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 | From the team who brought you Sex and the City: Kiss and Tell comes this must-have companion to the movie millions have been waiting for. This sleek hardcover volume gives reader exclusive entrée... [More information about Sex and the City...] |
 | This one-of-a-kind workbook streamlines the divorce process This completely unique guide helps anyone --even someone enduring a not-so-easy split--create a complete, accessible record of ... [More information about The Divorce Organizer & Planner...] |
 | This unique book provides an integrated view of human facial expressions based on contemporary knowledge about the evolution of signaling across the animal kingdom. Spanning fields that range from... [More information about Human Facial Expression: An Evolutionary View...] |
 | In hospital rooms across the country, doctors, nurses, patients, and their families grapple with questions of life and death. Recently, they have been joined at the bedside by a new group of... [More information about What Would You Do?: Juggling Bioethics and Ethnography...] |
 | This book is the first interdisciplinary treatment of the mythic image of the Decembrists, a group of Russian noble officers who attempted, but failed, to overthrow the tsarist government in 1825. By... [More information about The Decembrist Myth in Russian Culture...] |
 | "Our job is to tell stories we have heard and to bear witness to what we have seen. The science was already there when we started in 2004, but we wanted to emphasize the human dimension, especially... [More information about Climate Refugees...] |
 | "Shaping Things is about created objects and the environment, which is to say, it's about everything," writes Bruce Sterling in this addition to the Mediawork Pamphlet series. He adds, "Seen from... [More information about Shaping Things (Mediaworks Pamphlets)...] |
 | Well-documented and clearly-written, this important volume examines the interaction between scientific and engineering knowldege and the exercise of policy discretion in environmental, health, and... [More information about Knowledge and Discretion in Government Regulation...] |
 | First time in paperback: The definitive study of heavy metal culture that "does for metal what Greil Marcus's Lipstick Traces did for the Sex Pistols" -Chicago Sun-Times Few forms of music elicit... [More information about Heavy Metal: The Music And Its Culture, Revised Edition...] |
 | Looking for guidance in understanding the ways and means of Southern culture? Look no further. Florence King's celebrated field guide to the land below the Mason-Dixon Line is now blissfully back... [More information about Southern Ladies & Gentlemen...] |
 | "An American classic" (Newsweek) that defined a generation. “An astonishing book” (The New York Times Book Review) and an unflinching portrait of Ken Kesey, his Merry Pranksters, and the... [More information about The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test...] |
| Time #1 Nonfiction Book of 2007Entertainment Weekly #1 Nonfiction Book of 2007Finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle AwardSalon Book Awards 2007Amazon Top 100 Editors’ Picks of 2007... [More information about The World Without Us...] |
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