"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.

From one of the nation’s most trusted experts on children’sbedtime and nap time comes a new guide for sleep-training twins sothat everybody (including Mom and Dad) will be rested andhappy! As parents of twins and multiples know, double the fun can bedouble the sleep deprivation. Now, in Healthy Sleep Habits, HappyTwins, beloved pediatrician and renowned sleep authority Dr. MarcWeissbluth combines specialized advice for parents of twins withhis tried-and-true sleep-training methods to show exhausted momsand dads how to get their babies to sleep on their own, stayasleep, and sleep regularly. This essential step-by-step guide toestablishing good sleep patterns reveals how to build healthyhabits in twins’ natural slumber cycles, including · how healthy sleep differs from “junk” sleep, plus a helpfultutorial on the techniques of sleep training for new parents · the five ingredients of healthy sleep, and why daytime sleep isdifferent from nighttime sleep but equally important to

In a world of managed care and rushed appointments, patientsoften need help obtaining peace of mind regarding their healthconcerns. Now, from the most trusted name in medicalpublishing--the source physicians and pharmacists turn to--THEPDR FAMILY GUIDE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MEDICAL CARE gives youguidance and information at your fingertips. With a comprehensive,alphabetical listing of common and unusual ailments that afflictboth children and adults--plus a unique index that matches yoursigns and symptoms to possible conditions--this is a reassuringhome health reference you'll turn to again and again. Inside you'llfind:

Originally published in 1897, this is Durkheim's pioneering attempt to offer a sociological explanation for a phenomenon regarded until then as exclusively psychological and individualistic.

The Rhineland region includes the core regional economy ofwestern Europe, encompassing Belgium, Luxemburg and parts of theNetherlands, France, Switzerland and Germany. Throughout historythere have been tensions between this region's roles as a frontierand as western Europe's economic core. Michael Loriaux argues thatthe European Union arose from efforts to deconstruct this frontier.He traces Rhineland geopolitics back to its first emergence,restoring frontier deconstruction to the forefront of discussionabout the EU. He recounts how place names were manipulated tolegitimate political power and shows how this manipulationgenerated the geopolitics that the EU now tries to undo. Loriauxalso argues that the importance of this issue has significantlyaffected the nature of the EU's development and helps condition afestering legitimation crisis.

Other cities have histories. Los Angeles has legends. Midcentury Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as "the whitespot of America," a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesomeMidwestern values and Hollywood stars, protected by the world’smost famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this publicimage lies a hidden world of "pleasure girls" and crooked cops,ruthless newspaper tycoons, corrupt politicians, and East Coastgangsters on the make. Into this underworld came two men–one L.A.’smost notorious gangster, the other its most famous policechief–each prepared to battle the other for the soul of the city. Former street thug turned featherweight boxer Mickey Cohen leftthe ring for the rackets, first as mobster Benjamin "Bugsy"Siegel’s enforcer, then as his protégé. A fastidious dresser andunrepentant killer, the diminutive Cohen was Hollywood’s favoritegangster–and L.A.’s preeminent underworld boss. Frank Sinatra,Robert Mitchum, and Sammy Davis Jr.

Part diary and part reportage, The Soccer War is aremarkable chronicle of war in the late twentieth century. Between1958 and 1980, working primarily for the Polish Press Agency,Kapuscinski covered twenty-seven revolutions and coups in Africa,Latin America, and the Middle East. Here, with characteristiccogency and emotional immediacy, he recounts the stories behind hisofficial press dispatches—searing firsthand accounts of thefrightening, grotesque, and comically absurd aspects of life duringwar. The Soccer War is a singular work of journalism.

Surprising secrets of success from some of America's womenleaders; all the things a mentor would tell you are revealed inthis mentor-in-a-book. Sheila Wellington, the president ofCatalyst, draws on Catalyst research, contacts, and know-how totell you how to understand the unspoken rules in the real world ofwork today and how to get ahead. Catalyst studies reveal that having a mentor is the crucial key tosuccess at work, and it's the single advantage men usually have,and women usually don't. Even at the best organizations for women,there is still a shortage of mentors. Be Your Own Mentor becomesthat mentor for you, providing through stories and eye-openingadvice a step-by-step guide to advancement. How to master the artof networking, how to create opportunities to gain experience andvisibility, how to manage time, how to negotiate salary, and much,much more is discussed, as you learn from leading women how theygot where they are, the mistakes they feel they've made along theway, and how they created lives of

Drawing on a broad range of research and developmental theoryand focusing on infants during their first year of life, MariaLegerstee asserts that they have an innate sense of people atbirth, which is activated through sympathetic emotions. Shequestions the idea that infants use physical parameters such ascontingencies or motion to distinguish people from objects, andrejects the assumption that infants are mechanical creatures beforethey become psychological ones. She argues persuasively that beforeinfants learn to speak, interactions with others are possiblebecause infants have a primitive pre-linguistic 'theory ofmind'.

Greco-Roman Culture and the Galilee of Jesus, a book-lengthinvestigation of this topic, challenges the conventional scholarlyview that first-century Galilee was thoroughly Hellenised.Examining architecture, in*ions, coins and art from Alexanderthe Great's conquest until the early fourth century CE, Chanceyargues that the extent of Greco-Roman culture in the time of Jesushas often been greatly exaggerated. Antipas's reign in the earlyfirst century was indeed a time of transition, but the moredramatic shifts in Galilee's cultural climate happened in thesecond century, after the arrival of a large Roman garrison. Muchof Galilee's Hellenisation should thus be understood within thecontext of its Romanisation. Any attempt to understand the Galileansetting of Jesus must recognise the significance of the region'shistorical development as well as how Galilee fits into the largercontext of the Roman East.