Author: Paul Ekman
Publisher: Times Books
Keywords: communication, emotional, life, improve, feelings, revealed, recognizing, faces, emotions
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-04-07
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0805072756
ISBN-13: 9780805072754

A fascinating exploration of how we interpret and experience emotions-and how we can improve our emotional skills-by a pioneering psychologist A renowned expert in nonverbal communication, Paul Ekman has led a revolution in our scientific understanding of emotions. Now he assembles his pathbreaking research and theories in a comprehensive look at human emotional life.Emotions Revealed explores the evolutionary essence of anger, sadness, fear, surprise, disgust, contempt, and happiness. Drawing on his fieldwork investigating universal facial expressions in Papua New Guinea and his analysis of t

Author: Tillman. Durdin
Publisher: Times Books
Keywords: red, china, report, times, york, new
Published: 1972-02
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0812903420
ISBN-13: 9780812903423

Author: Anthony Tommasini
Publisher: Times Books
Keywords: guide, important, works, recordings, critic, opera, york, times, essential, library, new
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2004-11-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0805074597
ISBN-13: 9780805074598

An insightful, provocative selection of the best opera performances, chosen by The New York Times’s chief classical music critic in one hundred original essaysOpera intertwines the drama of the theater with the powerful emotionality of music. In this magical and illuminating guide to the best opera recordings, Anthony Tommasini delves into the ways story and music interweave to create the subtle but telling moments that move us. Tommasini brings to life the rich history of opera performance and the singers and conductors who, over the past century, have come to own the music. He chooses

Author: Peter S. Goodman
Publisher: Times Books
Keywords: american, economy, renewal, money, due, easy, past
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2009-09-15
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0805089802
ISBN-13: 9780805089806

How Main Street was hit by—and might recover from—the financial crisis, by The New York Times’s national economics correspondentWhen the financial crisis struck in 2008, Main Street felt the blow just as hard as Wall Street. The New York Times national economics correspondent Peter S. Goodman takes us behind the headlines and exposes how the flow of capital from Asia and Silicon Valley to the suburbs of the housing bubble perverted America’s economy. He follows a real estate entrepreneur who sees endless opportunity in the underdeveloped lots of Florida—until the mortgages for them c

Author: Joseph Silk
Publisher: Times Books
Keywords: third, bang
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2000-12-06
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 080507256X
ISBN-13: 9780805072563

Our universe was born billions of years ago in a hot, violent explosion of elementary particles and radiationæthe big bang. What do we know about this ultimate moment of creation, and how do we know it?Drawing upon the latest theories and technology, the new edition of The Big Bang, is a sweeping, lucid account of the event that set the universe in motion. Award-winning astronomer and physicist Joseph Silk begins his story with the first microseconds of the big bang, on through the evolution of stars, galaxies, clusters of galaxies, quasars, and into the distant future of our universe. He

Authors:Kevin Phillips, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.,
Publisher: Times Books
Keywords: 25th, president, series, presidents, mckinley, american, william
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2003-10-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0805069534
ISBN-13: 9780805069532

A bestselling historian and political commentator reconsiders McKinley’s overshadowed legacyBy any serious measurement, bestselling historian Kevin Phillips argues, William McKinley was a major American president. It was during his administration that the United States made its diplomatic and military debut as a world power. McKinley was one of eight presidents who, either in the White House or on the battlefield, stood as principals in successful wars, and he was among the six or seven to take office in what became recognized as a major realignment of the U.S. party system. Phillips, au

Author: James Barron
Publisher: Times Books
Keywords: grand, concert, steinway, making, piano
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-05-29
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0805083049
ISBN-13: 9780805083040

“Satisfying to the point of sensuousness.” —The New York Times Book Review Like no other instrument, a grand piano melds the magic of engineering with the magic of great music. Alone among the big piano companies, Steinway & Sons still crafts each of its pianos largely by hand, imbuing each one with the promise and burden of its brand. In this captivating narrative, James Barron of The New York Times tells the story of one Steinway piano, from raw lumber to finished instrument. Barron follows that brand-new piano—known by its number, K0862—on its journey through the factory, wh