The clearest picture we have of what life is like for men and women who have been diagnosed HIV positive, based upon unique in-depth interviews and remarkable for its candor. “An unforgettable picture of what extremity looks like and how it is dealt with.”—Clifford Geertz.
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 8th edition of this notably successful college text. The concise nature of the Synopsis makes it easily compatible with the instructor’s course emphases. Available in a complete or two-volume edition.
The 8th edition of this notably successful college text. The concise nature of the Synopsis makes it easily compatible with the instructor’s course emphases. Available in a complete or two-volume edition.
The 8th edition of this notably successful college text. The concise nature of the Synopsis makes it easily compatible with the instructor’s course emphases. Available in a complete or two-volume edition.
The causes and consequences of the 1962 crisis as well as a day-by-day narrative of the confrontation, based on up-to-date scholarship and newly released documents. American Ways Series.
Part of the "American Ways" series, this work presents the history of jazz. Exploring the music, the musicians, and the audience, It traces the emergence of jazz and follows its progress, showing how it has reflected shifting American values.
A compact, remarkably successful narrative history of the civil rights movement, 1954–1968, chronicling the major events, describing the key players, and showing how the revolution transformed the American South. American Ways Series.
A new, succinct history of American expansion from the Revolution to the Civil War, showing how an aggressive foreign policy went hand in hand with the rise of nationalism.
The life and culture of Hapsburg Vienna before World War I—the city of Freud, Schoenberg, Klimt, and Wittgenstein, whose philosophy announced the birth of the modern era. “An independent work...challenging, new, and useful.”—New York Times Book Review.
An entertaining, abundantly illustrated history of a Chicago landmark, inspired by Daniel Burnham and a feat of engineering, now a grand locale for public recreation.
Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter in order to ensure the good fortune of his forces in the Trojan War is, despite its heroic background, in many respects a domestic tragedy. Plays for Performance Series.