The Power to Persuade answers a fundamental question: how can you navigate a world where persuasion, rather than direct command, is the rule? In public sector organizations, and in today's "flattened" corporate hierarchies, traditional management strategies simply do not work. This book shows how to hone the political skills that are so often the key to improved performance - whether the goal is better policy or greater profit. While teaching at Harvard University, Richard Haass realized that no existing book advised people working in political settings how to be more effective. Now he has filled the gap. Using a compass as his operating metaphor - your boss is north of you, your staff is south, colleagues are east, and so on - Haass provides guidelines for managing relationships, setting goals, and translating goals into results. His interviews with Colin Powell, James Baker, Robert Strauss, and dozens of others yield valuable, practical insight. For the tens of millions of Americans

For the past fifty years, "The New York Review of Books" has covered virtually every international revolution and movement of consequence by dispatching the world's most brilliant writers to write eyewitness accounts.

A collection of thirteen macabre tales, including "The Spoiled Wife," "The Undead," "Die--Nasty," and "Pranks"

Tells the stories of a man haunted by missing memories, a pyromaniac, and a struggling screenwriter

NIGHTMARES TURNED INSIDE OUT Contents: Introduction by Gahan Wilson The Tunnel of Love The Unspeakable Betrothal The Girl From Mars The Head Hunter The Weird Tailor Lucy Comes to Stay The Pin I Do Not Love Thee, Dr. Fell Luck Is No Lady The Cure The Screaming People The Big Kick The Masterpiece Talent The Final Performance Life In Our Time Underground A Case Of The Stubborns The Head What You See Is What You Get Nina Author's Afterword

This Crowded Earth is a taut and compelling story about an all too possible future. Earth is overcrowded and its resources are being taxed to the limit. The government has a desperate plan, but will it work and at what price? By the author of Psycho and Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper

The debate over nature versus nurture in relation to intelligence is not as clearly drawn as it was ten years ago, when geneticists claimed that intelligence is innate, while environmentalists claimed that culture is the major determining factor. Although the debate has not been resolved, it has been significantly refined. Robert Sternberg and Elena Grigorenko address the roles and interaction of nature and nurture in Intelligence, Heredity and Environment. This book provides a comprehensive, balanced, current survey of theory and research on the origins and transmission of human intelligence. The book is unique in the diversity of viewpoints it presents, and its inclusion of the very most recent theories and findings. It highlights the search for genes associated with specific cognitive abilities, interactionist theories, cultural relativism, educational strategies, developmental perspectives, and fallacies of previous intelligence research.

Compares certain forms of behavior in German society during the Nazi period in relation to genocide (and actions and reactions in the rest of the world) with American and Soviet behavior in connection with nuclear weapons. Warns that "nuclear professionals" may bring about universal genocide by psychological mechanisms similar to those of the Nazi perpetrators of Jewish genocide. Shows how in both cases there is a totalist, black-and-white ideology in response to trauma; socialization in the killing profession, made possible by "doubling" of identities; the momentum of irreversible progression to ever more inhuman deeds; and dissociation, involving dehumanization of victims and disavowal of the meaning of one's actions. However, in the nuclear arms race, unlike the Holocaust, the potential victims are willing collaborators. Also, in the Holocaust, psychological numbing tended to paralyze the victims and bystanders; along with motives of expediency, this explains the failure of the German public, of world Jewry, and of the Allies to intervene.

It's been a year since Evan died in the Fear Street woods. A year since Ellen moved away, and "the gang" split up. Meg Dalton felt as if she'd lost her best friends. Everyone changed. Even her boyfriend Tony was acting moody, strange. But when she heard Ellen was returning for a visit, Meg had the answer: She'd bring them all together again with a surprise party for Ellen!

"Tania is having the best year of her life. She has a hot new boyfriend, she landed the starring role in a student film, and she's just been voted homecoming queen. But someone is jealous of Tania and plans to ruin her perfect year-even if that means killing her. Will Tania live to see the homecoming dance?"--

One of the most influential American poets of the twentieth century, Lowell was also a prolific letter-writer who corresponded with some of the remarkable writers and thinkers of his day, including Elizabeth Bishop, Edmund Wilson, Robert Kennedy, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, William Empson, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, and Marianne Moore. These letters document the transformation of Lowell's work over the course of his career; the germination of his moral beliefs - he famously opposed the WW II draft in a personal letter to President Roosevelt and was jailed as a conscientious objector; the development of his work; his reading habits; the relationship between poetry and prose that so fascinated him. 'How different prose is,' he remarked in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop. 'Sometimes the two mediums refuse to say the same things...Without verse, without philosophy, I found it hard, I was naked without my line-ends.' The letters illuminate another side of the intimate life that was the subject of so many of his poems: his deep friendships with other writers; the manic-depressive illness he struggled to endure and understand; his marriages to three prose writers, Jean Stafford, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Caroline Blackwood; his engagement with politics and the anti-war movement of the 1960s. 'By far the most famous poet of his era . . . Lowell transformed American poetry.' - Charles McGrath, THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE 'In his poems and prose . . . Lowell got more out of the midcentury American scene - literary, cultural, political - than anyone else.' - William H. Pritchard, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 'Robert Lowell was one of the three or four greatest American poets of the twentieth century . . . his real peers are the classics of American literature: Melville and Whitman, Eliot and Frost . . . Lowell's torrential eloquence, his historical consciousness, his moral and political seriousness are a standing challenge.' - Adam Kirsch, THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

Professor Robert Lopez provides an incisive analysis of the economic structure of the Middle Ages. He makes use of modern economic concepts to explain how an underdeveloped economic system gave birth to the commercial revolution through which Europe succeeded in developing itself. The book goes far beyond the familiar picture of medieval European society, with its magnificent cathedrals and imposing castles, to concentrate instead on the walled cities and open countryside, for it was here that the revolution was born. Deftly and concisely, Professor Lopez traces the history of this remarkable economic upheaval which saw the rise of merchants and craftsmen and the decline of agricultural dependence by the society.

The book marks the first time that Herzl's career, personality and the influences upon him-both preceding his Zionist involvement and following it- have been examined in such a comprehensive manner, rather than focusing exclusively on his role as founder of the Zionist movement.

Flying in the face of adversity... Howard Hughes was known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world. Funded by his considerable wealth, he formed the Hughes Aircraft Company in 1932 and spent the remainder of the decade setting multiple world air speed records. The enigma that was Howard Hughes and the saga of the mighty airline he ruled ruthlessly for two decades are combined in this unique corporate history that reads like a thrilling work of aviation fiction. Movie stars and moguls; airline chieftains and staff, from pilots to skycaps - these are the colourful characters that grace the pages of this anecdote-filled book that pulls no punches. In the course of researching the TWA story, author Robert J Serling interviewed more than one hundred individuals, many of whom knew Hughes personally. The result - a portrayal of the eccentric billionaire that has never been seen before. This is the first full account of the great air carrier that the moody, mysterious Hughes first saved from extinction and then nearly destroyed in the process... Praise for Robert J Serling 'Aviation buffs will revel in this thoroughgoing chronicle' - Kirkus Robert J Serling (1918-2010) wrote aviation fiction, as well as some non-fiction, his whole adult life and received the 1988 Lauren D. Lyman Award for distinguished achievement in the field of aviation and aerospace journalism. Formerly residents of Washington, D.C., he and his wife moved to Tucson, Arizona. He passed away in 2010 at the age of 92.

Royal jelly, that most illicit of Alien by-products, is keeping Dr Stan Myakovsky alive. Julie Lish is beautiful, mysterious and totally amoral. Together they make an attempt to grab the ultimate pot of gold - royal jelly from an Alien hive. This time the humans are on the offensive

In The Alternative Detective Sheckley once again creates a mystery with a comic heart. Hob Draconian, the Alternative Detective, is, in the tradition of Roger L. Simon's The Big Fix, an aging ex-hippie turned private investigator. Still suffering from the culture shock of returning to an America he never made, with a predatory ex-wife on his back and no prospects for work, Hob is wallowing in depression when his nephew brings him a new case. Five surfboards have gone missing on the island of Ibiza. Not the usual sort of case - but The Alternative Detective Agency isn't the usual sort of investigative firm. Draconian's international "staff, " mostly friends from Hob's hippie days, are spread all over Europe - including Ibiza. Hob's not in Europe long before he's got another case, this one more personal. A woman brings the news that an old buddy of his has disappeared in Paris. Accompanied by the attractive - and attentive - woman, Draconian journeys to Paris to search for Alex. This is no simple missing persons job - people are threatening Hob, and pointing guns at him, and generally making it clear that he's in way over his head. Hob Draconian has stumbled onto a real case, with real criminals. Organized crime, international drug trafficking, and Hob's version of the alternative lifestyle are not a good mix, but he's in too deep to get out.

The crew of the XV-ftl was looking forward to shore leave, vacation and a chance to see their families. But once they brought back the news that they had discovered aliens, they were doomed to another journey--one that could decide between peaceful coexistence or interstellar war!