BASIC BOOKS

(P/B) PERFECTLY REASONABLE DEVIATIONS FROM THE BEATEN TRACK

(P/B) A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SMILE
Every smile is the product of physical processes common to all humans. But since the dawn of civilization, the upward movement of the muscles of the face has carried a bewildering range of meanings. Supreme enlightenment is reflected in the holy smile of the Buddha, yet the Victorians thought of open-mouthed smiling as obscene, and nineteenth-century English and American slang equated "smiling" with drinking whisky.In A Brief History of the Smile, Angus Trumble deftly combines art, poetry, history, and biology into an intriguing portrait o...
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INTO THE MINDS OF BABES
As a mother, Lisa Guernsey wondered about the influence of television on her two young daughters. As a reporter, she resolved to find out. What she first encountered was tired advice, sensationalized research claims, and a rather draconian mandate from the American Academy of Pediatrics: no TV at all before the age of two. But like many parents, she wanted straight answers and realistic advice, so she kept digging: she visited infant-perception labs and child development centers around the country. She interviewed scores of parents, psycho...
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(P/B) PROMISES, PROMISES
Promises, Promises is a delightful new collection of essays which sets out to make and break the links between psychoanalysis and literature. It confirms Adam Phillips as a virtuoso performer able to reach far beyond the borders of psychoanalysis into art, drama, poetry and history. This collection gives us insights into anorexia and cloning, the work of Tom Stoppard and A. E. Housman, the effect of the Blitz on Londoners, Nijinsky's diary and Martin Amis's Night Train, and provides a case history of clutter. In a final essay, the author a...
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(H/B) SHADOW ELITE
It can feel like we’re swimming in a sea of corruption. It’s unclear who exactly is in charge and what role they play. The same influential people seem to reappear time after time in different professional guises, pressing their own agendas in one venue after another. According to award-winning public policy scholar and anthropologist Janine Wedel, these are the powerful "shadow elite," the main players in a vexing new system of power and influence.In this groundbreaking book, Wedel charts how this shadow elite, loyal only to their own, ch...
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(P/B) THE PERVERSION OF KNOWLEDGE

(P/B) FRAMES OF MIND

(P/B) STRUCTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
The "structural method," first set forth in this epoch-making book, changed the very face of social anthropology. This reissue of a classic will reintroduce readers to Levi-Strauss’s understanding of man and society in terms of individuals - kinship, social organization, religion, mythology, and art. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) DRIVE, EGO, OBJECT, AND SELF

(P/B) THE YALOM READER - SELECTIONS FROM THE WORK OF A MASTER

(H/B) DISABILITY AND THE FAMILY LIFE CYCLE
Quality of life has been described as "the degree to which the person enjoys the important possibilities of his or her life" (Woodwill, Renwick, Brown, & Phahael, 1994, p. 67). This book provides an understanding of the psychological issues and practical problems faced by children with disabilities and their families throughout different stages of the life cycle. In this context, we are concerned with issues that affect the quality of life of the family unit as well as individual family members. Too often family members are viewed as "reso...
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(H/B) DESIGN OF FUTURE THINGS

(P/B) THE ESSENTIAL DIFFERENCE

(H/B) SUMMITS

(P/B) COMING OF POST-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY

(P/B) CULTURE OF FEAR: WHY AMERICANS ARE AFRAID OF THE WRONG

(P/B) ABRAHAM
The world’s three largest faiths all find a common root in one man: Abraham. Breaking new ground, David Rosenberg portrays Abraham as a man whose whole life, and therefore his legacy, is informed by the Sumerian culture that produced him. Abraham is a brilliant literary excavation of the ancient cultures from which our modern world has grown. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) THE TAO OF DECEPTION
The history of China is a history of warfare. Wars have caused dynasties to collapse, fractured the thin fa?ade of national unity, and brought decades of alien occupation. But throughout Chinese history, its warfare has been guided by principles different from those that governed Europe. Chinese strategists followed the concept, first articulated by Sun-tzu in The Art of War, of qi (ch'i), or unorthodox, warfare. The concept of qi involves creating tactical imbalances in order to achieve victory against even vastly superior forces. Ralph D...
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(P/B) ATHENS

THE RISE OF THE CREATIVE CLASS (P/B)
(. . .) In ''The Rise of the Creative Class'', Florida chronicles the ongoing sea change in people's choices and attitudes and describes a society in which the creative ethos is increasingly dominant. With updated city rankings and a new preface, this is the national bestseller that swept the country and showed how the very future of our cities depends on a new economic class. (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ)...
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