Considering one of the largely neglected groups in immigration history, Small Strangers recounts and interprets the varied experiences of immigrant children to illustrate how immigration, urbanization, and industrialization—all related processes—molded modern America.
Shows that the experiences of depression-era children help us understand the course of 1930s as well as the history of American childhood.
Presents a study of Orden Nash's life and the role that poetry, especially comic verse, played in modern American literary culture.
A fresh and contemporary translation of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People by Nicholas Rudall.
Brooks chronicles the peaceful children's invasion of America that occurred from Dr. Spock to Woodstock. The author explores the home life, leisure activities, and school environment of children who grew up during the Cold War years.
Working from a vast combined experience in professional baseball, the authors have broken down the elements of mental toughness into an easily understood package. Not only baseball players but other athletes as well as managers, coaches, and parents can learn how elements like...
Presents a collection of essays that ranges over literature and ideas, from Shakespeare to Marx, from the breakdown of Islam to the legalization of drugs, and more. This book attempts to restore our faith in the central importance of literature and criticism to our civilization.
A book based on the experiences of the author, a psychotherapist and counselor to children who are suffering with or dying of cancer, and... Læs mere
The first full and authoritative biography of the father of gastronomy. MacDonogh not only chronicles Brillat's many pursuits, he also presents a fascinating... Læs mere
An intimate personal and political history of Lyndon Johnson's frustration with the Kennedy mystique, based on exhaustive new research. Solidly... Læs mere
In conversations with the poet-biographer Felix Chuev, Molotov offers an incomparable view of the politics of Soviet society and the nature of Kremlin... Læs mere
The house of Belgium and its many houses-institutional and personal, literal and metaphoric-captured in a blend of... Læs mere