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Darrell Huff runs the gamut of every popularly used type of statistic, probes such things as the sample study, the tabulation method, the interview technique, or the way the results are derived from the figures, and points up the countless number ...

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A handsomely bound omnibus edition of Patrick O'Brian's seafaring classics, including three chapters of the unfinished twenty-first novel. These five volumes, beautifully produced and boxed, contain over 7,000 pages of what has often been describe...

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This work documents one of the largest clinical trials which found that treating depression by helping to activate people is as effective as helping them to change their thinking.

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Abbott helps social science students discover what questions to ask. This exciting book is not about habits and the mechanics of doing social science research, but about habits of thinking that enable students to use those mechanics in new ways, b...

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"All readers will profit by the virtuosity with which the author has carried out his pioneering attempt to erect the structure of economic hisotry on the basis of a theory of development." Carter Goodrich, American Historical Review

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Transcriptions of Sullivan's lectures dealing with the causes and treatment of depression, paranoia, schizophrenia and other mental disorders.

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After surviving a great typhoon in the South China Sea, Captain Jack Aubrey, ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, and the crew of the HMS Diane attempt to rebuild their ship to leave the small desert island where they have been shipwrecked.

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The latest mystery from the author of Devil in a Blue Dress featuring a tough black detective in L.A.'s Watts section. The time is 1956and no one i n official L.A. is much bothered as a serial killer proceeds to murder three black bar girls. But w...

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At the outset of this adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue a heavy American privateer through the Great South Sea. The strange color of the ocean water reminds Stephen of Homer's famous description, bu...

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This assemblage of twenty-nine of the eeriest stories in English features such talents as Henry James, Shirley Jackson, Elizabeth Bowen, A. S. Byatt, and Elizabeth Taylor, accompanied by an introduction that reevaluates the genre.

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First published in 1986, revised and expanded in 1995, this book has been called "the definitive history" of the Titanic.

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"Few, very few books have made my heart thud with excitement. H.M.S. Surprise managed it." Helen Lucy Burke, Irish Press

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"The relationship [between Aubrey and Maturin]...is about the best thing afloat....For Conradian power of description and sheer excitement there is nothing in naval fiction to beat the stern chase as the outgunned Leopard staggers through mou...

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"A marvellously full-flavoured, engrossing book, which towers over its current rivals in the genre like a three-decker over a ship's longboat." Times Literary Supplement

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Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans now of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But a sudden turn of events takes them off on a hazardous mission to the Greek isles, where they are soon involve...

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"The finest writer of sea-stories in the English language." J. de Courcy Ireland

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"An overwhelming, outstanding novel...!" Irish Times

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Patrick O'Brian's first novel about the sea, The Golden Ocean, took inspiration from Commodore Anson's fateful circumnavigation of the globe in 1740. In The Unknown Shore, O'Brian returns to this rich source and mines it brilliantly for another, q...

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From the MASK NOIR series, a crime novel set in 1964 in which high school janitor Easy Rawlins is seduced by a teacher with a dog and a story about a husband who has gone mad, but by evening, the teacher has gone missing. From the author of DEVIL ...

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These portraits about America's places in the country's diverse landscape range from the humming-bird of Montana to the neon lights of Times Square. They share a common desire: to explore both the sensual and the spiritual connections we have to p...

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Life ashore may once again be the undoing of Jack Aubrey in Patrick O'Brian's long-awaited sequel to his bestseller The Commodore. Aubrey, now a considerable though impoverished landowner, has dimmed his prospects at the admiralty by his erratic v...

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A national bestseller over 7 million copies sold. "[A] social document of rare importance." The New Republic.

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Explores the psychological and physiological effects of eating disorders, and discusses family therapy, nutritional counseling, preventive programs, and the negative aspects of drug therapy.

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"The voice [in these stories] is clear and intelligent and brave. Mr. Klima has climbed the mast." New York Times

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"Engaging and often uproariously funny. . . . For animal buffs, this one is not to be missed." Kirkus Reviews

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"A lyrical, candid, sensitive spirit pervades this chronicle, which ends with Sarton well again, rejoicing in the present and putting the past behind her".--Publishers Weekly.

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An engrossing account of the mutual nonaggression treaty signed by Hitler and Stalin in 1939, and the historical events it produced. Here readers will be able to view the dramatic story of the circumstances behind the signing, and twenty-two month...

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One of the most gifted and creative psychoanalysts of his generation, D. W. Winnicott made lasting contributions to our understanding of the minds of children.

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