Product Description: Finalist for the 2016 Kirkus Prize for Fiction An Indie Next Selection • One of USA TODAY’s “Hottest Books” • One of New York magazine’s “8 Books You Need to Read” “A fearless novel about a family and a society on the brink…Harrowing but, against all odds, ultimately tender...read more

This topically organized, research-based text covers the physical, cognitive, and psychosocial aspects of human development, with attention to all periods of the life span. Its topical organization makes this text a truly unique alternative to traditional, chronologically organized development texts. .By combining the best of the topical and chronological approaches, the authors are able to present life-span development as a ''motion picture'' rather than as a series of individual ''snapshots,'' thus preserving the integrity of the life-span development concept..Although in the Second Edition the basic perspective remains unchanged, the authors have sharpened the focus on themes such as the importance of the fit between person and environment, and added emphasis on cultural and subcultural diversity in development. Because of the complexity of many of the issues in human development, Sigelman and Shaffer have aimed for a book that is highly readable and yet scholarly. Through careful organization, real life examples, a clear and straightforward writing style, apt use of concrete examples and analogies, and a focus on the relevance of materials to students' lives, the authors have made even the most complex topics accessible to their readers.

Product Description: A sordid story combination of adultery, addiction, gambling debt, and murder set in a privileged suburban town The Marshalls were the model family of Tom’s River, New Jersey, living the American dream and seemingly in possession of all that money could buy...read more

Just in time for the kickoff of the 2012 presidential campaign, Joe McGinniss, the author of the classic account of the packaging of a presidential candidate, The Selling of the President, of the acclaimed search for the essence of Alaska, Going to Extremes, and of the bestselling study of the dark family secrets of an American patriarch, Fatal Vision, presents his already controversial investigative chronicle of Sarah Palin as an individual, politician, and cultural phenomenon.Based on McGinniss’s on-the-ground reporting that began in late 2008 (which yielded an April 2009 Conde Nast Portfolio cover story) and continued with his return to Alaska in 2010, this book is a startling and penetrating examination of the illusion and reality of Palin--and a probing look at the Alaska and the America that have produced her, and the country she feels she is destined to lead. The Rogue delves deeply into Alaska’s political and business affairs and Palin’s political, personal, and family life to chronicle how and to what extent Palin and her beliefs, attitudes, and outlook will influence and even change life in America and the perception of America abroad.

Joe McGinniss - journalist, investigative reporter, and horse racing obsessive - recounts the heartwarming story of veteran trainer P. G. Johnson who, in sixty years as a leading trainer at all three New York tracks, had never had a "big horse." Then, in his seventies, he bought a mare, bred her, and produced Volponi, who won the Breeder's Cup Classic in 2002.

An account of life in today's Alaska takes in whites, Eskimos, and Native Indians, cities, towns, and wilderness, industry and trapping, and the idiosyncracies, dangers, vastness, and wonders of America's last frontier

At thirty-nine, Nancy Kissel had it all: the royal lifestyle of the expatriate wife, three young children, and what a friend described as "the best marriage in the universe." That marriage--to investment banker Robert Kissel--ended one November night in 2003 in their luxury apartment high above Hong Kong's glittering Victoria Harbour when Robert was murdered and Nancy became the prime suspect. Her 2005 trial captivated Hong Kong's expatriate community and attracted global attention. Less than a year after the jury returned its unexpected verdict, Rob's brother, Andrew, was also found dead, stabbed in the back at his multimillion-dollar Greenwich mansion. Never Enough is the harrowing true story of two brothers, who grew up wanting to own the world but instead wound up murdered half a world apart, and of Nancy Kissel, a modern American woman for whom having it all might not have been enough.

A trip to Italy to spend time with a wildly successful small-town soccer team lands the author in Castel di Sangro, a dusty, charming Italian village right out of a scene from the Godfather movies. Reprint.

Product Description: Fatal Vision is the electrifying true story of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, the handsome, Princeton-educated physician convicted of savagely slaying his young pregnant wife and two small children, murders he vehemently denies committing...read more

A detailed portrait follows the Kennedy family through the sixties, from Jack's ascension to the presidency, through the first assassinations, Chappaquiddick, their father's death, and finally to Teddy's solitary survival. Reprint.

An intimate portrait of the youngest of the Kennedy brothers covers the assassination of John and Bobby, Chappaquiddick, and recent controversies. Simultaneous.

An account of the murder and attempted murder of the Von Steins describes how Bonnie Von Stein came to the shocking realization that the man who entered her bedroom, shot her husband, and stabbed her was her own son. Reprint. NYT.

Product Description: The Marshalls were the model family of Tom’s River, New Jersey, living the American dream of all that money could buy. Rob Marshall was the big breadwinner, king of the country club set. Maria Marshall was his stunningly beautiful wife and the perfect mom to their three great kids...read more

A search for the vanished American hero and the causes of his demise takes the form of an autobiographical commentary on the hero's traits and attractions and on contemporary celebrities who might have achieved hero status

Records the important role played by advertising technicians, ghost writers, P. R. experts, and pollsters in the 1968 presidential campaign of Richard Nixon