Jump Start: Japan Comes to the Heartland

Offers an account of Japan's triumph in the automobile manufacturing heartland of America, detailing how Japanese business practices have been adapted to work successfully in the United States

Gelsanliter, David

Business & Money

Hill & Wang Pub

A renowned science writer reveals how the insights of Gregor Mendel, a mid-nineteenth-century Moravian friar whose experiments with peas created the foundation for modern genetics, are the key to understanding genetics today, and discusses the ethical implications of current genetic technologies, from cloning to the Human Genome Project. 10,000 first printing.

The Impact of the Gene: From Mendel's Peas to Designer Babies

Science & Math

Tudge, Colin

Evolution

An exploration of the history of "indecency" laws and other restrictions aimed at protecting youth, ranges from Plato's argument for rigid censorship, through Victorian laws designed to repress libidinous thoughts, to contemporary battles over sex education in public schools and violence in the media.

Not in Front of the Children: Indecency, Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth

History

Heins, Marjorie

Americas

Flesh And Blood

Following the Stassos family through four generations of ambition, love, violence, and change, a powerful narrative focuses on the turbulent lives of the Stassos children. By the author of A Home at the End of the World. 75,000 first printing. Tour.

Flesh and Blood

Literature & Fiction

CUNNINGHAM, Michael

United States

Describes the events leading to the missile crisis, analyzes American actions, and shares the opposing viewpoints of American and Russian experts

On the Brink: Americans and Soviets Reexamine the Cuban Missile Crisis

Bundy, McGeorge

Blight, James G.

Welch, David A.

An Italian critic of culture recounts both his personal adventures and ancient lore and literature surrounding the Danube River and Middle European civilization, including references to Kafka, Freud, Marcus Aurelius, and Ovid

Poems, 1963-1983

WILLIAMS, C.K.

A collection of jokes and riddles on a variety of topics.

Jokes for Children

Kohl, Marguerite

Young, Frederica

Children's Books

Of Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions

On the psychoanalysis of romantic and sexual emotions.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Reik, Theodor

Psychology & Counseling

This personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume--and the last book Barthes published--finds the author applying his influential perceptiveness and associative insight to the subject of photography. To this end, several black-and-white photos (by the likes of Avedon, Clifford, Hine, Mapplethorpe, Nadar, Van Der Zee, and so forth) are reprinted throughout the text.

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

BARTHES, ROLAND

This anthology first appeared in 1966 and contains 31 stories by and about black Americans.

American Negro Short Stories

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