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A recent Gallup and Robinson survey shows that while parents see their children's college education as one of their highest financial priorities, one-fifth of them have been unable to save anything toward it and nearly 50 percent have saved less than half of the necessary costs. You Can Affdrd College combines expert advice with personalized action plans and helpful forms and worksheets designed to clarify the financial aid process. You Can Afford College makes a confusing and frustrating process a rewarding experience. OTHER KAPLAN BOOKS College Catalog 1997 Road to College 1997 Scholarships 1998 Getting into Graduate School Getting into Med School SAT All-in-One 1997 SAT In-a-Week ACT All-in-One 1997 ACT In-a-Week MCAT 1997-1998 GMAT 1998 PRAXIS/NTE 1998 GRE w/CD-R0M1998 LSAT w/CD-ROM 1998 |
Winning the Presidency in the Nineties Dick Morris $25.95 hardback
DICK MORRIS HAS WRITTEN the
ultimate inside story about the dramatic reelection of President Clinton.
No one before has so vividly described what policy advisors, pollsters, and
advertisers do behind the scenes in the Oval Office. And no one has so
acutely identified the new political forces that are dominating America today.
Dick Morris was, as Time magazine put it, "the most influential
private citizen in America." He was President Clinton's secret election
strategist, invited to advise the demoralized president in the wake of the
midterm debacle of 1994 that gave Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole control of
Congress and, it seemed, a certatin Republican victory in the 1996
presidential campaign. Instead, Clinton made the biggest comeback in the
history of modern politics, and he did it largely because of his partnership
with Dick Morris.
And then Morris blew it.
On a day to savor his triumph, on the day when a resurgent Clinton addressed
the Democratic Convention, Morris was on the way out in disgrace: revealed as
having had a relationship with a prostitute who claimed he talked freely of
his work for the president.
In Behind The Oval Office
Dick Morris makes no excuses for his personal conduct. He is candid about
it--painfilly so--contemplating the wreckage of his career and the damage
to his marriage. But with his book we have a box-seat view of the struggles
in the White House for the soul of the Democratic party. We are taken deep
into the hidden relationship between the President and Republican Senate
leader Trent Lott. The author explains how the deals they cut formulated
the laws they passed--laws that doomed Dole's bid for the president.
This is an extraordinary book with a compelling narrative and incisive
analysis by a political operator of unparalleled experience. It is filled
with insights, touched with pathos. It is must reading for anyone who cares
about the future of American democracy.
DEEPER
Seabrook writes: "This is the story of my life on-line. Although I did get
out of the house once in a while... my main strategy was to remain alone
in my room, with my PowerBook... reading, lurking, e-mailing, posting,
pointing and clicking, and observing the effects that all this time spent
on-line had on my head."
When Seabrook is not narrating his on-line adventures, he is writing an
eyewitness history of the tumultuous period of a new medium as the Net
moves decisively from geeky hobby to a mainstream popular culture. We meet
major figures in the computer industry, catch the utopian feeling, soar over
the Net like Satan soaring over the Earth in Paradise Lost, join a
virtual community and find out what daily life is like, lose the utopian
feeling, adapt to the World Wide Web, and build a Web site.
Whether you're an old computer hand looking to compare notes, or you're
thinking about getting on-line and would like a literary road map, or you
have no intention of ever going near a computer and just want an
entertaining, well-told tale to read, you will enjoy this book. |
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by Edwidge Danticat $11.00 paperback AT AN ASTONISHINGLY YOUNG AGE, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new writers. She is an artist who evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Haiti--and the enduring strength of Haiti's women--with a vibrant imagery and narrative grace that bear witness to her people's suffering and courage. When Haitians tell a story, they say "Krik?" and the eager listeners answer "Krak!" In Krik? Krak! Danticat establishes herself as the latest heir to that narrative tradition with nine stories that encompass both the cruelties and the high ideals of Haitian life. They tell of women who continue loving behind prison walls and in the face of unfathomable loss; of a people who resist the brutality of their rulers through the powers of imagination. The result is a collection that outrages, saddens, and transports the reader with its sheer beauty. |
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THE UNLIKELY SPY by Daniel Silva $25.00 hardback CATHERINE BLAKE IS THE MODEL WAR WIDOW. Ever since she lost her RAF pilot husband in the Battle of Britain, this beautiful aristocrat has kept a stiff upper lip while caring for victims of the blitz in London's hospitals. Catherine Blake is also a deep-cover Nazi spy charged by Hitler with uncovering the details of D-Day. Her nemesis is Alfred Vicary, a fumbling professor and confidant of Winston Churchill's, who has chosen this reclusive don to run England's critical counterintelligence operations. Against this backdrop comes Daniel Silva's The Unlikely Spy, a sophisticated and altogether exceptional World War II thriller. Based on fact, Silva's fast-paced novel moves effortlessly from the Berlin High Command's espionage centers to the U-boat-infested North Sea, from the privileged playgrounds of Long Island to Hyde Park's shadowy paths--a grand canvas of intrigue that sweeps the reader along in a breathtaking race against time. If Catherine escapes to Germany, the Nazis will know the Allied invasion will be at Normandy, and if Vicary doesn't stop her, all of Britain's greatest wartime deceptions will have been for naught. But, why does it seem as if Vicary's superiors want him to fail? |
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THE UNCONSOLED Kazuo Ishiguro $13. 00 paperback FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING author of The Remains of the Day comes an audacious new novel that is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character sludy of a man whose public life has accelerated beyond control. The setting is a Central European city where a renowned pianist has come to give the most important performance of his life. Instead, he finds himself diverted on a series of cryptic and infuriating errands that nevertheless provide him with vital clues to his own past. In The Unconsoled Kazuo Ishigtiro creates a work that is itself a virtuoso performance, deeply strange, hauntingly familiar and resonant with humanity and wit. | ||
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NAKED CAME THE MANATEE by Carl Hiaasen et al. $22.95 hardback AMONG THEM THEY HAVE penned best-sellers, hit movies and top-rated television shows, and won Pulitzer Prizes, but never has any of them tried anything like this. In late 1995, a baker's dozen of Florida's finest writers began a serial novel for The Miami Herald's Tropic magazine--one writer passing complete chapters to the next. Soon Florida was hooked on Naked Came the Manatee. Now it's the rest of the country's turn.
An invention both harrowing and hilarious, filled with pungent commentary and razor-sharp wit, this is grand entertainment. And that's the naked truth. |
CALM AT SUNSET by Paul Watkins $12.00 paperback WITH INTENSITY AND BEAUTY this acclaimed novel tells the story of one young man's coming of age at sea. Defying the wishes of his family, James Pfeiffer--twenty years old and newly expelled from college--heeds the call of the open waters off the Rhode Island coast. Joining the crew of a broken-down scallop trawler, James seeks to learn the ways of fisherMen like his father on the unspoiled surface of the sea. Through endless days of exhausting labor in the company of dangerous men, James learns shockingly brutal and unexpectedly sobering lessons. But as James discovers the secrets of his motley crewmembers, he realizes that every fisherman has his own reason to love the sea, in all its promise and treachery. | |
A riot breaks out in Coconut Grove... A motorboat crashes in the bay;
spilling its mystery cargo... A drowning man is rescued by, a
102-year old woman and a manatee ... A shining steel canister reveals
its grisly and shocking secret.... This is only the prologue to a
raucously funny, intricately suspenseful story of intrigue, murder
and romance; a novel populated by an extraordinary cast of reporters,
criminals, hitmen, and even the Bearded One himself, Fidel Castro.