The Civil War threatens to destroy the romance between a Harvard-educated Cherokee Indian and the daughter of a Union officer, in a fast-paced novel by the best-selling author of The Proud and the Free. Lit Guild & Doubleday.
[]ames Alan McPherson, Railroad: Trains and Train People in American Culture (New York: Random House, 1976), p. 9.] This possibility came from the locomotive's drive and thrust, its promise of unrestrained mobility and unlimited freedom ...
After her family is killed, Spirit White is taken to Oakhurst Academy, a combination orphanage and school for those with magical powers, where she and her new friends investigate when students start mysteriously disappearing.
This elegant book--theoretically precise, empirically robust, and analytically savvy--will become the standard by which all subsequent scholarship on the sociology of immigration will be measured.
Karl Friday examines samurai martial culture from a historical and worldview in this study.
This book deals with cases from the Holocaust, World War II, the Viet Nam war, with indigenous peoples, with children of cancer victims.
The Normal Heart, written by the gay activist Larry Kramer, and As Is by William Hoffman opened in New York in early 1985, only a month apart from each other. Both plays 68 Legacies of Plague in Literature, Theory and Film.
With selections ranging from popular, traditional, and contemporary works by authors at home to masterpieces of world literature, this text offers opportunities to question, observe, probe, connect, and critique. --
Yet , despite the criticisms from the right wing of his own party , the overall response to Clinton's address was better than either politicians or pundits 60. See discussion of place - based affirmative action in Paul M. Barrett and ...
This is an outstanding entryway into the rich and deep world of Christian mysticism, recommended for readers of all backgrounds." - Michael Sells (Professor of Comparative Religions, Haverford College).
Derrick Bell is perhaps best known for the principled stand he took at Harvard in 1990 when he quit his tenured position on the law-school faculty to protest the school's...