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Encounters with Qi
<p>Here is a sympathetic, yet objective appraisal of the concept of Qi (chee), the vital energy which is the unifying principle of Chinese medicine. Here are Chinese sages from the Yellow Emperor of 2700 B.C. to the very modern Dr. Fang, who remarks, "Acupuncture without Qi is only as effective as one man's sticking needles in another." And here are Chinese people from all walks of l...
1995

Grant Wood's Iowa
<p>Grant Wood, Iowa native, iconic Regionalist American artist, certainly left his mark on his home state. Wood's American Gothic is one of America's most recognizable paintings, his boyhood home is a registered landmark, and collections of his work grace museums far and near. Now you can tour his state with five itineraries that provide a detailed exploration of the historical context for...
2013

Joseph Andrews, and His Friend Mister Abraham Adams
Joseph Andrews, and His Friend Mister Abraham Adams
1958

Last Refuge
<p><em>The Last Refuge</em> charts the rise, fall, and resurrection of al-Qaeda in Yemen over the last thirty years, detailing how a group that the United States once defeated has now become one of the world's most dangerous threats. An expert on Yemen who has spent years on the ground there, Gregory D. Johnsen uses al-Qaeda's Arabic battle notes to reconstruct their world as they take aim...
2014

Midnight Musings of a Family Therapist
A compilation of Carl Whitaker's lectures and un-published essays, taken from his 40 years of practice as a psychiatrist and family therapist. He talks about families, including his own, and the events that shaped the family therapy field, and psychotherapy.
1989

Portrait of a Novel
<p>Henry James (1843 1916) has had many biographers, but Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of the modern novel, combining elements of biography, criticism, and travelogue in re-creating the dramatic backstory of James's masterpiece, Portrait of a Lady (1881). Gorra, an eminent literary critic, shows how this novel the scandalous story of the expatri...
2013

Spike Lee
<p>Spike Lee tells the cinematic story of the preeminent director, whose pioneering films from "Do The Right Thing, Jungle Fever," and "Malcolm X" to "25th Hour," "Bamboozled," and "The Inside Man" helped transform the face of late twentieth-century America. With unprecedented access to the Lee family and new interviews with stars and celebrities i...
2006

Spanish American Revolutions 1808-1826
John Lynch provides a brilliant survey of the men and the movements during these critical years. He views the revolutionary outbreak as the culmination of a long process of alienation from Spain during which Spanish Americans became aware of their own identity, conscious of their own culture, and jealous of their own resources. He traces the forces of independence as they gathered momentum and spr...
1927

Taming American Power
At a time when America's dominance abroad was being tested like never before, Taming American Power provided for the first time a "rigorous critique of current U.S. strategy" (Washington Post Book World) from the vantage point of its fiercest opponents. Stephen M. Walt examines America's place as the world's singular superpower and the strategies that rival states have devised to counter it. Haile...
2006