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Joe DiMaggio
The Long Vigil
This riveting study of Joe DiMaggio offers a more sympathetic look at his life beyond the baseball field, a reversal of how the legendary sports icon has been portrayed in recent years As the New York...
Winning Strategies for Successful Aging
A comprehensive personal guide, filled with reliable advice on every important aspect of growing older For anyone who is approaching a 65th birthday with trepidation, this valuable book offers heartening...
Knowledge in the Making
Academic Freedom and Free Speech in America's Schools and Universities
A compelling must-read for parents, administrators, faculty, and anyone with an interest in what happens when academics and politics intersect How free are students and teachers to express unpopular...
Fighting Cancer with Knowledge and Hope
A Guide for Patients, Families, and Health Care Providers
Second Edition
A leading oncologist demystifies cancer with accurate, accessible, and honest information Anyone who is diagnosed with cancer receives a frightening blow, and in many cases the diagnosis is accompanied by a...
Just Words
Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America
In an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show in 1980, the critic Mary McCarthy glibly remarked that every word author Lillian Hellman wrote was a lie, "including 'and' and 'the.'" Hellman immediately filed a libel suit,...
The Peacekeeping Economy
Using Economic Relationships to Build a More Peaceful, Prosperous, and Secure World
The idea that military strength is virtually synonymous with security is deeply entrenched and widely held. But while the threat or use of military force may sometimes be necessary, it cannot keep us as safe as we would be by...
Realeconomik
The Hidden Cause of the Great Recession (And How to Avert the Next One)
A growing complacency that stability has been restored in the wake of recent economic turmoil is not just wishful thinking, it is dangerous thinking This book directly confronts uncomfortable questions...
Promiscuous
"Portnoy's Complaint" and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness
A spirited biography of Philip Roth's notorious novel, from the outrage it sparked to its impact on Roth to its legacy some forty years later The publication of Portnoy’s Complaint in 1969...
Renegade
Henry Miller and the Making of "Tropic of Cancer"
The untold story of Henry Miller’s explosive 1934 novel, banned in America for more than a quarter century Though branded as pornography for its graphic language and explicit sexuality, Henry Miller’s
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