Bob Carss, Stewart BirchISBN 1585740314 (1-58574-031-4)
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The Shakespeare Miscellanyby David Crystal, Ben CrystalISBN 1585677167 (1-58567-716-7)
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Show and Tell: New Yorker Profilesby John LahrISBN 1585670626 (1-58567-062-6)
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Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic Worldby Hugh PopeISBN 158567804X (1-58567-804-X)
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The Stories of Englishby David CrystalISBN 1585677191 (1-58567-719-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stories of English'Book summary:The English language is now accepted as the global lingua franca of the modern age, spoken or written in by over a quarter of the human race. But how did it evolve? How did a language spoken originally by a few thousand Anglo-Saxons become one used by more than 1,500 million? What developments can be seen as we move from Beowulf to Chaucer to Shakespeare to Dickens and the present day? A host of fascinating questions are answered in The Stories of English ? a groundbreaking history of the language by David Crystal, the world-renowned writer and commentator on English. Many books have been written about English, but they have all focused on a single variety ? the educated, printed language called ?standard? English. David Crystal turns the history of English on its head and instead provides a startlingly original view of where the richness, creativity and diversity of the language truly lies ? in the accents and dialects of nonstandard English users all over the world. Whatever their regional, social or ethnic background, each group has a story worth telling, whether it is in Scotland or Somerset, South Africa or Singapore. Interweaved within this central chronological story are accounts of uses of dialect around the world as well as in literary classics from The Canterbury Tales to The Lord of the Rings. For the first time, regional speech and writing is placed centre stage, giving a sense of the social realities behind the development of English. This significant shift in perspective enables the reader to understand for the first time the importance of everyday, previously marginalized, voices in our language and provides an argument too for the way English should be taught in the future. [via]
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A Testament of Revolutionby Bela G. LiptakISBN 1585441201 (1-58544-120-1)
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To Have and to Hold: An Intimate History of Collectors and Collectingby Philipp BlomISBN 158567561X (1-58567-561-X)
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To the Edge of the Sky: A Story of Love, Betrayal, Suffering, and the Strength of Human Courageby Anhua GaoISBN 1585673625 (1-58567-362-5)
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True Brits: A Tour of the 21st Century in All It's Bog-Snorkeling, Gurning, and Cheese-Rolling Gloryby J. R. DaeschnerISBN 158567656X (1-58567-656-X)
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Turkey Unveiled: A History of Modern Turkeyby Hugh PopeISBN 1585675814 (1-58567-581-4)
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Unknown Lands: The Log Books of the Great Explorersby Lisa Davidson, Francois Bellec, Elizabeth AyreISBN 1585672017 (1-58567-201-7)
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The Voice of Modern Hatred: Tracing the Rise of Neo-Facism in Europeby Nicholas FraserISBN 1585673323 (1-58567-332-3)
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Way of the Warriorby Howard Reid, Michael CroucherISBN 158567513X (1-58567-513-X)
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The Way of the White Cloudsby Lama Govinda, Robert A.F. ThurmanISBN 158567785X (1-58567-785-X)
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The Way of the White Cloudsby Robert A. F. Thurman, Lama Anagarika Govinda, Anagarika Brahmacari GovindaISBN 1585674656 (1-58567-465-6)
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The Words of Cesar Chavezby John C. Hammerback, Richard J. Jensen, Cesar ChavezISBN 1585441708 (1-58544-170-8)
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Yemen: The Unknown Arabiaby Tim MacKintosh-Smith, Martin YeomanISBN 1585671398 (1-58567-139-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Yemen: The Unknown Arabia'Book summary:Englishman Tim Mackintosh-Smith was studying Arabic at Oxford when he visited Yemen, a forgotten country at the heel of the Arabian peninsula, and became obsessed with the place and its language. He's lived there since 1982, and this book--marketed as travel writing but more a blend of personal memoir and national history--is the result. There are certainly travel episodes, such as a trip to the remote island of Susqatra where the Gulf of Aden meets the Indian Ocean. Yet Yemen is more the product of a man gone native than a visitor with an itinerary. Indeed, Mackintosh-Smith offers a forthright defense of the country's lotus-like drug culture, which centers on qat, a leaf that produces a narcotic effect when chewed. "We qat chewers, if we are to believe everything that is said about us, are at best profligates, at worst irretrievable sinners," he writes. Although international health officials have warned against the drug, Mackintosh-Smith assures us this is all "quasi-scientific poppycock." The leaf, he says, helps its users to "think, work, and study." Yemen is surely an exotic land, and one of its charms--fully revealed in Mackintosh-Smith's digressive prose--is the way it has remained quaintly Arabic and seemingly immune to the modern forces transforming its neighbors. Well-received upon its initial publication in the United Kingdom, Yemen may come to be recognized as a small classic. --John J. Miller [via]
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