One of the country's leading researchers updates hisrevolutionary approach to solving--and preventing--your children'ssleep problems Here Dr. Marc Weissbluth, a distinguished pediatrician and fatherof four, offers his groundbreaking program to ensure the best sleepfor your child. In Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, he explainswith authority and reassurance his step-by-step regime forinstituting beneficial habits within the framework of your child'snatural sleep cycles. This valuable sourcebook contains brand newresearch that - Pinpoints the way daytime sleep differs from night sleep andwhy both are important to your child - Helps you cope with and stop the crybaby syndrome, nightmares,bedwetting, and more - Analyzes ways to get your baby to fall asleep according to hisinternal clock--naturally - Reveals the common mistakes parents make to get their childrento sleep--including the inclination to rock and feed - Explores the different sleep cycle needs for differentt

One of the world's most respectedsociologists updates his classic work on public views of popularand high culture. Is NYPD Blue a less valid form of artistic expression than aShakespearean drama? Who is to judge and by what standards? In this new edition of Herbert Gans's brilliantly conceived andclearly argued landmark work, he builds on his critique of theuniversality of high cultural standards. While conceding thatpopular and high culture have converged to some extent over thetwenty-five years since he wrote the book, Gans holds that thechoices of typical Ivy League graduates, not to mention Ph.D.s inliterature, are still very different from those of high schoolgraduates, as are the movie houses, television channels, museums,and other cultural institutions they frequent. This new edition benefits greatly from Gans's discussion of the"politicization" of culture over the last quarter-century. PopularCulture and High Culture is a must read for anyone interested inthe vicissitudes of tas

From 1831 to 1837, George Catlin traveled extensively amongthe native peoples of North America—from the Muskogee andMiccosukee Creeks of the Southeast to the Lakota, Mandan, andPawnee of the West, and from the Winnebagos and Menominees of theNorth to the Comanches of eastern Texas. Studying their habits,customs, and modes of life, he made copious notes and numeroussketches of ceremonies, buffalo hunts, symbols, and totems.Catlin’s unprecedented fieldwork culminated in more than fivehundred oil paintings and his now-legendary journals, which, asPeter Matthiessen writes in his introduction, "taken together...constitute the first, last, and only ‘complete’ record of thePlains Indians ever made at the height of their splendid culture,so soon destroyed by traders’ liquor and disease, rapine andbayonets."

Widely acknowledged to be one of Freud's greatest cultural works, when Totem and Taboo was first published in 1913, it caused outrage. Thorough and thought-provoking, Totem and Taboo remains the fullest exploration of Freud's most famous themes. Family, society, religion - they're all put on the couch here. Whatever your feelings about psychoanalysis, Freud's theories have influenced every facet of modern life, from film and literature to medicine and art. If you don't know your incest taboo from your Oedipal complex, and you want to understand more about the culture we're living in, then Totem and Taboo is the book to read.

Published to rave reviews in 1993, Noah's Garden shows us howour landscape style of neat yards and gardens has devastatedsuburban ecology, wiping out entire communities of plants andanimals by stripping bare their habitats and destroying their foodsupplies. When Stein realized what her intensive efforts at makinga traditional garden had done, she set out to "ungarden." Her bookinterweaves an account of her efforts with an explanation of theecology of gardens. Noah's Garden has become the bible of the newenvironmental gardening movement, and the author is one of its mostpopular spokespersons.

"The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature" offers penetrating insights into the lives and opinions of some of the most significant players in the cultural life of the 20th century. Carl Gustav Jung was at the heart of that cultural life, pioneering, along with Freud, a new interpretation of what it meant to be human in the modern age. This volume reveals the full range of Jung's involvement in this process, from his famous analysis of "Psychology and Literature" to his landmark texts on Joyce's "Ulysses" and Picasso's paintings. Jung writes of Freud from the perspective of one who was "permitted a deep glimpse into the mind of this remarkable man," and through the memories and opinions recorded in "The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature", the reader is offered a similar privilege.

Chuck Feeney was born in New Jersey to an Irish-American familystruggling to make their way in the fiercest years of theDepression. In 1997 he called Judith Miller of the "New York Times"to correct a widely reported fact. He was not, as Forbes and othersalleged, one of the 400 richest Americans. He was worth arelatively modest $2 million. He had been a billionaire however,but since 1984 he'd been quietly giving his money away, withoutfanfare or recognition. Now, in 1997, he was determined to wrap uphis philanthropic efforts before he died. But that meant having toget rid of $3.5 billion, because the fund that he had endowed wasone of the richest and most secretive of all the greatphilanthropic trusts: Chuck Feeney was the money and brains behindthe Atlantic Foundation.This authorized but not approved biographyof one of the world's richest and most secretive donors tells thestory of how Chuck Feeney made his millions - buying and selling inpost second world war Europe and Asia - and how he spent them,giving t

"The present book is intended," Einstein wrote in 1916, "as far as possible, to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the theory, but who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics.... In the interest of clearness, it appeared to me inevitable that I should repeat myself frequently, without paying the slightest attention to the elegance of the presentation. I adhered scrupulously to the precept of that brilliant theoretical physicist L. Boltzmann, according to whom matters of elegance ought to be left to the tailor and to the cobbler." But it is elegant, in part because of the 1920 translation, by Robert W. Lawson, a British physicist who had polished his German while a prisoner of war in Austria. The introduction, by science writer Nigel Calder, guides the reader through the work section by section, even giving advice on which sections to skip, or at least not to wor

Over the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe,bringing with them enormous potential for positive change. Buttraditional capitalism cannot solve problems like inequality andpoverty, because it is hampered by a narrow view of human nature inwhich people are one-dimensional beings concerned only with profit.In fact, human beings have many other drives and passions,including the spiritual, the social and the altruistic. Welcome tothe world of social business, where the creative vision of theentrepreneur is applied to today's most serious problems: feedingthe poor, housing the homeless, healing the sick and protecting theplanet."Creating a World Without Poverty" tells the stories of someof the earliest examples of social business, including Yunus' ownGrameen Bank. It reveals the next phase in a hopeful economic andsocial revolution that is already under way - and in the worldwideeffort to eliminate poverty by unleashing the productive energy ofevery human being.