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William R. Baker brings together noted Restorationist (Stone-Campbell) and evangelical scholars for dialogue on their agreements and disagreements.

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George Charlesworth's unique letters to his wife tell of his life and that of the newly activated 17th Airborne Division from April 16, 1943 until he paraded in New York City on January 12, 1946 with the 82nd Airborne Division.

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Here is the first major collection of the teachings of Taizan Maezumi Roshi (1931-1995), one of the first Japanese Zen masters to bring Zen to the West and founding abbot of the Zen Center of Los Angeles and Zen Mountain Center in Idyllwild, California. These short, inspiring readings illuminate Zen practice in simple, eloquent language. Topics include zazen and Zen koans, how to appreciate your life as the life of the Buddha, and the essentia...

Off the coast of Cape Cod lies a small windswept island called Penikese. Alone on the island is a school for juvenile delinquents, the Penikese Island School, where Daniel Robb lived and worked for three years as a teacher. By turns harsh, desolate, and starkly beautiful, the island offers its temporary residents respite from lives filled with abuse, violence, and chaos. But as Robb discovers, peace, solitude, and a structured lifestyle can go...

The sprawling Weiss family--as recalled by Jemima, the middle child in Emma Richler's amazing debut--live an almost idyllic existence. The feeling among the siblings is so palpable that we cannot help but share the acute nostalgia Jem experiences as she emerges from childhood. In a darkly humorous voice she tells of playing elaborate war games with toy Action Man figures, composing a survival book ("Always have some sports news at hand for whe...

Like so many of her young compatriots, Lili Lin lives on the margins of society-she has been jailed for "having a corrupt lifestyle and hooliganism, ” and at 24 she is unemployable because she doesn't have connections and unmarriageable because she isn't a virgin. Estranged from her parents, restless and cynical, she drifts from day to day. Then she meets an American journalist infatuated with China, who gradually opens her eyes to what is hap...

Jeremy Thrane seems to have everything. As the long-time boyfriend of the handsome (but deeply closeted) movie star Ted Masterson, he lives rent-free in a beautiful apartment on the top floor of Ted's Manhattan brownstone and has an easy job that gives him plenty of time to read books and write his novel. When an influential gossip columnist overhears Jeremy talking about Ted, Jeremy's perfect world begins to crumble: in just a few hours Ted a...

Renault's best historical novel yet.... Every detail has solid historical testimony to support it."-"New York Review of Books " After Alexander's death in 323 B.C .his only direct heirs were two unborn sons and a simpleton half-brother. Every long-simmering faction exploded into the vacuum of power. Wives, distant relatives, and generals all vied for the loyalty of the increasingly undisciplined Macedonian army. Most failed and were killed in ...

This "New York Times" bestseller, now in paperback with a new Afterword, is from one of the world's most popular rock artists, who offers an intimate look at her life, loves, and music. Photo insert.

To Libby Mason, Mr. Right has always meant Mr. Rich. A twenty-seven-year-old publicist, she's barely able to afford her fashionable and fabulous lifestyle, and often has to foot the bill for dates with Struggling Writer Nick, a sexy but perpetually strapped-for-cash guy she's dating (no commitments-"really). So when Ed, Britain's wealthiest but stodgiest bachelor, enters the picture, her idea of the fairy-tale romance is turned on its head. Li...

Written in an easy-to-use question-and-answer format, "When Every Moment Counts" provides readers with an accessible, comprehensive guide to dealing with the realistic threat of bioterrorism.

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In this book, the author focuses on the two central conflicts of capitalism, bourgeois versus proletarian and core versus periphery, in an attempt to describe both the cyclical rhythms and the secular transformations of capitalism, conceived as a singular world-system.

Called a "remarkable story” by John Greenleaf Whittier and described by John Keats as "very powerful, ” Wieland, Charles Brockden Brown's disturbing 1798 tale of terror, is a masterpiece involving spontaneous combustion, disembodied voices, religious mania, and a gruesome murder based on a real-life incident. This Modern Library Paperback Classic includes Wieland's fragmentary sequel, Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist, as well as several other i...

This important study offers a non-technical exposition of the ethical theory underlying Hegel's philosophy of society, politics, and history.

Extends and evaluates the Machiavellian Intelligence Hypothesis for intelligence's social basis.

The book covers a wide range of topics: portfolio management of equities and fixed-income investments, the pricing of complex insurance, mortgage and other asset-backed products, and models for risk-management and diversification. Standard models are presented and analysed, and the problem of portfolio management under uncertainty is examined. Key issues are analysed, mathematical models proposed, and current practices are reviewed and evaluated.