This Norton Critical Edition of her best-selling novel is annotated and edited by preeminent Gaskell scholar Alan Shelston. "Contexts" includes contemporary reviews and correspondence related to North and South, along with the full text...

"Moby-Dick" ist eine epische Erzählung des Schriftstellers Herman Melville, die von der obsessiven Jagd des Kapitäns Ahab auf den weißen Wal Moby Dick handelt. Kapitän Ahab ist ein gequälter Seemann, dessen Bein bei einem früheren...

"Classic Fairy Tales: Texts, Criticism" von Maria Tatar ist eine umfassende Sammlung klassischer Märchen aus verschiedenen Kulturen und Epochen. Das Buch enthält nicht nur die Texte der Märchen selbst, sondern auch kritische Analysen und...

In "Why?: Explaining the Holocaust", der renommierte Historiker Peter Hayes untersucht und analysiert die Gründe, Ursachen und Faktoren, die zum Holocaust geführt haben. Er präsentiert eine umfassende Untersuchung und Bewertung von...

With Germany in the World, award-winning historian David Blackbourn radically revises conventional narratives of German history, demonstrating the existence of a distinctly German presence in the world centuries before its...

This approach enables clients to find relief from symptoms stemming from or related to the sexual abuse, to alter feelings associated with memories of trauma so that flashbacks become less intrusive, and to develop a positive, practical,...

In recent years, computers have learned to diagnose diseases, drive cars, write clean prose and win game shows. Advances like these have created unprecedented economic bounty but in their wake median income has stagnated and employment...

In her The New York Times best-selling Between You & Me (ISBN 978 0 393 352146), Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils, punctuation and punctiliousness over three decades in The New Yorker's celebrated copy...

An "endlessly fascinating" (Michael Ruse) work of scientific thought and synthesis, Genesis is Edward O. Wilson's twenty-first-century statement on Darwinian evolution. Asserting that religious creeds and philosophical questions can be...

History is not a prerogative of the human species, Edward O. Wilson declares in Half-Earth. Demonstrating that we blindly ignore the histories of millions of other species, Wilson warns us that a point of no return is imminent. Refusing...

Frank Keil's Developmental Psychology represents his vision of how psychology should be taught and is based on nearly four decades of teaching a lecture course in developmental psychology and conducting developmental research. With a...

The Municipal Art Society of New York recently celebrated its fiftieth year of offering walking tours to the public; in 2007 more than 10,000 people participated. This illustrated guidebook to highlights of architecture, preservation,...