Nonfiction

Using sample dialogues that suggest what to say to children and how to say it, an award-winning guidebook shows parents and teachers how to cooperate to make learning a positive, encouraging experience for every child. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.... More

For years people have tried to persuade the leader of the Cuban Revolution to tell his own life story. Here, finally, Ignacio Ramonet, well-known activist and editor of Le Monde Diplomatique,has succeeded.For the first time, in a series of probing interviews, Fidel Castro describes his life, from th... More

A young child's brain grows at a phenomenal rate in the first years of life, opening a window of opportunity for learning that occurs only once in a lifetime. 125 Brain Games for Toddlers and Twos is a fun-filled collection of ways to lay the groundwork for your child's future. It is packed with eve... More

Whether in business or romance, success is all about how wellyou click with people. And, as top motivational speaker Dave Rick proves in HowTo Click With Everyone Every Time, learning how to build an instant rapportwith just about anyone iseasy. Drawing upon his 16 years of experience coaching tens ... More

The yoga philosophy was first described in the Yoga Sutras, a collection of aphorism offered more than 2000 years ago by the Indian sage, Patanjali.The Sutras were the earliest, and still the most profound and enlightening, study of the human psyche. In them, Patanjali describes the enigma of human ... More

Is your talent strategy a unique competitive advantage? As competition for top talent increases, companies must recognize that decisions about talent and its organization can have a significant strategic impact. "Beyond HR" shows how organizations can uncover distinctive talent contributions, strate... More

"Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem," says pioneering psychologist Nathaniel Branden, "and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence--and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with y... More

The book contains practice passages designed to test your skills of comprehension,vocabulary and reasoning. It will help improve your ability to comprehendinformation and draw conclusions based on your inferences. These tests, based onthe pattern of competitive examinations, comprise both technical ... More

Reading NOTES TO MYSELF is one of those rare experiences that comes only once in a great while. The editor who discovered the book said, When I first read Prather's manuscript it was late at night and I was tired, but by the time I had finished it, I felt rested and alive. Since then I've reread i... More

The essays in this book provide a response to the millions ofwords Noam Chomsky has written in the past forty years. It examines Chomsky'sideas about the "moral equivalence" between the U.S. and the USSRduring the Cold War, his long support for totalitarianism in Southeast Asia, hisnotion ... More

A wry, on-target look at the institutions of love and marriage recalls with humor first crushes, first dates, and first kisses, and explores the foibles of both modern and postmodern love... More

The true story of one woman's struggle to keep her child and win freedom for them both. 'You are here for the rest of your life. Do you understand? You are not leaving Iran. You are here until you die.' Betty Mahmoody and her husband, Dr Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody ('Moody'), came to Iran from the US... More

An invigorating book about the debates raging within China. We all know about he fast pace of change in this country. This book brings us the ideas being fought over in the country itself – from democracy to the idea of a ‘peaceful rise’. It challenges all of our assumptions about... More

‘In her Ordinary Person’s Guide, Roy’s perfect pitch and sharp scalpel are, once again, a wonder and a joy to behold. No less remarkable is the range of material subjected to her sure and easy touch, and the surprising information she reveals at every turn’—Noam ChomskyThis second volume o... More

Man's immutable yearning for freedom and human rights is the pulsating lifeline of The Ruse, a story that mirrors the humanistic philosophy of the Khalsa, enunciated 300 years ago. Set in 18th-century Punjab, against the backdrop of the terminal years of Aurangzeb's reign, it relives Banda Singh Bah... More