Hardcover Nonfiction

by Shelley Winters · Morrow

by Douglas R. Casey · Stratford Press/Harper

Advances strong evidence of an inevitable, disastrous economic depression in the United States and provides specific advice on preparing for the crash and making a profit during it.

by Milton & Rose Friedman · Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

En este libro se exponen las teorias economicas neoliberales. Milton friedman, padre espiritual de la escuela economica de chicago, teoriza sobre la intervencion del estado en la economia, la inflacion, el bienestar, etc.

by Truman Capote · Random House

by Barbara Goldsmith · Knopf

This is a story of money, glamour, and scandal (on the highest level); a story of American society and of European royalty; a story of family strife exploding into one of the most dramatic and publicized court battles of the century—the battle for a solemn ten-year-old child, “little Gloria” Vanderbilt, who in 1934 was the object of the epic custody suit between her mother, the beautiful and penniless Vanderbilt widow, and her aunt, the famous Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, whose $78 million could buy her anything she wanted. And what she wanted was “little Gloria.” The leading characters: Gloria Morgan, who was one of the fabled Morgan Twins (invented by society reporter “Cholly” Knickerbocker as the quintessential Café Society beauties) and who, as a shy, stammering eighteen-year-old, living on nothing a year, did what she was raised to do, becoming the wife of . . . Reggie Vanderbilt, at forty-three a worn-out alcoholic who had managed to go through almost $25 million in fourteen years and who died only two years after his marriage to Gloria, leaving his beautiful young widow nothing but their baby, their baby’s untouchable trust fund, and the Vanderbilt name . . . Gloria Morgan’s twin, Thelma, who, as Lady Furness, was for years the mistress of the Prince of Wales (until she introduced him to her “best friend” Wallis Simpson) . . . Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Reginald’s sister, a formidable Society woman, a sculptor and the founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art, a woman who conformed—on the surface—to everything expected of American royalty and yet lived a hidden second life as a passionate bohemian . . . And the child—little Gloria herself—shunted out of her mother’s life, carted around Europe, depending for her existence on her neurotically overprotective nurse, Dodo, who never left her for a single day, and her mad Morgan grandmother, who insisted that her own daughter might murder the child for the Vanderbilt millions. Deserted, “dressed in rags,” neglected, she became an almost mythic incarnation of “the poor little rich girl.” This child, who was to grow up to become a world-famous fashion designer, her name—Gloria Vanderbilt—a household word. We come to understand and care about this child as we observe, close up, the astonishing lives and intrigues surrounding her. We see her at the age of ten brought to the courthouse, rushed through mobs of spectators, reporters, photographers. We follow a courtroom drama of sensation after sensation, the judge ultimately banning both public and press, the final scandalous testimony reaching to the heart of the English royal family. We listen to the parade of witnesses—servants, millionaires, society celebrities, aristocrats, family retainers. We watch the judge himself—a classic Tammany pol—becoming another of the many victims of the case, reviled on all sides. And finally we see little Gloria pushed to choose between her mother and her aunt, making the decision that will affect her whole life—with nobody ever asking her the basic question, “Why are you afraid?” For the first time, the thousands of pages of documents and sealed court testimony have been unearthed and explored. Hundreds of people have been interviewed. And a writer completely knowing about society and the period has used all this material to create a compelling narrative of vitality, resonance, and fascination. Combining her extraordinary abilities as an investigative reporter with the skills and sensitivity of a novelist, Barbara Goldsmith has given us a galvanizing story, a whole world of astonishing emotional and social circumstances, unforgettably revealed.

by Craig Claiborne with Pierre Franey · Times Books

A haute cuisine diet incorporating two hundred outstanding gourmet recipes presents dozens of carefully planned meals featuring low-salt, low-fat, and beefless dishes created by Claiborne with master chef Pierre Franey

by Gay Talese · Doubleday

Simplified Chinese edition of Thy Neighbor's Wife

by Alvin Toffler · Morrow

by Robert G. Allen · Simon & Schuster

Summary: Holographs, drafts, and proofs of "Tokyo no hana", "Saigon : south of beyond" and "Cairo, the cabaret in the desert"

by Maxine Hong Kingston · Knopf

by Nancy Friday · Delacorte Press

An extraordinary, explicitly masculine journey, "Men In Love develops a startlingly honest portrayal of what it means to be a man in contemporary America. Here are the unexpurgated dreams, fantasies and fetishes that excite and obsess men today. In creating this historic study, Nancy Friday listened -- without disapproval, apology or censorship -- to the candid responses of thousands of men aged fourteen through sixty. She gave them a legitimate arena where they could share their "secret gardens" -- the hidden and forbidden but nonetheless real and true. Much more than a litany of erotica, this unique volume doesn't tell us how men should love. It tells us how men do love -- a stunning insight into the desires that dwell within men's psyches... and their hearts.

by Richard Nixon · Warner

by Norman Cousins · Norton

This bestselling classic, which started the revolution in patients working with their doctors and using humor to boost their bodies' capacity for healing, is back in this new, updated edition.

by Albert J. Lowry · Simon & Schuster

by James F. Fixx · Random House

Presents information and advice on the benefits and techniques of running, covering training routines, equipment, diet, marathons, and other subjects.