The landmark translation, based on the "Linyi text" that predates all previous versions by 1,000 years
"There is no doubt that J. H. Huang's new translation of Sun-tzu will be valuable to scholars of military art for many years to come. ... An important work." —General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
"The Linyi verion of Sun-tzu provides a fresh new interpretation of Sun-tzu's classic works. As the oldest version yet discovered, it lays strong claim to the closet adherence of Sun-tzu's true intent." —General David W. Barno
Sun-tzu's The Art of War is the classic work on strategic thinking. Throughout recorded history, Sun-tzu's wisdom, rules, and philosophy have been eagerly embraced by warriors, leaders, and gentle contemplators alike.
This edition is an entirely new text based on manuscripts discovered in Linyi, China, in 1972 that predate all previous texts by as many as one thousand years. To better convey Sun-tzu's original intent, translator, researcher, and interpreter J. H. Huang traced the roots of the language to Sun-tzu's own time—before 221 b.c. In addition to his wonderfully clear interpretation, Huang gives readers an introduction to the history behind The Art of War, includes six appendices—five of which were uncovered at Linyi and are not available in any other edition—and offers his own insightful comments on the meaning of the text.

The Art of War: The Definitive Translation of the Linyi Text (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

Business & Money

Sun Tzu

Huang, J H

Business Culture

Harper Perennial Modern Classics

Rated the most satisfying textbook by students in independent research, Spiceland/Sepe/Nelson’s Intermediate Accounting, 6th Edition, has the quality, flexibility, and attention to detail students need to master a challenging subject. It's your Vehicle to Success in the Intermediate Accounting course and beyond! Spiceland/Sepe/Nelson provides a decision maker’s perspective to emphasize the professional judgment and critical thinking skills required of accountants today. Reviewers, instructors, and student users of Spiceland have enthusiastically embraced the relaxed, conversational writing style that engages students in an enjoyable and effective learning experience. In addition, accounting's preeminent textbook website provides students a wide variety of electronic learning resources, including iPod content. Study Guide, Instructor's Manual, Solutions Manual, Testbank, and Website content are all created by authors, ensuring seamless compatibility throughout the Spiceland learning package. The end-of-chapter material is also written by the author team and tested in their own classes before being included in Intermediate Accounting. Few areas see the kind of rapid change that accounting does, and the Spiceland team is committed to staying current. The sixth edition fully integrates all the latest FASB Standards, and the authors are committed to keeping you updated with all relevant content changes throughout the edition.

Intermediate Accounting with British Airways Annual Report

Biographies & Memoirs

Spiceland,J. David

Sepe,James

Nelson,Mark

True Crime

McGraw-Hill/Irwin

Sex Crimes and Paraphilia offers a comprehensive examination of sex crimes, sex offenders, victims of sex crimes as well as intervention and treatment strategies. Examining a wide range of sex crimes ranging from non-violent offenses such as exhibitionism, voyeurism and obscene telephone calls to serial rapes and lust murders, Sex Crimes and Paraphilia looks to uncover the roots and causes of these behaviors to aid in the understanding of sex offenders and their crimes.

Sex Crimes and Paraphilia

Politics & Social Sciences

Hickey, Eric W.

Social Sciences

Pearson

Richard Saferstein, PhD, retired in 1991 after serving for twenty-one years as the chief forensic scientist of the New Jersey State Police Laboratory, one of the largest crime laboratories in the United States. He currently acts as a consultant for attorneys and the media in the area of forensic science. During the O.J. Simpson criminal trial, Dr. Saferstein provided extensive commentary on forensic aspects of the case for the Rivera Live show, the E! Television network, ABC radio, and various radio talk shows. Dr. Saferstein holds degrees from the City College of New York and earned his doctorate degree in chemistry in 1970 from the City University of New York. From 1972 to 1991, he taught an introductory forensic science course in the criminal justice programs at the College of New Jersey and Ocean County College. These teaching experiences played an influential role in Dr. Saferstein's authorship in 1977 of the widely used introductory textbook Criminalistics: An Introduction to Forensic Science, currently in its twelfth edition. Dr. Saferstein's basic philosophy in writing Forensic Science: From the Crime Scene to the Crime Lab, 4th Edition, is to make forensic science understandable and meaningful to the nonscience reader while giving the reader an appreciation for the scientific principles that underlie the subject. Dr. Saferstein has authored or coauthored more than forty-five technical papers covering a variety of forensic topics. He authored Basic Laboratory Exercises for Forensic Science, 2nd Edition (Prentice Hall, 2011), and coauthored Lab Manual for Criminalistics, 11th Edition (Prentice Hall, 2015). He has also edited the widely used professional reference books Forensic Science Handbook, Volume 1, 2nd Edition (Prentice Hall, 2002), Forensic Science Handbook, Volume 2, 2nd Edition (Prentice Hall, 2005), and Forensic Science Handbook, Volume 3, 2nd Edition (Prentice Hall, 2010). Dr. Saferstein is a member of the American Chemical Society, American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Canadian Society of Forensic Scientists, International Association for Identification, Northeastern Association of Forensic Scientists, and Society of Forensic Toxicologists. In 2006, Dr. Saferstein received the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Paul L. Kirk award for distinguished service and contributions to the field of criminalistics. Tiffany Roy, JD, made substantial contributions assisting Dr. Saferstein in the revision of this edition of the textbook, the supplements that accompany the textbook, and the new Revel interactive eText. Roy is a Forensic DNA expert with over eleven years of forensic biology experience in both public and private laboratories in the United States. She instructs undergraduates at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Florida; University of Maryland University College; and Southern New Hampshire University. She currently acts as a consultant for attorneys and the media in the area of forensic biology through her firm, ForensicAid, LLC. Roy holds degrees from Syracuse University, Massachusetts School of Law, and University of Florida in the areas of biology, law, and forensic science. Her teaching, legal writing, and testimonial experience help her to take complex scientific concepts and make them easily understandable for the nonscientist.

Forensic Science: From the Crime Scene to the Crime Lab

Saferstein, Richard

Roy, Tiffany

Boyd/Bee, Lifespan Development provides the most support for student learning and student success. For undergraduate courses in Human Development / Lifespan Development. Provides strong applications, and integrated learning objectives and assessment. Students who want to know "What does current research say?" and "Why is this important?" will appreciate both the applied nature of this text and the clarity and rigor of the authors' presentation of current research. An exceptional pedagogical package that ties the textbook to online MyDevelopmentLab study tools complements the student-centered approach of the book and offers students the benefit of frequent self-assessment. Available with MyDevelopmentLab! www.pearsonhighered.com/newmylabs MyDevelopmentLab (www.mydevelopmentlab.com) includes MyVirtualChild, an interactive simulation which allows students to raise their own virtual child and see how their parenting decisions along with other factors influence the development of their virtual child. Click here for a brief overview of MyVirtualChild: www.youtube.com/pearsonpsych. Class Prep is included in MyDevelopmentLab for instructors. Click here for a brief overview of Class Prep: http://media.pearsoncmg.com/searchtooltutorials/

Lifespan Development (6th Edition)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Boyd, Denise

Bee, Helen

Psychology & Counseling

Henslin's best-selling brief paperback text shares the excitement of sociology—its acclaimed "down-to-earth" approach and personal writing style highlight the sociology of everyday life and its relevance to readers' lives. The author has a unique ability to engage readers. With wit, personal reflection, and illuminating examples, Henslin shares with readers a passion for sociology unmatched by any other introductory text.

Essentials of Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach

Henslin, James M.

Allyn & Bacon

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author of Say Nothing, as featured in the HBO documentary Crime of the Century. The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions--Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and the sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis. Empire of Pain begins with the story of three doctor brothers, Raymond, Mortimer and the incalculably energetic Arthur, who weathered the poverty of the Great Depression and appalling anti-Semitism. Working at a barbaric mental institution, Arthur saw a better way and conducted groundbreaking research into drug treatments. He also had a genius for marketing, especially for pharmaceuticals, and bought a small ad firm. Arthur devised the marketing for Valium, and built the first great Sackler fortune. He purchased a drug manufacturer, Purdue Frederick, which would be run by Raymond and Mortimer. The brothers began collecting art, and wives, and grand residences in exotic locales. Their children and grandchildren grew up in luxury. Forty years later, Raymond's son Richard ran the family-owned Purdue. The template Arthur Sackler created to sell Valium--co-opting doctors, influencing the FDA, downplaying the drug's addictiveness--was employed to launch a far more potent product: OxyContin. The drug went on to generate some thirty-five billion dollars in revenue, and to launch a public health crisis in which hundreds of thousands would die. This is the saga of three generations of a single family and the mark they would leave on the world, a tale that moves from the bustling streets of early twentieth-century Brooklyn to the seaside palaces&nbsp;of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Cap d'Antibes to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C.&nbsp; Empire of Pain chronicles the multiple investigations of the Sacklers and their company, and the scorched-earth legal tactics that the family has used to evade accountability. The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama--baroque personal lives; bitter disputes over estates; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering art collections; Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers; and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush the less powerful. Empire of Pain is a masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, exhaustively documented and ferociously compelling. It is a portrait of the excesses of America's second Gilded Age, a study of impunity among the super elite and a relentless investigation of the naked greed and indifference to human suffering that built one of the world's great fortunes.

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Keefe, Patrick Radden

Historical

Doubleday

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An up-close portrait of the mind of an addict and a life unraveled by narcotics—a memoir of captivating urgency and surprising humor that puts a human face on the opioid crisis. “Raw, brutal, and shocking. Move over, Orange Is the New Black.”—Amy Dresner, author of My Fair Junkie When word got outthat Tiffany Jenkins was withdrawing from opiates on the floor of a jail cell, people in her town were shocked. Not because of the twenty felonies she’d committed, or the nature of her crimes, or even that she’d been captain of the high school cheerleading squad just a few years earlier, but because her boyfriend was a Deputy Sherriff, and his friends—their friends—were the ones who’d arrested her. A raw and twisty page-turning memoir that reads like fiction, High Achiever spans Tiffany’s life as an active opioid addict, her 120 days in a Florida jail where every officer despised what she’d done to their brother in blue, and her eventual recovery. With heart-racing urgency and unflinching honesty, Jenkins takes you inside the grips of addiction and the desperate decisions it breeds. She is a born storyteller who lived an incredible story, from blackmail by an ex-boyfriend to a soul-shattering deal with a drug dealer, and her telling brims with suspense and unexpected wit. But the true surprise is her path to recovery. Tiffany breaks through the stigma and silence to offer hope and inspiration to anyone battling the disease—whether it’s a loved one or themselves.

High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life

Jenkins, Tiffany

Community & Culture

Harmony/Rodale

A riveting, on-the-edge-of-your-seat tale about the notorious 1978 kidnapping of Baron douard-Jean"Wado" Empain, intertwined with the story of his famous grandfather, the first baron and builder of the Paris Metro. A multigenerational saga told against the backdrops of both Belle poque and 1970s high-fashion Paris. What does it take to create a dynasty? What does it take to keep one going? And what does it take to save the life of the dazzling but flawed man who inherited it all? Launched in the 1880s by the first baron, the Empain industrial empire spread from Belgium and France to span more than a dozen countries. When Wado took over, he further expanded the company, became a key player in France's nuclear sector, and, by the mid-1970s, was one of the country's most powerful business leaders-a self-described "master of the universe." But these were also the "years of lead," marked by a rash of high-profile kidnappings around the globe, including the headline-grabbing seizure of American heiress Patty Hearst. Wado's vertiginous rise caught the eye of Alain Cailloll, a small-time gangster who had grown up in a wealthy family before embracing a life of crime. On January 23, 1978, Caillol and his confederates snatched the baron off the Paris streets, sure that they'd get the 80 million francs they demanded in ransom. To show they meant business, they chopped off Wado's little finger and warned that more body parts would follow. But nothing unfolded as the kidnappers, or Wado himself, expected. Would Empain's company pay? Could his family afford this astronomical sum? How much was the life of a leader, a father, and a husband worth? Most important, could a determined police chief and his crack investigators outsmart the kidnappers? The answers to those questions unspooled over two months in a tangle of events leading to a bloody showdown whose consequences would prove fatal to the Empain dynasty.

The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire

Sancton, Tom

Humor & Entertainment

Dutton

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author of Say Nothing, as featured in the HBO documentary Crime of the Century. 
 The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions—Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and the sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis.\nEmpire of Pain begins with the story of three doctor brothers, Raymond, Mortimer and the incalculably energetic Arthur, who weathered the poverty of the Great Depression and appalling anti-Semitism. Working at a barbaric mental institution, Arthur saw a better way and conducted groundbreaking research into drug treatments. He also had a genius for marketing, especially for pharmaceuticals, and bought a small ad firm.\nArthur devised the marketing for Valium, and built the first great Sackler fortune. He purchased a drug manufacturer, Purdue Frederick, which would be run by Raymond and Mortimer. The brothers began collecting art, and wives, and grand residences in exotic locales. Their children and grandchildren grew up in luxury.\nForty years later, Raymond’s son Richard ran the family-owned Purdue. The template Arthur Sackler created to sell Valium—co-opting doctors, influencing the FDA, downplaying the drug’s addictiveness—was employed to launch a far more potent product: OxyContin. The drug went on to generate some thirty-five billion dollars in revenue, and to launch a public health crisis in which hundreds of thousands would die.\nThis is the saga of three generations of a single family and the mark they would leave on the world, a tale that moves from the bustling streets of early twentieth-century Brooklyn to the seaside palaces of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Cap d’Antibes to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. 
Empire of Pain chronicles the multiple investigations of the Sacklers and their company, and the scorched-earth legal tactics that the family has used to evade accountability. The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama—baroque personal lives; bitter disputes over estates; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering art collections; Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers; and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush the less powerful.\nEmpire of Pain is a masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, exhaustively documented and ferociously compelling. It is a portrait of the excesses of America’s second Gilded Age, a study of impunity among the super elite and a relentless investigation of the naked greed and indifference to human suffering that built one of the world’s great fortunes. 
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New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2021 • One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2021 • One of NPR’s Best Books of the Year • TIME Magazine 100 Must Read Books of 2021 • One of Slate's Best Books of 2021 • Winner of the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction • On President Obama's 2021 Reading List\n“I read everything he writes. Every time he writes a book, I read it. Every time he writes an article, I read it … he’s a national treasure.” - 
 Rachel Maddow, host of MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” and author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Blowout\n“An engrossing (and frequently enraging) tale of striving, secrecy and self-delusion….Keefe nimbly guides us through the thicket of family intrigues and betrayals… Even when detailing the most sordid episodes, Keefe’s narrative voice is calm and admirably restrained, allowing his prodi

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