Books about New books for October 2006

Psychoanalysing the American Presidents from George Washington to George W Bush, this work presents scientific personality evaluations of the American presidents. It dramatically examines how the different Presidents' personalities affected their job performance - providing evidence that a President's success or failure is pre-determined.

Who gets MS? What are its symptoms? What are its affects on the bodies and the minds of people afflicted? How does one plan for the future after diagnosis? From basic biology to advances in treatment, this book covers the topics relevant to people with MS and to their families and friends.

Written with the time sensitivities of modern life in mind, this is a collection of 90 recipes - like Green Chile Chicken Tacos, Chipotle Steak with Black Beans - that meet three criteria for everyday food: most need less than 30 minutes' involvement; they have the fresh taste of simple preparations; and they are nutritionally balanced meals.

Your guide to clear skin and self-confidence.

Demonstrating how the story of our past can help us better understand the present, geographer Denis Wood tells the story of our entire past, from the Big Bang to the World Wide Web.

Starting with the premise that there's only one chance ever to make a good impression, this book covers several issues involved in producing a plan - from profiling competitors and forecasting market development, to the importance of providing clear and concise financial information.

Welcome to a whole new world of houseplants -and a whole new generation of plant lovers ready to embrace the joy of indoor gardening! Many warm-weather gardeners welcome the chance to extend their garden hobby indoors over the entire year, where plants decorate homes, purify the air, and generally boost the spirits. Illustrated throughout with colour photographs of each plant, THE COMPLETE ...

Explores the minds and lives of some of the most brilliant and provocative thinkers of modern times, from Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling.

Arguing that the glue that binds this country together is a psychological force - patriotism - he explains why powerful emotional attachments are critical to American civic process and how they make possible united action in times of crisis.

An exploration of the Hebrew Bible and its impact on current political debates.

A book about the explanations we give and how we give them - a look at the way the reasons we offer every day are dictated by, and help constitute, social relationships. It explores the manner in which people claim, establish, negotiate, repair, rework, or terminate relations with others through the reasons they give.

Colta Ives, Susan Alyson Stein, Sjraar van Heugten and Marije Vellekoop Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) believed that drawing was 'the root of everything'. A self-taught artist, he succeeded, between 1881 and 1890, in developing an inimitable graphic style. This book traces the artist's successive triumphs as a draftsman, first in the Netherlands and later in France, highlighting the diversity of ...

In 18 remarkable essays, John Updike has collected together his thoughts and observations on American art. Beginning with early American portraits and landscapes, he goes on to extol two late-nineteenth-century masters, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, considers the eccentric pre-modern James McNeill Whistler, discusses the competing American Impressionists and Realists of the earlier twentieth ..

The Global Threat of Avian Flu. In this urgent and extraordinarily frightening book, Mike Davis reconstructs the scientific and political history of a viral apocalypse-in-the-making, exposing the central roles of agribusiness and the fast-food industries, abetted by corrupt governments, in creating the ecological conditions for the emergence of this new plague.