New Releases by Richard Howard

Discover Your American Dream: Where Does True Happiness Await You? Have you ever felt the call of the majestic Rockies, or been lured by the siren song of the Atlantic seaboard? Perhaps you''ve dreamt of immersing yourself in the serene plains of the Midwest, or soaking up the vibrant energy of bustling cityscapes. America, in all its vastness and diversity, holds a unique promise of happiness for everyone. But the pressing question remains: Where in this expansive land will you find your truest joy? States of Happiness is your compass to navigating the myriad lifestyles, cultures, and landscapes of the USA. It''s not just about where you might want to live--it''s about where your soul will feel most at home. Dive deep into each region, exploring the nuances that might resonate with your inner desires and aspirations. From the snow-capped peaks of the Cascades to the dynamic deserts of the Southwest, every chapter paints a vivid picture of what life might look like in these iconic settings. Discover the allure of the East and West coasts, and let the charm of the South captivate your heart. Whether you''re drawn to the untamed wilderness of the Great Northwest or the tropical paradises of island life, this guide will offer insights into what truly makes each locale special. But it''s not just about geography and scenic beauty. States of Happiness delves into the heart of what makes these places tick--the communities, the lifestyles, and the unique opportunities they present. Whether you''re a nature enthusiast, a city dweller, or someone seeking the peace of the countryside, this book will help you find the region that harmonizes with your personal rhythm. As you journey through these pages, you''ll also encounter captivating tales of those who''ve found their perfect fit, enriching the narrative with real-life testimonials. And for those eager to take the next step, an appendix of resources awaits, guiding you on where to look next. It''s time to embark on the most profound journey of self-discovery. Let States of Happiness be your guide, and find that special corner of America where your heart truly belongs.

A review of the epidemiological, interpersonal, developmental and neurobiological underpinnings of antisocial personality and its treatment.

A lauded American poet''s tributes to Walt Whitman and Henry James, now collected for the first time. Richard Howard has long been recognized as one of America’s finest poets, celebrated as an author for his keen engagement with other authors, and especially for his sparkling and trenchant dramatic monologues and two-part inventions. Through the years, Howard has, in this way, given voice to all sorts of historical and literary figures, but two of his favorite subjects are two of his favorite writers—Walt Whitman and Henry James—and this book gathers an array of poems in which he responds to these great gay forebears, as well as to two other beloved Americans, Hart Crane and Wallace Stevens. Here Whitman the good gray poet opens his door to Bram Stoker and to Oscar Wilde; Henry James struggles to take stock of Los Angeles, where he is to have lunch with L. Frank Baum; Edith Wharton reminisces about her fraught friendship with the Master; poor Pansy from The Portrait of a Lady broods on her dreadful father; and late in life Wallace Stevens visits Paris—as Stevens never did. Howard’s wonderful inventions are as expansive and celebratory and human as Whitman, as deeply and subtly inquiring as James, as sumptuously meditative as Stevens, and as arresting and delightful as Richard Howard himself.

A loyal cavalry officer must prevent a plot against Napoleon himself in this thrilling historical military adventure. France, 1803. It is September, and the uneasy peace between Bonaparte and his great rivals looks ever more precarious. The English suspect that Napoleon had an ulterior motive for signing the treaty of Amiens. And they are right. 200,000 soldiers are arriving on the French coast, readying to invade Britain. Amongst them is Alain Lausard and his fellow dragoons, veterans of Bonaparte’s greatest battles. But whilst Lausard lives for war, even he feels hesitant about the imminent attack. The French Army may be the greatest in Europe, but England dominates the high seas. And while Napoleon is confident of victory, there are whispers plotting against him from within. Suddenly, the campaign is not what it seems . . .

Napoleon’s mighty army face the inferno of the Egyptian desert in this thrilling historical adventure, the sequel to Bonaparte’s Sons. France, 1798. Seventeen thousand French troops leave Toulon harbor in May, unaware of their ultimate destination. Barely three months after taking Rome, Napoleon Bonaparte has rewarded his finest regiments with a place among the Army of the Orient, bound for Egypt. Alain Lausard and his cavalry unit are on board the frigate L’Esperance. Their first battle is merely to survive the degradation that is life at sea. By the time they stagger, starved and exhausted, upon the shores of Egypt, Lausard’s dragoons have more than glory to fight for. As his beleaguered soldiers march into the desert, Bonaparte watches his tactical gamble collapse. Even when the Mameluke army is defeated beneath the pyramids, Admiral Nelson’s destruction of the French fleet and Bonaparte’s obsessive war-mongering convince Lausard that he will never see Paris again . . .

As they march into Poland, an exhausted Grand Armeé must battle both enemies and the elements in this epic adventure of the Napoleonic Wars. Poland, 1807: Sergeant Alain Lausard and his loyal dragoons have never known a campaign like it. Already spent from their victory over Prussia, they must now march into Poland and battle General Bennigsen’s Russian troops. And the Tsar is not the only enemy that must be overcome: country and climate conspire to make conditions impossible. The Grande Armeé may be renowned for its ability to move with speed and purpose, but as torrential rain turns Polish roads to quagmires, they face a battle-hardened foe just as their strength reaches its lowest ebb. Perhaps not even Bonaparte’s tactical brilliance will be enough to save Lausard and his men from a deadly debacle . . .

In this sweeping historical series debut, a fallen French aristocrat must prove himself in the furnace of Napoleon’s army. France, 1795: Confusion and fear reign in the Republic. With her troops facing starvation and annihilation on three fronts, France is killing her patriots. Alain Lausard, an aristocrat whose family were massacred in The Terror, now rots in prison. His one chance at freedom is to serve in the faltering Italian campaign, now commanded by a young Napoleon Bonaparte. Trained as a soldier, Lausard commands respect for turning his ragged miscreants into ruthless cavalry. Yet tensions remain. As the unit falls under the command of the despotic Cezar, a hazardous mission behind enemy lines threatens everything . . .

As Napoleon prepares to invade Prussia, a war-weary sergeant is pushed to his limit in this epic military adventure series. France, 1806. Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grande Armeé is poised for war. But this is no ordinary mission. Having crushed the forces of Austria and Russia the year before, Bonaparte now seeks to avenge the French Army’s annihilation by Frederick the Great’s Prussian forces in 1757. When Prussia refuses to comply with Bonaparte’s demands that they surrender and form an alliance against England, war becomes inevitable. Sergeant Alain Lausard and his war-weary squadron of dragoons have been through many epic battles under Napoleon’s command. They would do anything for their great leader. But as they prepare to enter into yet another bloody campaign that will feature battles at Jena and Auerstadt, their loyalties are stretched to the limit . . .

A cavalry officer roots out conspirators in Paris as Napoleon mounts his fateful coup in this epic historical novel. France, 1799: As corruption spreads through the ruling Directory and rebels terrorize the countryside, the ideals of the Revolution seem far away. Napoleon Bonaparte returns from Egypt determined to restore order—and take control. Recalled to Paris to buttress their commander’s political ambitions, Alain Lausard and his heroic cavalry unit look on as Bonaparte stages a coup d’état. With Bonaparte under pressure to make peace with France’s enemies abroad, Lausard’s dragoons are reduced to flushing out enemies hiding in the gutters of Paris. When Bonaparte prepares to reclaim lost territory in Italy, Lausard is relieved. He owes his freedom to Bonaparte—and only through war can he contain the guilt he still feels for fleeing his family during The Terror. As the French cavalry crosses the Alps, Lausard’s men will face their most daunting challenge yet . . .

This vintage book contains a detailed guide to fox hunting, with information on its history, saddlery, equipment, where and when to hunt, maintaining horses, breeding hounds, and more. A timeless guide highly recommended for those with an interest in the history of English fox hunting, "Fox-Hunting Past and Present" would make for a fantastic addition to collections of hunting literature. Contents include: "Fox Hunting in the Twentieth Century", "The Origin of Fox-Hunting-A Glimpse at Melton to-day and as it was in its Infancy", "The Quorn Hunt", "The Master of Hounds", "The Cost of Hunting", "The Horse and the Country to Select", "Hunters and their Stables", etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. This volume is being republished now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of fox hunting.

Eat Your Spinach provides advice on why and how to save and invest for retirement in the current financial and investment world. It is especially suitable for beginning investors and tells how to save, choose investment advice and how to be your own asset manager.

Young lovers Claire and Derek are on their fourth all inclusive trip away together, first as husband and wife. They enjoy the sun, sand the ocean and a darker enjoyment. Murder! They hunt together for the perfect victim and once they are found its time to get creative. Psychopath lovers perfect for each other in every way. Murder after murder, victim after victim gets more exciting and original.

"Who Can I Love?" can help your child/children to be happier! This book helps children and parents to better understand, accept, and process their feelings in healthy ways. Written in a storybook style, this book provides therapy for parents and young children in cases involving divorce, custody, parental alienation syndrome, and/or feelings of parental displacement. Reading this book separately or together will help both the child/children and the parents to understand that it is "okay" for a child to love the parents, step-parents, and parent-partners without conflict, loyalty-conflicts, anxiety, or fear of loss or upset. Left unresolved, a child often expresses these unhealthy thoughts and feelings with unhealthy behaviors involving anxiety and/or depression. Among commonly-displayed behaviors can be a child''s inability to sleep through the night, reluctance to spend time with a parent, crying, and/or display sadness.

In Richard Howard''s new collection, voices of myth and memory prevail by means of prevarication.

Why contemporary transformations of the military based on networked operations will fail.

Richard Howard is one of America''s most original and innovative poets, and this volume is the first major selection of his work to be published in the UK. It is resplendant with fin de siecle Parisian opulence, brought magnificently to life with impressive verve."

Richard Howard has been writing stylish, deeply informed commentary on modern culture and literature for more than four decades. Here is a selection of his finest essays, including some never before published in book form, on a splendid range of subjects--from American poets like Emily Dickinson and Marianne Moore to French artists such as Rodin and Michel Delacroix. Also included are considerations of modern sculpture and of the photography of the human body. Howard''s intense familiarity with modern poetry is seen to excellent effect in essays on the "poetry of forgetting," on the causes and effects of experimental poetry, and on the first books of poets whose work he helped introduce--among them, J. D. McClatchy, Frank Bidart, and Cynthia MacDonald. Of course, Howard brings to his consideration of French literature a rare wisdom drawn from his celebrated work as a translator of Stendhal and Gide, Barthes and Cocteau, Yourcenar and Gracq. Hilton Kramer once wrote that Richard Howard "performs the essential critical service. He shows us the extent of the terrain. He points out its essential features. And he gives us a very vivid sense of its ethos as well as of its esthetics." Howard, now in his seventy-fifth year, continues his adroit, inventive commentary, which enriches us all.

In a recent conversation with Priscilla Becker published by the Poetry Society of America, Richard Howard commented that, |I don''t like direct self-expression...I am more interested in the dialogue of others than in merely the dialogue with another...the dialogue of the others who are not me.| Among the speakers in The Silent Treatment are Hannah Arendt, George Eliot, Cosima Wagner and a boy in a photograph by Arkansas photographer, Mike Disfarmer.

BONAPARTE''S SONS With the Bourbon monarchy a distant memory, confusion reigns in the French republic of 1795...Facing annihilation on three European fronts, the ruling Directory resorts to enlisting condemned prisoners into the army. Alongside the murderers, rapists and thieves emerge men like Alain Lausard, a military educated aristocrat forced to live as a peasant. Cheating execution for salvation on the battlefield, Lausard turns hardened criminals into a ruthless cavalry unit, spearheading Napoleon Bonaparte''s relentless drive through Piedmont and northern Italy. BONAPARTE''S INVADERS Worn down by the blistering heat of the desert, Alain Lausard''s cavalry unit summons unknown strengths to resist the Arab warrior raids that blight their path towards the Nile. But as they are drawn deeper into forbidding territory, despair and disease, Nelson''s destruction of the French fleet and Bonaparte''s obsessive war-mongering convinces Lausard he will never see Paris again...

Subtitle on cover: The golden age of the Canadian navy in the war against terrorism.

Howard''s title for his new collection is the old name for psychoanalysis, and alludes to the therapeutic powers of speech under controlled circumstances.

Engerman''s introduction to this work recounts how the collection was assembled, how the lessons of the Cold War remain vital to the debate of current events, and how the influence of communism was able to reshape the direction of intellectual life.

This award-winning book explores one of the most successful cultures and society the world has ever seen-capitalism. From its European roots more than 500 years ago to the present, the book examines the problems of capitalism''s expansion, inequality, environmental destruction, and social unrest. Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism provides the reader with the anthropological, economic, and historical framework to understand the origins of global problems, why globalization and the global expansion of the culture of capitalism has generated protest and resistance, and the steps that are necessary to solve global problems. As one reviewer said, "This is a book that will doubtless create debate and controversy, but its topic should be pondered seriously by all who consider themselves citizens of our world society today." For anyone interested in global issues and international affairs.

The 1999 Lambda Literary Award winner in poetry. Glowing full page NYT review.