The winners of the 2009 National Book Awards have been announced. Here is a list of the winners.Fiction: by Colum McCann (Random House)Nonfiction: by T. J. Stiles (Alfred A. Knopf)Poetry: by Keith Waldrop (University of California Press) Young People's Literature:

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This volume, based upon a conference held at the City University of New York in September 2005, brings together leading researchers and thinkers such as Peter Fonagy, Mary Target, Otto Kernberg, Glen Gabbard, Sidney Blatt, Donnel Stern

Winner of four major awards, this updated edition of Joan Jacobs Brumberg's Fasting Girls, presents a history of women's food-refusal dating back as far as the sixteenth century. Here is a tableau of female self-denial: medieval martyrs who used

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In direct opposition to the Freudian drive theory, the author of the best-selling The Drama Of The Gifted Child believes that children, at birth, are inherently good, and she traces all forms of criminal deeds to past mistreatments.

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From Peter Kay to Andy Williams Mark Sanderson selects the best of the season's celebrity memoirs

Martin Gayford luxuriates in a selection of art books covering every age and style

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