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Literary Savannah was among the first in a series of literary travel anthologies published by Hill Street Press when the company was fo

"The Harlem Renaissance Way Down South" had its

Ms. Abinader has written a slice of history that teaches all ofus how a family's desperate fights for survival wins out over thehorrific clashes of clutures.

In the winter of 1939, five-year-old Andrew Bienkowski was banished to Siberia with his family.

Just in time for the 20th anniversary of Spy’s creation comes the definitive anthology, inside story, and scrapbook.

Introducing the ingenious, addictive tool for judging everything under the sun: ENLIGHTENED BRACKETOLOGY, the new science that makes opinion a sport.

In Spectacle the architect David Rockwell, in collaboration with designer Bruce Mau, explores the allure of larger-than-life events that take place around the globe.

For a world of devoted readers, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers.

Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and

As the Western world struggles to comprehend the paradoxes of modern Turkey, a country both European and Asian, forward-looking yet rooted in ancient empire, a new nonfiction anthology promises to

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Leading animal rights activist Gene Baur examines the real cost of the meat on our plates - for both humans and animals alike - in this provocative and thorough examination of the modern fa

Did you know Thomas Jefferson’s grandson was an ax murderer? Don’t you delight in knowing some dinosaurs were teeny tiny as hens?

Personality Not Included is a fun new book about the secret to making your organization more authentic, whether you are the boss, an employee, a small business or an entrepreneur.  It has over 100 ex

This study argues that modern anti-Semitism is a by-product of tensions between received Classical conceptions of masculinity and Christianity's strident critique of that ideal.

Thousands of years ago Atlantis suddenly crumbled apart and sank into the sea. Its existence is now a mere legend and the Atlanteans would like to keep it that way.

Ali G: How many words does you know? Noam Chomsky: Normally, humans, by maturity, have tens of thousands of them. Ali G: What is some of 'em? ...

This is an eye-opening expose, revealing a sometimes funny but more often disturbing world of fanaticism and extremism.

An oral history of the modern punk-revival's West Coast Birthplace, co-authored by Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor

Called a "comics expert" by the San Jose Mercury News, Oliver Chin creates a compelling blend of ...

A failed engagement and a partnership in a new e-learning firm have led thirty-six-year-ol

1989. Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. An Italian mob murders a black teenager named Yusuf Hawkins. That same night, across the Hudson River in New Jersey, Lisa and Marc meet at a party. Lisa's black.

Since his death in 1977 Elvis Presley has become an even greater cultural icon than when he was making records and consuming deep-fried peanut-butter-and-banana sandwiches.

An old school pot smuggler emerges from prison with one goal: to reunite with the love of his life.

When Patricia, the Italian-American, marries Gregori, the “gorgeous” Greek, she spends almost two decades in a sometimes tragic, sometimes uproarious pursuit of ‘Happily-Ever-After’.

Bumping About Brittany is a guidebook with a difference, a series of excursions into the cultural, physical and emotional heartland of Brittany that can be followed up on the ground or simply consu

Queen Ida. Danny Poullard. Documentary filmmaker Les Blank. Chris Strachwitz and Arhoolie Records.

Musical instruments are, from one perspective, a technology designed for use by humans that can be deployed in a variety of cultural contexts.

This is Jenny Diski at her essayistic best in a highly personal and entertaining exploration of the twentieth century’s most colourful decade.

A guide to the foods of the coastal Pacific Northwest during a period in my life when my economic outlook was somewhat subdued and when my wive and I ate well because of friends who introduced as t

A comprehensive guide to a state that is difficult to comprehend -- with the Pacific Ocean and a temperate rain forest in the west, and dry sagebrush steppes in the east, and with tall snow-capped pea

http://www.thepossibilityofeverything.com

"Chosen - Not Cursed!", is a treatise on Biblical Black History. It dismisses the myth that blacks are a cursed race.

This book deals with the present effects of bondage that comes through systems that benefit by the categorization and enslavement of people, especially black people.

Every ethnic group has unique and varied talents that are innately given to us by God.  There comes an appointed time when God, who gave the gifts and talents, has need of them and gives opportuni

And every week, there was the unspoken question, the one I didn’t know enough to ask myself : Have you found her yet? The one who reminds you of you?

Freak Shows and the Modern American Imagination examines the artistic use of freakishness between 1900 and 1950, mapping its rather sudden shift from a highly profitable form of entertainment

Grateful Dead fans are legendary for their Dead-ication to the band and its enduring legacy of freewheeling musical exploration.

"As an Ioway Indian, [Lance Foster] is interested in the landscape as it was when his ancestor

My essay "A Closing Circle: Musings on the Ioway Indians in Iowa" is in The Worlds Between Two Rivers: Perspectives on American Indians in Iowa (An Expanded Edition), Edited by Gretchen

The University of Alabama Press says about the book: "

Presents the diverse histories of Spanish-speaking minorities in the U.S., including Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Cubans and the many others, and analyzes the processes drawing people from over 20 differe

PAVE YOUR WAY TO ENLIGHTENMENT  

900+ translated haiku, all on the sea cucumber and most over a hundred years old, with a good me

Ever since she was a child, Sharon Glassman wanted to celebrate her first Christmas. But it never happened. Then she heard about the U.S.

Contributors Al Burt, Archie Carr, Susan Cerulean, (editor) Charles Fergus, Jan Godown, Paul N.

Based on my four years' experience as a volunteer in a homeless women’s shelter, The Women Outside examines the social context and psychology of homeless women together with the images and

allman first read William James's seminal book The Varieties of Religious Experience in college

Creating True Peace is both a profound work of spiritual guidance and a practical blueprint for peaceful inner change and global change.

My Soul is A Witness explores the rich legacy of African American sacred music, focusing on the theological import of this music born of oppression.

The bad news: there probably isn’t a thin person inside you waiting to get out.

 An exercise in urban archeology, an original interpretive account of the golden age of the New York luxury apartment house.

Charlotte Greenwood never intended to become a comedienne, but she was unfashionably tall at 5’ 10" and her early aspirations to become a great dramatic actress eventually led her to the field

"In almost 80 movies," wrote Hollywood biographer Donald Spoto, "she was a pixie with a canny charm.

Edited and translated by Nguyen Do and Paul Hoover, the anthology contains poetry by seventeen leading contemporary Vietnamese poets and four Vietnamese-American poets (Linh Dinh, Mong-Lan, Hoa Ngu

Life. Beauty. Womanhood. That's what tattoos today are all about. ...

Miyamoto Musashi's Book of Five Rings is well known as a book of strategy.  However, Musashi himself was a martial artist -  the greatest warrior Japan has ever known - and the Five

With poems that are "as entertaining as they are compelling" (Greg Pape) The Gravity Soundtrack will please both veteran readers of poetry and those who've never before picked up

Buckle up as Douglas Keister takes you for a decidedly retro ride in the world of diminutive travel trailers in Teardrops and Tiny Trailers.

The accused: 13-year-old Derek King and his 12-year-old brother, Alex, Sunday school students with choirboy looks.

HIS GOAL: TO KILL AN "EVEN FIFTY"

From a midnight cab-yard kitchen on the streets of San Francisco to the makeshift kitchens crammed in the racing pits of NASCAR, hidden kitchens are everywhere.

What you don't know won't hurt you is a lie.

Fact:  one-third of all the immigrants to America returned to their country of origin.  Although many of them came intending to go home once they had earned seed money to establish themselves i

What Happens When the World Doesn't End? is an eclectic collection of 20 short stories.

A MAN WALKS INTO A BAR...is the result of 20 years of research. It is, quite simply, the definitive single-volume collection of modern American adult humor. 700 pages.

The Hallelujah Love series begins with Sex In The Sanctuary, and the friendship between two women who just happen to be preacher's wives.

Filmmaker and Film critic Donald Richie has been observing and writing about Japan from the moment he arrived in Tokyo on New Year's Day, 1947.

Madison reviews Peter Gabel's The Bank Teller and Other Essays on the Politics of Meaning.

"Questions are posed," writes Norman Mailer, "in the hope they will open into richer insights, which in turn will bring forth sharper questions." In this series of conversations, J

Ever since the days of the gold rush and the pioneers, California has been a ‘far out’ place, quite different from the rest of America.

Bloomsbury Pie examines the persistent allure of Bloomsbury (the circle around Virginia Woolf)--a fascination driven by nostalgia, adoration, and antipathy--and tracks the resurgence of interest in th

"When Adrienne Mayor's first book,...

The biography of a 19th-century Mormon pioneer who became a celebrity after she was captured, raised, and tattooed on the face by Southwest Indians, then ransomed back five years later. ...

Chronicles the history of women and tattoo in Western society from the early 1880s to the present.

Manifest Destiny, as a term for westward expansion, was not used until the 1840s.

A SEASON WITH THE INFAMOUS FANS OF THE FOOTBALL TEAM EVERYONE LOVES TO HATE

The smart, sassy guide to embracing your inner Angry Black Woman. 

During the twentieth century, Americans have gone to war, abolished child labor, given women the right to vote, and created civil rights legislation.

“I wish that The Supervillain Book could be required reading so that all the bizarre knowledge that fans like me have on the subject would be shared by everyone.” – Alex Ross, artist

Calling All Superheroes The first encyclopedic reference work that profiles superheroes from all companies and in all media, The Superhero Book is the ultimate A-Z compendium.

Counterculture, while commonly use

Witten by Charles Carney and Gina Misiroglu Foreword by Danny DeVito Photographs by Bruce W. Talamon

As a launching pad for inquisitive young minds and a life raft for parents at wits end, this collection addresses a critical part of being a kid: asking questions. 

¿Dónde estará Nochecita? ¿Detrás de los montes será? ¿En el huerto de moras quizás?