How a system designed to help children is instead helping to destroy them. Mr. Murphy charges that the child welfare bureaucracy is stuck in hundred-year-old realities and the politics of the 1960s and 1970s.
The classic drama of a daughter's revenge of her father's murder, in a brilliant new translation for modern audiences. Plays for Performance Series.
Documents from the late FBI director's secret files reveal for the first time the shocking extent of FBI activities in spying on prominent Americans and political groups.
The all-too-brief period of relative tranquility that extended from the end of the Cold War to the beginning of the War on Terror is the... Læs mere
Inspired and inspirational, worldly wise, deeply felt, and often delightfully funny, here in one compact volume are 100 of the greatest poems written in English over the last century, memorable masterpieces that everyone should know and enjoy.
In this book, Donald Critchlow has selected excerpts from nine of the most widely read books from the powerful genre of Gulag literature.
Euripides' powerful investigation of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it is an argument for moderation, rejecting the lures of pure reason as well as pure sensuality. Plays for Performance Series.
In "Sunstroke", Hettlinger has selected the well-known "The Gentleman from San Francisco" and 24 other stories by Bunin, and translated them afresh. The collection includes, among others, "Raven", "Cold Fall", "Muza", "Styopa", "Antigone", "In Paris" and "Late Hour".
For years Raymond-Raoul Lambert's Diary has been among the important untranslated records of the experience of French Jews in the Holocaust. Lambert's Diary survived the war... Læs mere
The first study to take a comprehensive, historically comparative view of disillusionment with Communist systems and ideologies. "An indispensable portrait."—Harvey Klehr.