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Harold Bloom - Stephen King (2006).jpg
This title, Stephen King, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Views series, examines the major works of Stephen King through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on Stephen King, a ...
Laurie A. Sterling - Bloom's How to Write About Herman Melville (2008).jpg
Although he spent much of his career in obscurity, Herman Melville, the author of classics such as "Moby-Dick", "Billy Budd", and "Bartleby, the Scrivener," has since become known as one of America's greatest writers. "How to Write about Herman Melville" offers valuable ...
Klaus Benesch; Kerstin Schmidt - Space in America.jpg
Space in America Theory History Culture America's sense of space has always been tied to what Hayden White called the "narrativization" of real events. If the awe-inspiring manifestations of nature in America (Niagara Falls, Virginia's Natural Bridge, the Grand Canyon, ...
Dennis W. Belcher - The 10th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War.jpg
The 10th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry waged battle for the Union for three years during the Civil War, ranging from its home state to Atlanta. This work is filled with personal accounts, including 25 war-time letters written by the men of the regiment, and official ...
Laura Dassow Walls - The Passage to Cosmos.jpg
Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended with Darwin. With Cosmos, the book that crowned his career, Humboldt offered to the world his vision of humans and nature as ...
U.S. Army Staff - Handbook of Ordnance Data (1918).jpg
An illustrated guide to the major types of arms and ammunition to the Western Allies in 1918.In the book:"Original project in United States . The provision of ordnance repair facilities for the American forces in France was the purpose contemplated by the Chief of Ordnance ...
Laurence J. Kotlikoff.jpg
In 2030, as 77 million baby boomers hobble into old age, walkers will outnumber strollers; there will be twice as many retirees as there are today but only 18 percent more workers. How will America handle this demographic overload? How will Social Security and Medicare ...
Erika Lenkert - Frommer's Portable California Wine Country 2006).jpg
Lush, opulent pinot noir; rich, robust zinfandel; fruity, full-bodied Chardonnay—you can sample them all in California's Napa and Sonoma Valleys, which together comprise one of the world's premier wine regions. Completely up-to-date, Frommer's Portable ...
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With nearly 13 million visitors in 2008, the original Disneyland park still ranks as one of America′s Top 25 Visited Sites according to Forbes Traveler.Disneyland Park® continues to expand with new attractions based on the successful Pixar films– adding in 2009 the ...
Ellen Wohl - Disconnected Rivers.jpg
This important and accessible book surveys the history and present condition of river systems across the United States, showing how human activities have impoverished our rivers and impaired the connections between river worlds and other ecosystems.Ellen Wohl begins ...
Suellen Hoy - Chasing Dirt.jpg
Americans in the early 19th century were, as one foreign traveller bluntly put it, "filthy, bordering on the beastly"--perfectly at home in dirty, bug-infested, malodorous surroundings. Many a home swarmed with flies, barnyard animals, dust, and dirt; clothes were ...
Dennis S. Ippolito - Why Budgets Matter.jpg
Much of what government does depends on money. From the nation's founding until today, conflicts over the powers to tax, spend, and borrow have been at the heart of American politics. Why Budgets Matter is a comprehensive account of how these conflicts over budget policy ...
Loren R. Cass - The Failures of American And European Climate Policy.jpg
Examines why some nations, but not others, have met their commitments to international climate treaties.In this timely work, Loren R. Cass argues that international norms and normative debates provide the keys to understanding the evolution of both domestic and ...
The New Americans - Yukio Kawano - Social Determinants of Immigrant Selection.jpg
Self-selection theory predicts that skilled workers move to countries with more unequal labor markets, and unskilled workers to countries with more equal ones. However, this thesis alone fails to consider the structural process of uprooting in the sending countries and ...
John G. Gunnell - Imagining the American Polity.jpg
Americans have long prided themselves on living in a country that serves as a beacon of democracy to the world, but from the time of the founding they have also engaged in debates over what the criteria for democracy are as they seek to validate their faith in the United States as ...
Lanita Jacobs-Huey - From the Kitchen to the Parlor.jpg
When is hair "just hair" and when is it not "just hair"? Documenting the politics of African American women's hair, this multi-sited linguistic ethnography explores everyday interaction in beauty parlors, Internet discussions, comedy clubs, and other contexts to ...
Joshua Kosman - The Buyout of America.jpg
An authoritative exposé of the mysterious and potentially dangerous world of private equityFew people realize that the top private equity firms, such as Blackstone Group, Carlyle Group, and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, have become the nation's largest employers through ...
Keally D. Mcbride - Collective Dreams.jpg
How do we go about imagining different and better worlds for ourselves? Collective Dreams looks at ideals of community, frequently embraced as the basis for reform across the political spectrum, as the predominant form of political imagination in America today. ...
Norval Morris.jpg
Across the country prisons are jammed to capacity and, in extreme cases, barges and mobile homes are used to stem the overflow. Probation officers in some cities have caseloads of 200 and more--hardly a manageable number of offenders to track and supervise. And with about ...
The New Americans - Jill S. Reichman - Immigration.jpg
Reichman’s debunks the myth of the cognitive and behavioral intransigence of first generation Mexican immigrants. Focusing on health care, she reveals the flexibility of female immigrants’ beliefs about health and illness. She demonstrates how the rate of ...
Ann DuCille - The Coupling Convention.jpg
What does the tradition of marriage mean for people who have historically been deprived of its legal status? Generally thought of as a convention of the white middle class, the marriage plot has received little attention from critics of African-American literature. In ...
Arthur David Kahn - Experiment in Occupation.jpg
As a participant in many of the events he writes about in Experiment in Occupation, Arthur Kahn offers a richly detailed account of the process by which the fight against Nazism came to be transformed into the Cold War. His story reveals how those in the Military Government of ...
Harry Browne - Why Government Doesn't Work (1995).jpg
A platform summation by the libertarian candidate for president states that big government is ineffective and behind most of American society's ills and proposes a redefined government that will improve such areas as education, violence, and taxes.Harry Browne, the ...