"Bag the Elephant" is all about how smart businesspeople can woo and keep those all-important elephants - the big, make-or-break customers. Like its companion, the "New York Times" bestseller "Be the Elephant", it is filled with dynamic advice and real-life examples, delivered in an energetic, strai[...]

Frank Sinatra was the best-known entertainer of the twentieth century--infinitely charismatic, lionized and notorious in equal measure. But despite his mammoth fame, Sinatra the man has remained an enigma. Now James Kaplan brings deeper insight than ever before to the complex psyche and turbulent li[...]

The best-selling general psychiatry text since 1972, Kaplan and Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry is now in its thoroughly updated Tenth Edition. This complete, concise overview of the entire field of psychiatry is a staple board review text for psychiatry residents and is popular with a broad range o[...]

This book presents updated clinical material on child and adolescent psychiatry from the best-selling "Kaplan and Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry, Tenth Edition". The coverage in this book includes clinically relevant information on: normal and abnormal development; examination; neuroimaging; learni[...]

The author of The Dressing Station offers a powerful memoir of the author's experiences in a combat-zone hospital in Iraq, sharing stories of his father's experiences as a surgeon on the battlefield in World War II. Reprint.[...]

Propounding his "small ball theory" of sports literature, George Plimpton proposed that "the smaller the ball, the more formidable the literature." Of course he had the relatively small baseball in mind, because its literature is formidable - vast and varied, instructive, often wildly entertaining, [...]

This book examines how interest groups in Turkey, including religious nationalists, neoliberal industrialists, and the military, promote and develop their particular worldviews through education and in school curricula. The aim is to explain how these competing groups define schoolchildren's educat[...]

The Mahler Album is the definitive collection of all known photographs of the legendary composer and conductor Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). Mahler broke new ground in both composition and conducting, and today his music is more popular than ever. Selected and edited by Gilbert Kaplan, a renowned autho[...]

From Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world's Top 100 Global Thinkers by "Foreign Policy" magazine, comes a penetrating look at the volatile region that will dominate the future of geopolitical conflict.
Over the last decade, the center of world power has been quietly shifting from Europe to [...]

It may be said that every trauma is two traumas or ten thousand - depending on the number of people involved. How one experiences and reacts to an event is unique and depends largely on one's direct or indirect positioning, personal psychic history, and individual memories. But equally important to [...]

The increasing demands of today's fast-paced health care environment require a new level of prescriber expertise. Knowledge about medication characteristics and effectiveness must be accompanied by an understanding of the context and process of prescribing.[...]