After spending six months apart in Book Two, best friends Lydia and Julie are reunited at last! Julie has said good-bye to the mean girls, and Lydia is ready to apply her hard-earned friendship lesson
More than fifty years ago, on a trip dubbed “the Southern Journey,” Alan Lomax visited Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Tennessee, uncovering the little-known southern backcountr
Go inside the financial crisis with Wall Street legend Barton BiggsBarton Biggs is a Wall Street legend, trusted by investors around the globe. Now, in his fourth book, Biggs is back, offering savvy i
In industry circles, musicians from Kentucky are known to possess an enviable pedigree -- a lineage as prized as the bloodline of any bluegrass-raised Thoroughbred. With native sons and daughters like
There is no Classical Yucatecan Maya word for "myth." But around the close of the seventeenth century, an anonymous Maya scribe penned what he called u kahlay cab tu kinil, "the world history of the e
Beginning in poverty and a broken home, Wesley McNair went on, through family hardships and setbacks, to become what Philip Levine has called "one of the great storytellers of contemporary poetry." Th
Judaism itself is a language, a group's way of expressing beliefs, longings, aspirations and dreams. The vocabularyof Jewish life is the framework that Jews useto hand their past to their children. It
The inspirational, true story of how Frederick Douglass found his way to freedom one word at a time.This picture book biography chronicles the youth of Frederick Douglass, one of the most prominent Af
Includes nearly 700 quotations by Frederick Douglass that demonstrate the breadth and strength of his intellect as well as the eloquence with which he expressed his political and ethical principles.
Eleven international academics and independent scholars contribute ten essays examining the poetry and novels of Caribbean/Black British author and academic David Dabydeen (literary studies, U. of War
After spending six months apart in Book Two, best friends Julie and Lydia are reunited at last! Julie has said good-bye to the mean girls, and Lydia is ready to apply her hard-earned friendship lesson
Journalist and cultural critic James Sullivan tells the story of Alternative America from the 1950s to the present in this definitive biography of the Catholic boy for whom nothing was sacred: George
Through conversations with 30 artists from four generations, Yashodhara Dalmia maps the social, cultural, and historical matrix of art and art creation in India spread over the last 60 years. Spanning
An astute observer of history, Theodore Roosevelt was a hanging judge who did not hesitate to render harsh verdicts about leaders and events from America's past. His razor-sharp opinions cut to the co
What would my mom say? How would she guide me? These are the soul searching questions answered in A Mother’s Wisdom, a compilation of inspirational, spiritual and practical insights.A Mother’s Wisdom
Gathers statements from children around the world and twenty noteworthy adults--including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Walter Cronkite, and Frances Moore Lappae--on behavior, peace and interpersonal relat
For scholars of various aspects of the humanities and cultural history, 21 contributions offer multifaceted analyses of the phenomenon of war. The contributors represent a broad range of disciplines,
?Dirty Words: The Rhetoric of Public Sex Education, 1870-1924, details the approaches and outcomes of sex-education initiatives in the Progressive Era. In analyzing the rhetorical strategies of sex ed
Dirty Words: The Rhetoric of Public Sex Education, 1870-1924, details the approaches and outcomes of sex-education initiatives in the Progressive Era. In analyzing the rhetorical strategies of sex-ed
The technological realm provides an unusually active laboratory not only for new ideas and products but also for the remarkable linguistic innovations that accompany and describe them. How else would
"Scott C. Greenwood breathes new life into vocabulary and comprehension instruction. His methods demonstrate instruction strategies far beyond worksheets and writing sentences. He enables students to
"Scott C. Greenwood breathes new life into vocabulary and comprehension instruction. His methods demonstrate instruction strategies far beyond worksheets and writing sentences. He enables students to
George Carlin's comic material represents the most enduring legacy of the countercultural revolution of the 1960s. If acid rock, Victorian clothing, Aquarian spirituality, and radical pranksterism ha
This authoritative entry in the acclaimed Great Expectations series makes it easy for parents to give their babies and toddlers the best, most wholesome and natural food possible.The way a baby is nur
