All But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty.
Schwarcz illustrates how the work of these "men of science" was crucial to Brazil's modernization and to the development of its sense of national destiny."--BOOK JACKET.
Anders Stephanson examines the consequences of this idea over more than three hundred years of history, as Manifest Destiny drove the westward settlement to the Pacific, defining the stubborn belief in the superiority of white people and ...
I performed as a ten- and eleven-year-old in productions of Kikuo Saito at La MaMa Experimental Annex over on East Fourth Street. (I also played Curley in an elementary school production of Oklahoma! and I played Buffalo Bill in Brian ...
Stephen V. Ash's A Massacre in Memphis is a portrait of a Southern city that opens an entirely new view onto the Civil War, slavery, and its aftermath.
Complete with an original introduction by Bradbury, Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes: The Authorized Adaptation reintroduces this thrilling classic.
The Short Stories of Langston Hughes This collection of forty-seven stories written between 1919 and 1963--the most comprehensive available--showcases Langston Hughes's literary blossoming and the development of his personal and artistic ...
Many scholars brush off the Boxer Rebellion as an ill-conceived and easily defeated revolt, but in The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China, the military historian David J. Silbey shows just how close the Boxers came to beating back ...
American Writers in Rebellion, from Mark Twain to Dreiser
In the richly illustrated To Tell the Truth Freely, the historian Mia Bay vividly captures Wells's legacy and life, from her childhood in Mississippi to her early career in late nineteenth-century Memphis and her later life in Progressive ...
David Milne's America's Rasputin provides the first major study of the man who pushed two presidents into Vietnam.
Discusses basic aspects of ornithology, including migration, bird physiology and behavior, flight, and song, as well as field identification, banding, bird grouping, birding localities, and other topics.
"A powerful report of the experiences of a physician living and practicing medicine in the inner city .
A play about the trial of the United States v. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
This is the only biography by a leading American poet of the great American writer, Stephen Crane. John Berryman originally wrote this book in 1950 for the distinguished "American Men of Letters" series, and revised it twelve years later.
Rendered in gorgeous, full-color art by Dennis Calero, Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles: The Authorized Adaptation graphically translates fourteen of Bradbury's famous interconnected science-fiction stories, turning an unforgettable ...
This is particularly true of the computer models that will probably decide the fate of the Snake River salmon. The real contribution of science has been to shift the arena of the argument from the actual river to a virtual river.
It became a destination. Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of that journey, Moonbound tells the monumental story of the moon and the men who went there first.
This is a remarkable work of literature about both the outer forms and the inner meanings of Islam today.
Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes's personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume--and the last book he published--finds the author applying his influential perceptiveness and associative insight to the subject of photography.