Stories explore moments of revelation that change the course of ordinary lives, times in which characters of all ages find their familiar world dissolving around them
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.
[]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 ...
Embark on the literary journey of a lifetime with PORTABLE LEGACIES: FICTION, POETRY, DRAMA, NONFICTION!
This book deals with cases from the Holocaust, World War II, the Viet Nam war, with indigenous peoples, with children of cancer victims.
Karl Friday examines samurai martial culture from a historical and worldview in this study.
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...
... is seen cutting footage of Dustin Hoffman's performance; the film's producer, David Picker, arrives, urging Fosse to speed up the editing process; and Valerie Perrine calls Fosse in his hospital room. Fosse's agent, Sam Cohn, ...
What would it mean to “get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of mental manacles that hold us back from imagining a postracist America?
In this book,Kristin Ruppel considers the complicated issues surrounding American Indianland ownership in the United States.