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More than five thousand languages are currently spoken around the globe. Learning to speak one of them is virtually effortless for most of us, so why is it commonly so difficult to learn a second language? Unraveling this mystery, two top researchers in the field explain how language acquisition can be an odyssey of self-discovery.

A leading scholar of international relations tells why the rise of virtual economies will make military conquest obsolete.

In this long-awaited volume, David Shapiro extends the same stubbornly intuitive clinical vision that informed his phenomenally successful Neurotic Styles to probe the dynamic psychopathological character

The Way We Think is a dazzling tour of the complexities of human imagination.--George Lakoff, co-author of Philosophy in the Flesh and Where Mathematics Comes From.

In this startling look at evil behaviour, a UCLA sociologist tries to get inside the criminal psyche to understand what it means or feels, signifies, sounds, tastes, or looks like to do any particular crime.

[Woodard] successfully brings to life the fascinating mysteries of marine science [and] outlines strategies that, he contends, must be taken to save our seas.-Publishers Weekly

Is America still Number 1? A leading scholar of international politics and former State Department official takes issue with Paul Kennedy and others and clearly demonstrates that the United States is

Combining the work of prominent U.S. and international commentators on globalization, Globalization and Resistance defines the state, and the future, of globalization's role in world affairs

"The first model of accelerated psychodynamic therapy to make the theoretical why as important as the formula for how, Fosha's original technique for catalyzing change mandates explicit empathy and rad"

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.

"Fans of Douglas Hofstadter, Daniel Bennet, and Richard Dawkins (as well as science buffs and readers of Wired Magazine ) will revel in Aaron Lynch's groundbreaking examination of memetics--the new stud"

The author of The Troubled Crusade and other important books and writings on education brings her own blend of sanity, common sense, and commitment to excellence to the problems of the nation's schools.

It would be hard to imagine a better, or more readable, analysis of United States policy over the last fifty years than Clyde Prestowitz's Rogue Nation. -Brian Urquhart, The New York Review of Books

The love affair that psychoanalysis has had with its own founder has obscured just how different the field is today from what it was a century ago, when Freud was writing. Now Stephen A. Mitchell, a central figure in the modernization of psychoanlalysis, shows how the field is moving beyond the confines of Freudian drive theory to encompass the concerns of contemporary life.

A brilliant state-of-the-art report on how the landmark theory of multiple intelligences is radically changing our understanding of education and human development.

A cultural history showing how America tried to remake Europe in its own image and how Europeans successfully retained their own identity, altering American culture to fit their needs and tastes. It shows how Americans were as attracted to Europe's fashions and goods as Europeans were influenced by America's technology and mass entertainment.

Drawing on The New Republic's searing reportage, this timely guide fills the need for basic information about the war in Bosnia: its origins, its horrors, and its moral challenge to America.

In this unique attempt to address the dilemma in contemporary education, the noted cognitive scientist weaves the lessons garnered from three vantage points: his own traditional education as an American child, his years of research on creativity at Harvard, and what he saw in modern Chinese classrooms,into a program that draws on the best of both modes, traditional and progressive.

Seven leading political philosophers grapple with the key question of contemporary political philosophy: articulating universal human rights that always apply in all cultures.

Based partly on his experiences as a therapist, but more importantly on his insight, Dr. Farber's observations provide us with a glimpse into ourselves that is frequently startling, but in the end always consoling.

Written over 2000 years ago, Sun-tzu's "Art of War" embodies the Eastern tradition of strategy. This translation, written in simple language, is intended to be of equal value to both military historians and students of business strategy.

The dramatic unfolding of how, against seemingly hopeless odds at the end of World War II, the most important international organization in the world, the United Nations, came to be

For training, troubleshooting, and a quick review before every important call, sales professionals will be sold on Close the Deal.

Two MacArthur Prize Fellows argue that to get out of its current economic crisis industry should abandon its attachment to standardized mass production for a system of flexible specialization.

The co-discoverer of the split brain" theory tells how science is recasting the age-old question of nature versus nurture to create a startling new view of human behaviour. Recent discoveries suggest that natural selection affects not only physical characteristics but also mental processes, from learning to substance abuse.

A provocative, compelling, and entertaining look at how the power of images dominates every aspect of our lives.

"This is the first-ever application to group therapy of the popular, replicable, time-limited, evidence-based approach initially developed to treat individual depression. Denise Wilfley adapted it in t"

A multifaceted exploration of the dynamics of posttraumatic body symptoms and a clinically sophisticated presentation of new therapy techniques by an internationally acclaimed roster of trauma experts.

Late-life depression can be addressed. This practice-oriented, research-based casebook draws on the authors' extensive clinical and academic experience to provide an essential resource for practitioners and researchers.