
- The American Party Battle: Election Campaign Pamphlets, 1828-1876, Volume 1, 1828-1854
- Edited and with an introduction by Joel H. Silbey
- The nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets. The nature of political controversy, as well as the substance of politics, is embedded in these party documents which both united and divided Americans. Unlike today's party platforms, these pamphlets explicated real issues and gave insight into the society at large.
- Paperback 1999 / Hardcover 1999

- The American Party Battle: Election Campaign Pamphlets, 1828-1876, Volume 2, 1854-1876
- Joel H. Silbey, Editor
- The nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets. The pamphlets demonstrate how, for this fifty-year period, political parties were surrogates for American demands and values.
- Paperback 1999 / Hardcover 1999

- The Ants
- Bert Hölldobler
- Edward O. Wilson
- This landmark work, the distillation of a lifetime of research by the world's leading myrmecologists, is a thoroughgoing survey of one of the largest and most diverse groups of animals on the planet. Hölldobler and Wilson review in exhaustive detail virtually all topics in the anatomy, physiology, social organization, ecology, and natural history of the ants. In large format, with almost a thousand line drawings, photographs, and painting, it is one of the most visually rich and all-encompassing view of any group of organisms on earth. It will be welcomed both as an introduction to the subject and as an encyclopedia reference for researchers in entomology, ecology, and sociobiology.
- Hardcover 1990

- The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets
- Helen Vendler
- Helen Vendler, widely regarded as our most accomplished interpreter of poetry, here serves as an incomparable guide to some of the best-loved poems in the English language. In detailed commentaries on Shakespeare's 154 sonnets, Vendler reveals previously unperceived imaginative and stylistic features of the poems, pointing out not only new levels of import in particular lines, but also the ways in which the four parts of each sonnet work together to enact emotion and create dynamic effect.
- Mixed 1997 / Paperback 1999

- The Bible As It Was
- James L. Kugel
- This is a guide to the Hebrew Bible unlike any other. Leading us chapter by chapter through its most important stories--from the Creation and the Tree of Knowledge through the Exodus from Egypt and the journey to the Promised Land--James Kugel shows how a group of anonymous ancient interpreters radically transformed the Bible and made it into the book that has come down to us today.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999

- China
- John King Fairbank
- Merle Goldman
- The late John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast ancient civilization. His book remains a masterwork without parallel--a concise and authoritative account of China and its people over four millennia. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman has brought the book up to date with a chapter on events in the post-Mao period and a new preface and epilogue.
- Paperback 1998 / Hardcover 1998

- Complete Poems
- John Keats
- Edited by Jack Stillinger
- Here is the first reliable edition of Keats's complete poems designed expressly for general readers and students. Jack Stillinger provides helpful explanatory notes to the poems which give dates of composition, identify quotations and allusions, gloss names and words not included in the ordinary desk dictionary, and refer the reader to the best critical interpretations of the poems. The new introduction provides central facts about Keats's life and career, describes the themes of his best work, and speculates on the causes of his greatness.
- Hardcover 1982 / Paperback 1991

- A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution
- François Furet, Editor
- Mona Ozouf, Editor
- Arthur Goldhammer, Translator
- Two centuries later, the French Revolution--that extraordinary event that founded modern democracy--continues to give rise to a reevaluation of essential questions. The ambition of this volume is not only to present the reader with the research of a wide range of international scholars on those questions, but also to bring one into the heart of the issues still under lively debate.
- Hardcover 1989

- A Diary from Dixie
- Mary Boykin Chesnut
- Edited by Ben Ames Williams
- Foreword by Edmund Wilson
- One of the most important documents in southern history, this is a day-by-day diary of the Civil War years. It rings with authenticity while evoking the nostalgia, bitterness, and comedy of the Confederacy.
- Hardcover 1980 / Paperback

- Dinosaurs of Australia and New Zealand and Other Animals of the Mesozoic Era
- John A. Long
- In this first comprehensive account of Mesozoic vertebrates from New Zealand and Australia, John Long shows that, while the fossil record from the region can be sparse and fragmentary, finds from such sites as Dinosaur Cove, Coober Pedy, Lightning Ridge, and the fossil trackways at Broome offer new and occasionally startling evidence that has the potential to challenge current views and reshape the debates around some of paleontology's most hotly contested questions.
- Hardcover 1998

- Eyewitness to History
- John Carey, Editor
- Civilization's most momentous events come vibrantly alive in this magnificent collection of over three hundred eyewitness accounts spanning twenty-four turbulent centuries--remarkable recollections of battles, atrocities, disasters, coronations, assassinations, and discoveries that shaped the course of history, all related in vivid detail by ovservers on the scene.
- Hardcover

- Eyewitness to Science
- John Carey
- Science's most momentous discoveries come alive in 100 brilliant firsthand accounts.
- Paperback 1997

- The Greek Pursuit of Knowledge
- Edited by Jacques Brunschwig
- Edited by Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd
- Translated by Catherine Porter
- Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, and political civilization of the West draws and to which, even today, we repeatedly return. In this volume drawn from the reference work Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge, major scholars take up basic topics in philosophy and science, offering an account of the extraordinary explosion of desire for knowledge in the classical Greek world.
- Paperback 2003

- Greek Thought
- Jacques Brunschwig, Editor
- Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd, Editor
- Catherine Porter, Translator
- Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, and political civilization of the West draws and to which, even today, we repeatedly return. In more than sixty essays by an international team of scholars, this volume explores the full breadth and reach of Greek thought--investigating what the Greeks knew as well as what they thought about what they knew, and what they believed, invented, and understood about the conditions and possibilities of knowing.
- Hardcover 2000

- A Guide to Greek Thought
- Edited by Jacques Brunschwig
- Edited by Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd
- Catherine Porter, Translated under the direction of
- The philosophers, historians, and scientists of ancient Greece inaugurated and nourished the tradition of Western thought. This volume, drawn from the reference work Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge, gives fresh insight into the originality of major figures and the legacy of important currents of thought.
- Paperback 2003

- A History of Chemistry
- Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
- Isabelle Stengers
- The authors of this history of chemistry--respected, prolific scholars in history and philosophy of science--have distilled their knowledge into an accessible work, free of jargon. They have written a book deeply enthusiastic about the conceptual, experimental, and technological complexities and challenges with which chemists have grappled over many centuries.
- Hardcover 1996

- A History of Private Life, Volume I, From Pagan Rome to Byzantium
- Series edited by Phillippe Ariès
- Series edited by Georges Duby
- Paul Veyne, Volume editor
- Arthur Goldhammer, Translator
- First of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient world.
- Hardcover 1987 / Paperback 1992

- A History of Private Life, Volume II, Revelations of the Medieval World
- Series edited by Phillippe Ariès
- Series edited by Georges Duby
- Arthur Goldhammer, Translator
- The second volume of A History of Private Life is a treasure trove of rich and colorful detail culled from an astounding variety of sources. This absorbing "secret epic" constructs a vivid picture of peasant and patrician life in the eleventh to fifteenth centuries.
- Hardcover 1988 / Paperback

- A History of Private Life, Volume III, Passions of the Renaissance
- Series edited by Phillippe Ariès
- Series edited by Georges Duby
- Roger Chartier, Volume editor
- Arthur Goldhammer, Translator
- Readers interested in history, and in the development of the modern sensibility, will relish this large-scale yet intimately detailed examination of the blossoming of the ordinary and extraordinary people of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. This third in the popular five-volume series celebrates the emergence of individualism and the manifestations of a burgeoning self-consciousness over three centuries.
- Hardcover 1989 / Paperback

- A History of Private Life, Volume IV, From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War
- Series edited by Phillippe Ariès
- Series edited by Georges Duby
- Michelle Perrot, Volume editor
- Arthur Goldhammer, Translator
- The nineteenth century was the golden age of private life, a time when the tentative self-consciousness of the Renaissance and earlier eras took recognizable form, and the supreme individual, with a political, scientific, and above all existential value, emerged. Volume IV of this award-winning series chronicles this development from the tumult of the French Revolution to the outbreak of World War I--a century and a quarter of rapid, ungovernable change culminating in a conflict that, at a stroke, altered life in the Western world.
- Hardcover 1990 / Paperback

- A History of Private Life, Volume V, Riddles of Identity in Modern Times
- Series edited by Phillippe Ariès
- Series edited by Georges Duby
- Antoine Prost, Volume editor
- Gerard Vincent, Volume editor
- Arthur Goldhammer, Translator
- Hardcover 1991 / Paperback 1998

- A History of Twentieth-Century Russia
- Robert Service
- Russia has had an extraordinary history in the twentieth century. As the first Communist society, the USSR was both an admired model and an object of fear and hatred to the rest of the world. How are we to make sense of this past? A History of Twentieth-Century Russia treats the years from 1917 to 1991 as a single period and analyzes the peculiar mixture of political, economic, and social ingredients that made up the Soviet formula.
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 1999

- A History of Women in the West, Volume I, From Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints
- Georges Duby, Series Editor
- Michelle Perrot, Series Editor
- Pauline Schmitt Pantel, Editor
- Arthur Goldhammer, Translator
- Informed by the work of seventy-five distinguished historians, this five-volume series sets before us an engaging, panoramic chronicle that extends from antiquity to the present day
- Hardcover 1992 / Paperback 1994

- A History of Women in the West, Volume II, Silences of the Middle Ages
- Georges Duby, Series Editor
- Michelle Perrot, Series Editor
- Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Editor
- Arthur Goldhammer, Translator
- Drawing on myriad sources--from the faint traces left by the rocking cradle at the site of an early medieval home to an antique illustration of Eve's fall from grace--this second volume in the celebrated series offers new perspectives on women of the past. Twelve renowned historians from many countries examine the image of women in the masculine mind, their social condition, and their daily experience from the demise of the Roman Empire to the genesis of the Italian Renaissance.
- Hardcover 1992 / Paperback 1998

- A History of Women in the West, Volume III, Renaissance and the Enlightenment Paradoxes
- Series edited by Georges Duby
- Series edited by Michelle Perrot
- Natalie Zemon Davis, Editor
- Arlette Farge, Editor
- Arthur Goldhammer, Translator
- This book draws a richly detailed picture of women in early modern Europe, considering them in the contexts of work, marriage, and family.
- Paperback / Hardcover

- A History of Women in the West, Volume IV, Emerging Feminism from Revolution to World War
- Series edited by Georges Duby
- Series edited by Michelle Perrot
- Genevieve Fraisse, Editor
- Arthur Goldhammer, Translator
- The fourth volume in this world-acclaimed series covers the distance between the French Revolution and World War I. It gives us a vibrant picture of a bourgeois century, dynamic and expansive, in which the role of woman in the home was stressed more and more, even as the economic pressures and opportunities of the industrial revolution drew her out of the house.
- Paperback 1998 / Hardcover

- A History of Young People in the West, Volume I, Ancient and Medieval Rites of Passage
- Giovanni Levi, Editor
- Jean-Claude Schmitt, Editor
- Translated by Camille Naish
- However swiftly it passes, youth is always with us, a perpetual passing phase, an apprenticeship to the myriad ways of the world, subject of panegyrics and diatribes, romances and cautionary tales from antiquity to our day. This two-volume history is the first to present a comprehensive account of what youth has been in the West and what it has meant through the ages. Brought together by Giovanni Levi and Jean-Claude Schmitt, a company of gifted historians and social scientists traces the changing character and status of young people from the gymnasia of ancient Greece to the lycèes of modern France, from the sweatshops of the industrial revolution to the crucibles of Nazi youth.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999

- A History of Young People in the West, Volume II, Stormy Evolution to Modern Times
- Giovanni Levi, Editor
- Jean-Claude Schmitt, Editor
- However swiftly it passes, youth is always with us, a perpetual passing phase, an apprenticeship to the myriad ways of the world, subject of panegyrics and diatribes, romances and cautionary tales from antiquity to our day. This two-volume history is the first to present a comprehensive account of what youth has been in the West and what it has meant through the ages. Brought together by Giovanni Levi and Jean-Claude Schmitt, a company of gifted historians and social scientists traces the changing character and status of young people from the gymnasia of ancient Greece to the lycèes of modern France, from the sweatshops of the industrial revolution to the crucibles of Nazi youth.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999

- A History of the Jewish People
- Hayim Ben-Sasson, Editor
- A History of the Jewish People presents a total vision of Jewish experiences and achievements--religious, political, social, and economic--in both the land of Israel and the diaspora throughout the ages. It has been acclaimed as the most comprehensive and penetrating work yet to have appeared in its field.
- Paperback 1985

- Identification Guide to the Ant Genera of the World
- Barry Bolton
- This book, by the world's leading ant taxonomist, offers a definitive guide for identifying these ubiquitous insects. Barry Bolton provides identification keys to all the living ant subfamilies and genera, presented in alphabetical order and separated by zoogeographical region. Designed for professional and amateur myrmecologists alike, this guide is a accessible as it is comprehensive, including information on the function and use of identification keys, instructions for preparing specimens for examination, and an illustrated glossary of morphological terms. Over 500 scanning electron microscope photographs illustrate the taxonomic keys.
- Hardcover

- The Journal of John Winthrop, 1630-1649, Abridged Edition
- Richard Dunn, Editor
- Laetitia Yaendle, Editor
- The abridged edition of Winthrop's journal, which incorporates about 40 percent of the governor's text, includes a lively introduction and complete annotation.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover 1997

- Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology
- Brian K. Hall, Editor
- Wendy M. Olson, Editor
- Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology is the first comprehensive reference work for this expanding field. Covering more than fifty central terms and concepts in entries written by leading experts, it offers an overview of all that is embraced by this new subdiscipline of biology, providing the core insights and ideas that show how embryonic development relates to life-history evolution, adaptation, and responses to and integration with environmental factors.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2006

- The Letters of Sigmund Freud to Eduard Silberstein, 1871-1881
- Sigmund Freud
- Walter Boehlich, Editor
- A. Pomerans, Translator
- Paperback / Hardcover

- Letters to Kennedy
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- James Goodman, Volume Editor
- A unique document in the history of the Kennedy years, these letters give us a firsthand look at the working relationship between a president and one of his close advisers, John Kenneth Galbraith. Ranging from a pithy commentary on Kennedy's speech accepting the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination to reflections on critical matters of state Letters to Kennedy presents a rare, intimate picture of the lives and minds of a political intellectual and an intellectual politician during a particularly rich moment in American history.
- Hardcover 1998

- The Literary Guide to the Bible
- Robert Alter, Editor
- Frank Kermode, Editor
- Rediscover the incomparable literary richness and strength of a book that all of us live with an many of us live by. An international team of renowned scholars, assembled by two leading literary critics, offers a book-by-book guide through the Old and New Testaments as well as general essays on the Bible as a whole, providing an enticing reintroduction to a work that has shaped our language and thought for thousands of years.
- Hardcover 1987 / Paperback 1990

- London
- Roy Porter
- This is the first modern one-volume history of London from Roman times to the present. An extraordinary city, London grew from a backwater in the Classical age into an important medieval city, a significant Renaissance urban center, and a modern colossus. Not since ancient times has there been such a city--not eternal, but vibrant, living, full of a free people ever evolving. In this transcendent book, Roy Porter touches the pulse of his hometown and makes it our own, capturing London's fortunes, people, and imperial glory with brio and wit.
- Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1998

- Many Thousands Gone
- Ira Berlin
- Ira Berlin, a leading historian of southern and African-American life traces the evolution of black society in America from its creation in the early seventeenth century through the American Revolution. Berlin presents a panoramic view that stretches from the North to the Chesapeake Bay and Carolina lowcountry to the Mississippi Valley, revealing the diverse forms that slavery and freedom assumed before cotton was king.
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000

- The Melody of Theology
- Jaroslav Pelikan
- The Melody of Theology is really two books in one: a dictionary in which a reader can browse through piquant explorations of some of the most interesting topics in Christian theology, and an intellectual autobiography in which Jaroslav Pelikan has used those topics to give an account of the traditions to which he owes the formation of his own mind and spirit. As he says, "An intellectual autobiography in the format of a 'philosophical dictionary' permits the self-indulgence of employing the seeming objectivity of some eighty-two entries, arranged in the impersonal sequence of alphabetical order, to express a completely personal set of prejudices."
- Hardcover 1988 / Paperback 1990

- Nariokotome Homo Erectus Skeleton
- Alan Walker, Editor
- Richard Leakey, Editor
- On the slopes of the Nariokotome sand river in Kenya, sifting through sediments more than a million years old, Kamoya Kimeu uncovered a small piece of a skull. Piece followed piece--facial bones, teeth, vertebrae--and little by little paleontologists put together the most complete early hominid ever discovered, a Homo erectus skeleton christened the Nariokotome boy. This phenomenal find, a milestone in the history of paleoanthropology, is fully documented in this remarkable book. Beautifully illustrated and richly descriptive, The Nariokotome Homo Erectus Skeleton takes us into the field and the laboratory, and into the far reaches of prehistory, to show us what the fossilized remains of a young boy can tell us about our beginnings.
- Hardcover

- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Frederick Douglass
- Benjamin Quarles, Editor
- Frederick Douglass was born into bondage and sold repeatedly in the slave markets of the South. Because he secretly taught himself to read and write, we possess one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. Written over 100 years ago, this classic goes far to explain why American still suffers from the great injustices of the past.
- Paperback 1991

- The Natural History of Alcoholism Revisited
- George E. Vaillant
- In this updated version of his landmark study on alcoholism, George Vaillant returns to the same subjects, but with the perspective gained from fifteen years of further follow-up.
- Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1995

- A New History of French Literature
- Denis Hollier, Editor
- This splendid introduction to French literature from 842 A.D. to the present decade is the most imaginative single-volume guide to the French literary tradition available in English.
- Hardcover 1989 / Paperback 1998

- A New History of German Literature
- David E. Wellbery, Editor-in-chief
- Judith Ryan, General Editor
- Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Editor
- Anton Kaes, Editor
- Joseph Leo Koerner, Editor
- Dorothea E. von Mücke, Editor
- From the earliest magical charms and mythical sagas to the brilliance and desolation of 20th-century fiction, poetry, and film, this illuminating reference book invites readers to experience the full range of German literary culture and to investigate for themselves its disparate and unifying themes.
- Hardcover 2005

- No Author Better Served
- Edited by Maurice Harmon
- Samuel Beckett
- Alan Schneider
- Samuel Beckett claimed he couldn't talk about his work, but he proves remarkably forthcoming in these pages, which document the thirty-year working relationship between the playwright and his principal producer in the United States, Alan Schneider. The 500 letters capture the world of theater as well as the personalities of their authors.
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000

- On the History of Film Style
- David Bordwell
- David Bordwell shows how film scholars have attempted to explain stylistic continuity and change in film, and in the process celebrates a century of cinema. Examining the contributions of both noted and neglected directors, he considers the earliest filmmaking, the accomplishments of the silent era, the development of Hollywood, and the strides taken by European and Asian cinema in recent years.
- Paperback 1998 / Hardcover 1998

- The Other Insect Societies
- With a Foreword by Bert Hölldobler and a Commentary by Edward O. Wilson
- James T. Costa
- Foreword by Bert Hölldobler
- Commentaries by Edward O. Wilson
- In his exploration of insect societies that don't fit the eusocial schema, James T. Costa gives these interesting phenomena their due. He synthesizes the scattered literature about social phenomena across the arthropod phylum: beetles and bugs, caterpillars and cockroaches, mantids and membracids, sawflies and spiders. This wide-ranging tour takes a rich narrative approach that interweaves theory and data analysis with the behavior and ecology of these remarkable groups. This book is likely to inspire a new generation of naturalists to take a closer look.
- Hardcover 2006

- The Ottoman Survey Register of Podolia (ca. 1681)
- Dariusz Kolodziejczyk
- Ottoman survey registers are recognized as unparalleled sources on the demographic, economic, and linguistic characteristics of the regions for which they were made. The register for Kamaniçe is the only surviving survey register of Ukrainian lands. The full text of the defter is given in transcription in the first part, with a facsimile edition given in the second part.
- Hardcover 2004

- Perceptual Neuroscience
- Vernon B. Mountcastle
- This monumental work by one of the world's greatest living neuroscientists does nothing short of creating a new subdiscipline in the field: perceptual neuroscience. Vernon Mountcastle has gathered information from a vast number of sources reaching back through two centuries, from phylogenetic, comparative, and neuroanatomical studies of the neocortex to rhythmicity and synchronization in neocortical networks and inquiries into the binding problem.
- Hardcover 1998

- The Poems of Emily Dickinson
- Edited by R. W. Franklin
- Emily Dickinson
- R. W. Franklin, Editor
- In 1955, the first important attempt was made to collect and publish Dickinson's work, edited by Thomas Johnson for the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. After many years of preparation by Ralph Franklin, the foremost scholar of Dickinson's manuscripts, a new comprehensive edition is available. This three-volume work contains the largest number of her poems ever assembled, arranged chronologically and drawn from a range of archives. The text of each manuscript is rendered individually, including, within the capacity of standard type, Dickinson's spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.
- Hardcover 1998

- The Roman Empire
- Colin Wells
- This sweeping history of the Roman Empire from 44 B.C. to A.D. 235 has three purposes: to describe what was happening in the central administration and in the entourage of the emperor; to indicate how life went on in Italy and the provinces, in the towns, in the countryside, and in the army camps; and to show how these two different worlds impinged on each other. Colin Wells's vivid account is now available in an up-to-date second edition.
- Paperback 1995

- Russia
- Geoffrey Hosking
- The Soviet Union crumbles and Russia rises from the rubble, once again the great nation--a perfect scenario, but for one point: Russia was never a nation. And this, says the eminent historian Geoffrey Hosking, is at the heart of the Russians' dilemma today, as they grapple with the rudiments of nationhood. His book is about the Russia that never was, a three-hundred-year history of empire building at the expense of national identity.
- Paperback 1998

- A Sor Juana Anthology
- Sor Juana
- Alan S. Trueblood, Translator
- Foreword by Octavio Paz
- Hardcover 1988 / Paperback 1990

- Traditions of the Bible
- James L. Kugel
- James Kugel's The Bible As It Was (1997) has been universally praised. Here now is the full scholarly edition, expanding the author's findings into an incomparable reference work. Focusing on two dozen core stories in the Pentateuch, Kugel shows us how the earliest interpreters of the scriptures radically transformed the Bible and made it into the book that has come down to us today. For this full-scale reference work Kugel has added a substantial treasury of sources and passages for each of the twenty-four Bible stories.
- Hardcover 1999

- Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2, 1927-1934
- Walter Benjamin
- Series edited by Michael W. Jennings
- This volume brings together previously untranslated writings on major figures such as Brecht, Valéry and Gide, and on subjects ranging from film, radio, and the novel to memory, kitsch, and the theory of language. We find the manifoldly inquisitive Benjamin musing on the new modes of perception opened tip by techniques of photographic enlargement and cinematic montage, on the life and work of & Goethe at Weimar, on the fascination of old toys and the mysteries of food, and on the allegorical significance of Mickey Mouse.
- Hardcover 1999

- Western Medical Thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
- Mirko D. Grmek, Editor
- Antony Shugaar, Translator
- Coordinated by Bernardino Fantini
- A landmark work, this history of medical thought from antiquity through the Middle Ages reconstructs the slow transformations and sudden changes in theory and practice that marked the birth and early development of Western medicine. Editor Mirko Grmek and his contributors adopt a synthetic, cross-disciplinary approach, with attention to cultural, social, and economic forces as they have affected the historical flow of knowledge and the practice of medicine.
- Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2002

- The Women's Concise Guide to Emotional Well-Being
- Karen J. Carlson
- Stephanie A. Eisenstat
- Terra Ziporyn
- Here, in one volume, is what the experts know about preventing, recognizing, and treating the psychological disturbances and disorders that women experience uniquely. From the complexities of schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder to the delicate practicalities of sexual response, this guide offers all that a woman might want to know about protecting her psychological health.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover 1997

- The Women's Concise Guide to a Healthier Heart
- Karen J. Carlson
- Stephanie A. Eisenstat
- Terra Ziporyn
- This book brings the risks and realities of cardiovascular disease for women into clear focus. It considers questions of cholesterol and diabetes, stress and depression, diet and smoking, as well as diagnostic procedures and surgeries. Helpfully illustrated, this book is clear and comprehensive on every heart problem and related symptom and behavior.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover 1997

- Your Good Health
- William Bennett, Editor
- Stephen Goldfinger, Editor
- Timothy Johnson, Editor
- Hardcover 1987 / Paperback 1989