[]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 ...
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.
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.
Karl Friday examines samurai martial culture from a historical and worldview in this study.
Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic
Desperate to rid herself of a house she recently inherited, Alicia Clayton attempts to destroy it, but all the people she employs are suddenly found murdered, when Repairman Jack enters the scene and the mystery of the house begins to ...
This book deals with cases from the Holocaust, World War II, the Viet Nam war, with indigenous peoples, with children of cancer victims.
Hidden aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise is a secret that has been passed from captain to captain.
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. --
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.