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Jean-Jacques Rousseau was an 18th century literary writer whose works on politics had a direct influence on the French and American revolutions, whose educational analysis affected the world of schooling, and whose Confessions fostered the art of autobiography: the many facets of his original writings and influences which produced them are revealed in Leo Damrosch 's Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genuis (0618446966, $30.00), the first single-volume biography of Rousseau published in English for the general reader. The focus on his last decade of life--also his most productive and paranoid years--makes for the gripping legacy of a troubled genius. American Heritage's Guide To Contemporary Usage And Style (0618604995, $19.95) answers hundreds of questions about usage, covering everything from commonly confused words and differences between scientific and lay uses of words to controversial pronunciations, grammar rules, formal and informal writing, and more. With it's A-Z dictionary format, Guide To Contemporary Usage And Style offers authoritative and simple details on modern usage and the controversies which surround it.