"Raoul Felder, a take-no-prisoners divorce attorney, draws from his experience to show readers how to avoid an acrimonious divorce and move on with life

"There is nothing better than a good marriage. But when a marriage goes bad, there is no better option than divorce to give men and women a chance to start over. Handled wisely, divorce can be a beginning, not an end. It is the doorway to a new life free of hurt, anger, and resentment.

Felder and Victor cover each phase of divorce, from knowing when to call it quits, to choosing a lawyer, to the final decree. They explore prenuptial contracts, mediation, alimony, child custody, same-sex marriage, and life after divorce. They also share some of the most important facts one should know such as:

- The first offer a woman gets when divorce negotiations begin is usually the best. - In all divorces, income rather than assets determine who pays what to whom. - Divorce is about compromise. Divorce court is not a boxing ring.

After years of watching how divorce can go tragically wrong, Felder uses his expert knowledge, including case histories from his list of celebrity clients, to suggest how to make divorce more fair, civilized, and painless.

Based on exclusive interviews with military leaders, exporters of opium and heroin, foreign business investors, apologists for the regime, and former prisoners and victims of torture, as well as with many of the current players, The Lady is the first full account of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's role in the struggle against the military junta that has controlled Burma since 1988. Barbara Victor exposes one of the most violent and corrupt governments in the world today, exploring the ongoing brutal conflict perpetrated by the Union Solidarity and Development Association—previously known as the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC)—who refuse to recognize the majority support for the National League for Democracy (NLD), led by Aung San Suu Kyi.

Until 1988, Aung San Suu Kyi lived a quiet life in England as the wife of an Oxford don and the mother of two teenage sons. It was only when she returned to Burma to care for her dying mother that she found herself drawn into the movement to end the human rights violations and political unrest that had become the status quo. Carrying the heroic banner of her father, General Aung San, who in the 1940s negotiated Burma's independence from the British and was assassinated on the eve of the Burmese return to self-government, Aung San Suu Kyi has been a pivotal figure in bringing to international attention a regime that maintains power through torture, terror, and summary executions.

Fourteen years after her return to the country of her birth and after a total of more than eight years under house arrest, unable to be with her dying husband in England and separated from her two growing sons, the woman known even to her enemies as "the Lady" continues to struggle for democracy.

This edition includes a new afterword by the author that covers events from the time of the original publication in 1998 to Aung San Suu Kyi's most recent release from house arrest in May 2002.

Every 18 seconds, a woman in America is beaten by her husband or boyfriend. Felder and Victor present a chilling examination of the epidemic of brutal crimes against women in America--and the specific, practical, essential solutions for bringing it to an end.