NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE ONE OF TIMES TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMESS 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this ...
An investigative account of the medical, sexual, and scientific questions surrounding the spread of AIDS across the country.
A fascinating account of the phenomenon known as the Black Death, this volume offers a wealth of documentary material focused on the initial outbreak of the plague that ravaged the world in the 14th century.
Using the diary she kept as a teenager and through news accounts, Melba Pattillo Beals relives the harrowing year when she was selected as one of the first nine students to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.
American author and activist HELEN ADAMS KELLER (1880-1968) became famous thanks to *The Story of My Life,* which was later adapted for stage and screen in various incarnations under the title *The Miracle Worker,* a reference to that ...
By showing that the modern attitude is the result of a process of accretion begun 200 years ago, this book describes the development behind Japanese ideas of Jews and how these images are reflected in their modern intellectual life
John Stuart Mill's 1869 essay The Subjection of Women argues for equality between the sexes, putting forward ideas that were an affront to many at the time. His wife, Harriet Taylor Mill, is credited with co-authoring the essay.
Based on more than a decade of original interviews with DJs, b-boys, graffitti writers, gang members and rappers, and featuring unforgettable portraits of many of Hip Hop's forbears and mavericks, this book chronicles the rise and rise of ...
When the first edition of this book was published in 1957, the art of making a tipi was almost lost, even among American Indians.
This is the first book in English to relate the history of Damascus, bringing out the crucial role the city has played at many points in the region's past.