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Thirty million people today care for ailing family members in their own homes--a number that will increase dramatically over the next decade as baby boomers enter old age, as soldiers return home from war mentally and physically wounded, as medical advances extend lives and health insurance fails to cover them.

Offering both companionship and guidance to the people who find themselves caring for their intimates, An Uncertain Inheritance is a collection of essays from some of the country's most accomplished writers. Poignant, honest, sometimes heartbreaking, often wry, and...

First published in 1984, this book carefully dissects and convincingly demonstrates that conservative economics is incoherent in theory and disastrous in practice. The three main schools of thought supporting "free-market" policies – supply side economics, monetarism and rational expectations- are examined in turn and each is found defective. Three case studies of conservative policy in action follow: Reagan’s U.S., Thatcher’s U.K. and Pinochet’s Chile and their courses are charted in economic conservatism’s ideology and social policy, and the book concludes with an assessment of...

The Tao of Bondage, a woman-friendly and sex-positive book, explores the playful and profound ways bodies and minds respond to restraint. Forty erotic black-and-white photo spreads enhance the insight garnered from consensual bondage between adults.

Bondage triggers the somatosensory system, the elements of the human body that respond to tactile stimulation. In the cascade of feel-good chemicals, tops and bottoms achieve a higher state of consciousness.

This one activity, an important part of the BDSM lifestyle and more casual BDSM play,...

Unholy Ghost is a unique collection of essays about depression that, in the spirit of William Styron's Darkness Visible, finds vivid expression for an elusive illness suffered by more than one in five Americans today. Unlike any other memoir of depression, however, Unholy Ghost includes many voices and depicts the most complete portrait of the illness. Lauren Slater eloquently describes her own perilous experience as a pregnant woman on antidepressant medication. Susanna Kaysen, writing for the first time about depression since Girl, Interrupted, criticizes...

Seven friends. One killer. You can run, but you can't hide...

It's Boxing Day and your friendship group has planned a hike. You know tensions are running high. You've heard the rumours flying around.

But this trip is a chance for you to reconnect. As you head into the reserve, everyone is quiet. It almost feels like you've imagined the rift.

But as the sun sets, you hear a gun shot. One of your group is dead. And someone you know killed them...

A fast-paced, edge-of-your-seat thriller with a killer twist you just...

The "wonderfully talented" (Dwight Garner, New York Times) author of Mislaid returns with a "heady, witty" (Booklist) novel of obsession, idealism, and ownership, centered around a young woman who inherits her bohemian father's childhood home.

Recent business school graduate Penny Baker has rebelled against her family her whole life--by being the conventional one. Her mother, Amalia, was a member of an Amazonian tribe called the Kogi; her much older father, Norm, long ago attained cult-like deity status among a certain group of aging hippies while...