An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generations Marie Aymard was an illiterate widow who lived in the provincial town of Angoulême in southwestern France, a place where seemingly nothing ever happened. Yet, in 1764, she made her fleeting mark on the historical record through two documents: a power of attorney in connection with the property of her late husband, a carpenter on the island of Grenada, and a prenuptial contract for her daughter, signed by eighty-three people in Angoulême. Who was Marie Aymard? Who were all these people? And why were they together on a dark afternoon in December 1764? Beginning with these questions, An Infinite History offers a panoramic look at an extended family over five generations. Through ninety-eight connected stories about inquisitive, sociable individuals, ending with Marie Aymard’s great-great granddaughter in 1906, Emma Rothschild unfurls an innovative mo

In this deluxe commemorative edition, LIFE's editors focus onthe publication's achievements more tightly than they ever havebefore: This is truly the best of everything LIFE has accomplished.In these pages are the best war photos ever taken for LIFE; thebest photo essays ever to grace our pages (including the works ofCapa and Parks and Smith); the loveliest pictures from Hollywood(in fact, the best pictures of Marilyn Monroe ever taken by such asHalsmann, Eisenstaedt and her dear friend Milton Greene), the bestsports pictures, the funniest pictures we ever ran. The bestpictures from the space race, and the most significant pictures tothe human race, including Lennart Nilsson's "Life BeforeBirth." This is a premium volume of LIFE, and beyond its 200-plus pages,which include a review of every LIFE cover ever published, thereis, included here, the ultimate premium: The first-ever LIFE issue,with the Margaret Bourke-White photograph of the Fort Peck Dam onthe cover, reprinted in its entirety, at actu

"The fandom driving the magazine is infectious, and the bestpieces are simply essential.... A large part of Anthology's draw,as with Wax Poetics the magazine, is how gorgeous it looks: Manypieces come with lovingly reproduced album covers and 45 labels,arrayed neatly like so much record-collector porn." (The Onion A.V. Club) Wax Poetics Anthology, Volume 1, the first book from the esteemedmusic journal showcasing everyone from jazz and hip-hopheavyweights to soul and funk musicians, gathers articles fromtheir first five issues into an attractive hardbound edition filledwith vintage photos and album art. Including profiles of theWu-Tang Clan's RZA, funk drummers Clyde Stubblefield and John"Jab'O" Starks, Wild Style director Charlie Ahearn, the late jazzbassist and composer Charles Mingus, and many more, this firstinstallment of the Wax Poetics Anthology is a must-have for recordcollectors and music connoisseurs alike.

This original contribution to Indian history, focusing oncontemporary and largely indigenous documents, introduces a set ofconcepts for the analysis of late Mughal rule. More specifically itexamines the origins and development of the Maratha svardjya or'self-rule' within the context of declining Muslim power. It tracesthe expansion of Maratha dominion to a process of fitna, a policyof 'shifting alliances' which was recurrent in the wake of Muslimexpansion throughout its history. The book gives an interestingperspective on Hindu-Muslim relationships in the pre-British periodas well as on the nature of the Indo-Muslim state and its mostimportant successor polity, on its capacity for change anddevelopment in the intermediate sections of society, theland-tenurial system, the monetization of the economy, and on thefiscal system.

The Ross Orogen of the Transantarctic Mountains is the part ofthe orogenic system that formed at the Pacific continental marginof present-day Antarctica. According to a recent hypothesis, thiscontinental margin was created by the rifting and subsequent driftof Laurentia from Gondwana. With an unparalleled breadth and depthof information, this book provides a detailed synthesis of thehistory of the Ross orogen. In doing so, it incorporates classicalstudies with discussions of the most recent and controversialresearch from the international community. The book also includes acomprehensive bibliography and a historical chronology of allexpeditions that have worked on the Ross orogen in theTransantarctic Mountains, from the first sightings by Ross in 1840right up to the present day. This review of the Ross orogen of theTransantarctic Mountains will be valuable to all geologistsinterested in these episodes in the Earth's history, and toresearchers of the geology of Antarctica.

In an age when modern reproductive technology is moving at arapid and alarming rate, Conscious Conception is an alternativeexploration into understanding personal fertility, as well as acomprehensive guide to discovering newfound meaning in oursexuality. Combining knowledge of myth and culture, authorsJeannine Parvati Baker and Frederick Baker offer a step-by-stepmanual of fertility awareness, depth psychology, and psychic birthcontrol and interweave the five elements—Earth, Water, Fire, Air,and Ether—as tools for discovery in the face of reproductivechallenges. Including numerous contributions from experts in thefield, the book investigates a broad range of topics, from thecauses of infertility to the spiritualization of sexuality.Conscious Conception urges us to see all of the possibilities inlife’s plan of continuation and to seek a clearer communion withour own reproductive experience. Over 20,000 copies sold.

An enduring question in the philosophy of science is thequestion of whether a scientific theory deserves more credit forits successful predictions than it does for accommodating data thatwas already known when the theory was developed. In The Paradox ofPredictivism, Eric Barnes argues that the successful prediction ofevidence testifies to the general credibility of the predictor in away that evidence does not when the evidence is used in the processof endorsing the theory. He illustrates his argument with animportant episode from nineteenth-century chemistry, Mendeleev'sPeriodic Law and its successful predictions of the existence ofvarious elements. The consequences of this account of predictivismfor the realist/anti-realist debate are considerable, andstrengthen the status of the 'no miracle' argument for scientificrealism. Barnes's important and original contribution to the debatewill interest a wide range of readers in philosophy of science.

Dr. Keith Block is at the global vanguard of innovative cancercare. As medical director of the Block Center for IntegrativeCancer Treatment in Evanston, Illinois, he has treated thousands ofpatients who have lived long, full lives beyond their originalprognoses. Now he has distilled almost thirty years of experienceinto the first book that gives patients a systematic,research-based plan for developing the physical and emotionalvitality they need to meet the demands of treatment andrecovery.

Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surroundingthe 1893 Chicago World's Fair with such drama that readers may findthemselves checking the book's categorization to be sure that The Devil in the White City is not, in fact, a highlyimaginative novel. Larson tells the stories of two men: Daniel H.Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair's construction, andH.H. Holmes, a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor.Burnham's challenge was immense. In a short period of time, he wasforced to overcome the death of his partner and numerous otherobstacles to construct the famous "White City" around which thefair was built. His efforts to complete the project, and the fair'sincredible success, are skillfully related along with entertainingappearances by such notables as Buffalo Bill Cody, Susan B.Anthony, and Thomas Edison. The activities of the sinister Dr.Holmes, who is believed to be responsible for scores of murdersaround the time of the fair, are equally remarkable. He devised anderect

Beginning with Latin America in the fifteenth century, thisbook is a social history of the experiences of African Muslims andtheir descendants throughout the Americas, including the Caribbean.The record under slavery is examined, as is the post-slavery periodinto the twentieth century. The experiences vary, arguably due tosome extent to the Old World context. Muslim revolts in Brazil arealso discussed, especially in 1835, by way of a nuanced analysis.The second part of the book looks at the emergence of Islam amongthe African-descended in the United States in the twentiethcentury, with successive chapters on Noble Drew Ali, ElijahMuhammad, and Malcolm X, with a view to explaining how orthodoxyarose from varied unorthodox roots.

Do angels make love? Will the souls of ordinary people feelsexual pleasure in the next world? Is the aspiration to spiritualsalvation helped or hindered by sexual experience? In Heaven andthe Flesh Clive Hart and Kay Stevenson explore the opinions ofpoets and painters on such questions, from the high Renaissance tothe birth of romanticism. Hart and Stevenson analyse the work notonly of canonical writers and artists, such as Milton andMichelangelo, but also of lesser-known figures such as John Goreand Richard Tompson, and the sometimes anguished speculations ofphilosophers and theologians. As the evidence of witty pornographicpoems and drawings demonstrates, the relationship between sexualdesire and spiritual ascension was not always treated with fullseriousness. This wide-ranging survey offers sometimes surprisinginsights into material both familiar and unfamiliar.

《当代中国公益慈善研究丛书：慈善组织公信力研究》是一部基于实证调查研究慈善组织公信力的著作。作者石国亮在辨析公信力与信任二者异同的基础上，立足我国慈善组织的客观现实，放眼全球慈善组织的发展趋势，通过全国性抽样调查和深度访谈，多角度分析了慈善组织公信力的现状和影响因素。研究发现，影响慈善组织公信力的因素包括知晓慈善组织数目、慈善的个人效能感、捐后的信息反馈、普遍信任、媒体认知和慈善事件等。作者运用层次分析法，以公众和慈善组织自身两个维度为基准，确立了包括六个一级指标、十八个二级指标和若干个三级指标在内的慈善组织公信力评价体系和评价模型，以期为慈善组织公信力建设提供一种备选方案。

《当代中国公益慈善研究丛书：慈善组织公信力研究》是一部基于实证调查研究慈善组织公信力的著作。作者石国亮在辨析公信力与信任二者异同的基础上，立足我国慈善组织的客观现实，放眼全球慈善组织的发展趋势，通过全国性抽样调查和深度访谈，多角度分析了慈善组织公信力的现状和影响因素。研究发现，影响慈善组织公信力的因素包括知晓慈善组织数目、慈善的个人效能感、捐后的信息反馈、普遍信任、媒体认知和慈善事件等。作者运用层次分析法，以公众和慈善组织自身两个维度为基准，确立了包括六个一级指标、十八个二级指标和若干个三级指标在内的慈善组织公信力评价体系和评价模型，以期为慈善组织公信力建设提供一种备选方案。

A groundbreaking biography of Milton’s formative years that provides a new account of the poet’s political radicalization John Milton (1608–1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both Paradise Lost , the greatest narrative poem in English, and prose defences of the execution of Charles I that influenced the French and American revolutions. Tracing Milton’s literary, intellectual, and political development with unprecedented depth and understanding, Poet of Revolution is an unmatched biographical account of the formation of the mind that would go on to create Paradise Lost ―but would first justify the killing of a king. Biographers of Milton have always struggled to explain how the young poet became a notorious defender of regicide and other radical ideas such as freedom of the press, religious toleration, and republicanism. In this groundbreaking intellectual biography of Milton’s formative years, Nicholas McDowell draws on recent arc

《社会工作技巧手册》的目的是让读者了解社会工作的专业技巧，开展有效的社会工作实践。《社会工作技巧手册》首先从服务对象的心理社会需求、社会工作者应着重考察的问题、服务的人群、提供社会服务的种类等方画打开了社会工作服务的全面视角，深入探讨了专业守则的问题，介绍了社会工作实务中如何在伦理两难的情景下作出决策，并回顾了交谈和倾听等最基本的人际沟通技巧。然后按照社会工作的不同阶段，从接案准备、开始接案、探询问题、预估、签订协议到评估与结案，分别介绍了社会工作实务过程的相关技巧。《社会工作技巧手册》在每章末都配备了相应的练列和自我评估问卷，有助于读者自我检查对各阶段技巧的掌握程度。书中还提供了大量的案例，可以帮助读者更好地了解女如何将专业技巧运用到实务工作中。《社会工作技巧手册》具有很

“I have a bomb here and I would like you to sit by me.” That was the note handed to a stewardess by a mild-manneredpassenger on a Northwest Orient flight in 1971. It was the start ofone of the most astonishing whodunits in the history of Americantrue crime: how one man extorted $200,000 from an airline, thenparachuted into the wilds of the Pacific Northwest and intooblivion. D. B. Cooper’s case has become the stuff of legend andobsessed and cursed his pursuers with everything from bankruptcy tosuicidal despair. Now with Skyjack, journalist Geoffrey Gray delvesinto this unsolved mystery uncovering new leads in the infamouscase. Starting with a tip from a private investigator into a promisingsuspect (a Cooper lookalike, Northwest employee, and trainedparatrooper), Gray is propelled into the murky depths of adecades-old mystery, conducting new interviews and obtaining afirst-ever look at Cooper’s FBI file. Beginning with aheartstopping and unprecedented recreation of the crime itself,f

Reassessing the developing world through the lens of Europe's past Today’s developing nations emerged from the rubble of the Second World War. Only a handful of these countries have subsequently attained a level of prosperity and security comparable to that of the advanced industrial world. The implication is clear: those who study the developing world in order to learn how development can be achieved lack the data to do so. In The Development Dilemma , Robert Bates responds to this challenge by turning to history, focusing on England and France. By the end of the eighteenth century, England stood poised to enter “the great transformation.” France by contrast verged on state failure, and life and property were insecure. Probing the histories of these countries, Bates uncovers a powerful tension between prosperity and security: both may be necessary for development, he argues, but efforts to achieve the one threaten the achievement of the other. A fundamental tension pervades the politic

《南来的挑战》是大众报业集团（大众日报社）社长梁国典从事新闻工作30年来的作品选集，精选了作者撰写的通讯和论文的代表作品。作者从记者干起，全身心投入新闻工作，紧跟时代发展潮流，采写和组织策划了孔繁森、李登海、朱彦夫、王乐义等重大典型人物报道，推出了如莱芜市乡镇简政放权、莱西市村级组织建设、文登农村精神文明建设、荣成市实践“三个代表”的经验以及海尔经验、“南巡第三春的汇报系列述评”等等重大经验性报道，挖掘重大典型、新闻事件、英模人物身上的时代价值，捕捉新闻背后的丰盈内涵，多篇作品获得中国新闻奖。实践证明，这些通讯报道的典型，经住了时间的检验，到现在仍具有典型意义，是做好新时期典型宣传的生动教材。作者走上管理岗位后，注重加强对新闻实践的总结提升，撰写了大量业务论文，内容涉及采编业