Product Description: A collection of nineteen prose pieces, alternately satiric and tender.

A salesman develops a special knock to encourage customers to answer their doors, two lonely parents adopt light bulbs, a dead man can't bear to leave his grieving wife, and a couple develops a new language for their family

The authors describe the culture and daily life of the Beng, who live in a remote West African rain forest

A frequenter of yard sales and bowling alleys, Michael Kirby hunts for odd objects and stories to share with his family and lovers, including his mistress, a meteorologist haunted by her failed predictions. A first novel. 10,000 first printing. Tour.

A collection of stories revolves around the idea that people are fueled by their secret personal worlds--their interior designs--such as the woman who builds a wire model of herself and hides it in her closet. 10,000 first printing.

Michael Kirby, a sensitive man who collects odd objects to mark the transitions in his life, tries to understand the language of the heart through his relationships to family and lovers. Reprint. NYT.

Product Description: This is the fourth edition of one of the standard international textbooks on child and adolescent mental health, with an up-to-date, evidence-based approach to practical clinical issues.

Product Description: Susan Isaacs’ work was groundbreaking in the professional fields of education, psychoanalysis and psychology. She also had a strong influence on the way middle-class mothers brought up their young children in the pre-Spock era of the nineteen thirties in Britain by acting as an “agony aunt”: answering readers’ questions in the Nursery World...read more

Product Description: A dispatch from a foreign land, when crafted by an attentive and skilled writer, can be magical, transmitting pleasure, drama, and seductive strangeness.In The Moon, Come to Earth, Philip Graham offers an expanded edition of a popular series of dispatches originally published on McSweeney’s, an exuberant yet introspective account of a year’s sojourn in Lisbon with his wife and daughter...read more

In a compelling mix of literary narrative and ethnography, anthropologist Alma Gottlieb and writer Philip Graham continue the long journey of cultural engagement with the Beng people of Côte d’Ivoire that they first recounted in their award-winning memoir Parallel Worlds. Their commitment over the span of several decades has lent them a rare insight. Braiding their own stories with those of the villagers of Asagbé and Kosangbé, Gottlieb and Graham take turns recounting a host of unexpected dramas with these West African villages, prompting serious questions about the fraught nature of cultural contact. Through events such as a religious leader’s declaration that the authors’ six-year-old son, Nathaniel, is the reincarnation of a revered ancestor, or Graham’s late father being accepted into the Beng afterlife, or the increasing, sometimes dangerous madness of a villager, the authors are forced to reconcile their anthropological and literary gaze with the deepest parts of their personal lives. Along with these intimate dramas, they follow the Beng from times of peace through the times of tragedy that led to Côte d’Ivoire’s recent civil conflicts. From these and many other interweaving narratives—and with the combined strengths of an anthropologist and a literary writer—Braided Worlds examines the impact of postcolonialism, race, and global inequity at the same time that it chronicles a living, breathing village community where two very different worlds meet.