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Parenting Stress
All parents experience stress as they attempt to meet the challenges of caring for their children. This comprehensive book examines the causes and consequences of parenting distress, drawing on a wide array of findings in...
John Evelyn
Living for Ingenuity
This new biography of John Evelyn, diarist, scholar, and intellectual virtuoso (1620-1706), is the first account to make full use of his huge unpublished archive, deposited at the British Library in 1995. This crucial...
Mussolini's Shadow
The Double Life of Count Galeazzo Ciano
Married to Benito Mussolini’s favorite daughter Edda, young Count Galeazzo Ciano (1903–1944) became il Duce’s confidant, emissary, and heir apparent in the years preceding World War II. Appointed foreign minister...
The Case for Greatness
Honorable Ambition and Its Critics
A searching defense of great political leadership?The Case for Greatness is a spirited look at political ambition, good and bad, with particular attention to honorable ambition. Robert...
Angels and Monsters
Male and Female Sopranos in the Story of Opera, 1600-1900
A riveting history of the early male and female sopranos for whom many of the greatest roles in opera were written During its first two centuries, opera was dominated by sopranos. There were male...
Blacks in the White Establishment?
A Study of Race and Class in America
“The next thing the girl said was, ‘I’ve never been near anyone black except for my maid.’ And I thought, I’m going to have problems here.”—Bobette Reed Kahn What were the feelings and experiences...
The Great Pox
The French Disease in Renaissance Europe
One hundred and fifty years after the Black Death killed a third of the population of Western Europe, a new plague swept across the continent. The Great Pox—commonly known as the French disease—brought a different kind of...
The Political Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott
Svengali's Web
The Alien Enchanter in Modern Culture
Svengali, the malevolent hypnotist in a sensationally successful novel published by George du Maurier in 1894, became such a well-known character in the culture of the period that his name entered the dictionary as one...
The Tractate "Mourning" (Semahot)
Regulations Relating to Death, Burial, and Mourning
Generally referred to by the euphemistic title Sema-Hot ("Rejoicings"), this tractate, dating probably from the third century, is the oldest known Rabbinic text that sets forth the laws governing death, burial, and...