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Compassionate and comprehensive, Dr. Francis Mondimore's pathbreaking guide has helped thousands of people and their loved ones cope with bipolar disorder. Now in its fourth edition, Bipolar Disorder has been totally revised and reorganized to reflect the dramatic improvements in the treatment of the illness, as well as the numerous ......
How College Governing Boards Fail to Protect Their Students
In the United States, college costs, especially tuition and fees, have increased much more rapidly than either the overall Consumer Price Index or median household income. This cost inflation has effectively closed the doors of higher education to many qualified students and contributed to a staggering $1.5 trillion in student debt. ......
Three Sailors in Barbary and Their Self-Making across the Early American Republic, 1770-1840
From 1784 to 1815, hundreds of American sailors were held as ""white slaves"" in the North African Barbary States. In From Captives to Consuls, Brett Goodin vividly traces the lives of three of these men'Richard O'Brien, James Cathcart, and James Riley'from the Atlantic coast during the American Revolution to North Africa, from ......
In this engaging, fast-paced biography, Louis Galambos follows the career of Dwight D. ""Ike"" Eisenhower, offering new insight into this singular man who guided America toward consensus at home and a peaceful victory in the Cold War.
The longtime editor of the Eisenhower papers, Galambos may know more about this president than ......
Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic
The United States was an overwhelmingly rural society before the Civil War and for some time afterward. There were cities and factories, of course, especially in the northern seaboard states. In 1860, Manhattan's population was nearing a million. Brooklyn, which had been farmland at the time of the American Revolution, was itself home to ......
In the twentieth century, meter became an object of disdain, reimagined as an automated metronome to be transcended by new rhythmic practices of free verse. Yet meter remained in the archives, poems, letters, and pedagogy of modern poets and critics. In Modernism's Metronome, Ben Glaser revisits early twentieth-century poetics to uncover ......
The Suburban Crisis in American Culture, 1975-2001
The explosive growth of American suburbs following World War II promised not only a new place to live but a new way of life, one away from the crime and crowds of the city. Yet, by the 1970s, the expected security of suburban life gave way to a sense of endangerment. Perceived, and sometimes material, threats from burglars, kidnappers, ......
Pamela Painter's short stories have been praised by Margot Livesey for their ""wicked intelligence and ruthless humor."" In Fabrications, which brings together 7 new and 24 selected stories, characters struggle to avoid the chaos in their lives, but'driven by addictions and appetites'often bring on disaster.
Continuity and change, tradition and dynamism shape the lives of Amish women and make their experiences both distinctive and diverse. On the one hand, a principled commitment to living ""old order"" lives, purposely out of step with the cultural mainstream, has provided Amish women with a good deal of constancy. Even in relatively more ......
