Scholars, creative writers, poets, translators, and biographers contribute 34 essays on American writer Bishop (1911-79). Their concerns include her crucial and troubled relationship with her birthpla
The Great Good Place argues that "third places" - where people can gather, put aside the concerns of work and home, and hang out simply for the pleasures of good company and lively conversation - are
Spanning the years 1840-1875, Beyond the Boundaries focuses on the settlement of Upper Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, telling the story of reluctant pioneers who attempted to establish a decent measur
This collection brings together twenty-seven essays by influential literary and cultural historians, as well as representatives of the vanguard of postmodernist economics. Contributors include: Jean-J
Paul visits a city park through the seasons and observes Mallard ducks as they develop from egg to duckling to fledgling, in a new title of a nature series that features flaps with interesting facts h
In a new addition to a nature series which features interesting facts hidden under flaps, Jenny watches a pond through spring and summer and witnesses six stages in the life cycle of a Leopard Frog.
In Le Corbusier's Formative Years we learn what made Le Corbusier the person, and the designer that he was. Using twenty years of research, H. Allen Brooks has unearthed an incredible wealth of docume
This book is the first to chronicle the opening of an era, and Lewis Portnoy's photos complement the descriptive text by Anderw Podnieks.There are essays and anecdotes about the development of the la
This sixth volume in a series presenting data on passengers of Russian nationality who emigrated to the US from Russian territories between 1875 and 1910 covers the period between August 1890 and June
Twenty papers examine the church, town, abbey and medieval manuscripts of Bury St Edmunds. From a British Archaeological Association conference in Bury in 1994. The authors include Oliver Rackham, Ric
Twenty papers examine the church, town, abbey and medieval manuscripts of Bury St Edmunds. From a British Archaeological Association conference in Bury in 1994. The authors include Oliver Rackham, Ric
Germans to America provides both genealogists and researchers of family history with the first extensive, indexed source of German-surname immigrants who came to all ports in the United States between
Germans to America provides both genealogists and researchers of family history with the first extensive, indexed source of German-surname immigrants who came to all ports in the United States between
‘I Could not look on Death, which being known, Men led me to him, blindfold and Alone.’ (Epitaphs of the war: ‘The Coward’) Thus, in two short, bitter lines, Rudyard Kipling summed up a series of eve
The ravages of war in Afghanistan have destroyed much of that country's precious archaeological heritage, so that reports such as this may be the only record of the sites they describe.
Cruikshank (co-founder of a Boston communications consulting firm) and Sicilia (business history, U. of Maryland) tell the inspiring model business tale based upon interviews and archival sources of h
The first three novels in the bestselling Mitford series feature Father Tim Cavanaugh, his wife Cynthia, and all the characters that have made Mitford a very real place in the hearts of readers everyw
In Le Corbusier's Formative Years we learn what made Le Corbusier the person, and the designer that he was. Using twenty years of research, H. Allen Brooks has unearthed an incredible wealth of docume
Germans to America provides both genealogists and researchers of family history with the first extensive, indexed source of German-surname immigrants who came to all ports in the United States between
Germans to America provides both genealogists and researchers of family history with the first extensive, indexed source of German-surname immigrants who came to all ports in the United States between
This title brings together twenty-five writings by women who share their rich and varied World War II experiences, from serving in the military to working on the home front to preparing for the postwa
A saucy guide to survival in everyday French. With chapters on insults, sex, drink and those expressive Gallic gestures, this book reveals the necessary vocabulary, explains its proper use and gives e
The work translated here is Ocherki po etnografii aleutov (konets XVIII-pervaia polovina XIX v.) (Leningrad: Nauka, 1975), one of Roza G. Liapunova's two monographs on the Aleuts of Alaska. Liapunova
La Colombe d’Or hotel and restaurant in the South of France is known all over the world as a privileged place where the Provencal art de vivre goes hand in hand with an astonishing private COLLECTION
Germans to America provides both genealogists and researchers of family history with the first extensive, indexed source of German-surname immigrants who came to all ports in the United States between
Germans to America provides both genealogists and researchers of family history with the first extensive, indexed source of German-surname immigrants who came to all ports in the United States between
Contains papers from the May 1995 conference, in sections on boiling inception and subcooled boiling, saturated convective boiling, critical heat flux and transition-film boiling, multicomponent boili
