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  • - In a New Translation by Nicholas Rudal
    af Euripides
    89,95 - 202,95 kr.

    Euripides' powerful investigation of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it is an argument for moderation, rejecting the lures of pure reason as well as pure sensuality. Plays for Performance Series.

  • af B. Travern
    291,95 kr.

    This first English translation of Trozas, the fourth of Traven's legendary Jungle North, brings to completion his epic of the birth of the Mexican Revolution.

  • af E.A. Sophocles
    113,95 - 205,95 kr.

    The classic drama of a daughter's revenge of her father's murder, in a brilliant new translation for modern audiences. Plays for Performance Series.

  • af Walter Sullivan
    183,95 kr.

    Selections from the Civil War diaries and memoirs of twenty-three Southern women form an account of the war as it was lived and endured on the domestic front in the South.

  • af Molière
    89,95 - 205,95 kr.

    Moliere's beloved comedy features a rising member of the middle class who lusts for social status and higher learning.

  • - The Game's Greatest Writer on the Game's Greatest Years
    af Red Smith
    183,95 - 234,95 kr.

    In this bountiful selection of his most memorable columns, baseball fans can recapture some of baseball's greatest moments and unforgettable characters.

  • - Tales of My Life in Baseball
    af Donald Honing
    240,95 kr.

    "If you were much of a boy growing up in the Maspeth section of Queens in the late 1930s and 1940s, you had the baseball fever. It seemed contagious, but it struck mostly from within. . . . Often, in later years, when I was writing a long series of books on the game, some well-intended philistine would ask to have explained to him the fascination with baseball. I offered my stock answer: 'If you have to ask the question, you'll never understand the answer.'" With this small confession Donald Honig begins his charming memoir of a life devoted to the charms of baseball, including the many great figures of the game he has known in the past half-century.

  • - 50th Anniversary Reminiscences of the Fire No One Can Forget
    af John Kuenster
    192,95 kr.

    On a terrible day in December 1958, one of the deadliest fires in American history took the lives of ninety-two children and three nuns at Our Lady of the Angels school in Chicago. The tragedy shocked the nation, tore apart a community with grief and anger, left many families physically and psychologically scarred for life, and prompted a mystery unresolved to this day. It also led to a complete overhaul of fire safety standards for American schools. The story of that fire was eloquently told ten years ago by John Kuenster and David Cowan in their best-selling book To Sleep with the Angels. Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of the fire, John Kuenster returns to talk with firemen, parents, children, reporters, clergy, school administrators, and others who were in some way connected with the disaster.

  • - Behind the Scenes of the Great Romantic Comedies
    af Daniel M. Kimmel
    247,95 kr.

  • - The Cold-War Generation Grows Up
    af Victor D. Brooks
    217,95 kr.

    The unexpected surge in the birthrate between 1946 and 1964 transformed American society. A nation that had projected a population peaking at 150 million, and feared a renewal of the Great Depression in the wake of World War II, found itself dealing with a booming economy and 70 million children straining the capacity of everything from schools to new suburban housing. In Boomers, Victor D. Brooks chronicles the peaceful children's "invasion" of America that occurred from Dr. Spock to Woodstock. He identifies the challenge of parenthood in an era of large families and overcrowded homes, and explores the home life, leisure activities, and school environment of children who grew up during the cold war years. A major theme of Boomers is the influence on children of a newly energized American popular culture, including television, film, popular music, and toys.

  • - The Life and Work of America's Laureate of Light Verse
    af Dana Gioia & Douglas M. Parker
    246,95 kr.

    For years, readers have longed for a biography to match Nash's charm, wit, and good nature; now we have it in Douglas Parker's absorbing and delightful life of the poet.

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    215,95 kr.

    Inspired and inspirational, worldly wise, deeply felt, and often delightfully funny-here in one compact volume are 100 of the greatest poems written in English over the last century, memorable masterpieces that everyone should know and enjoy. Selected and introduced by Joseph Parisi, former longtime editor of Poetry magazine, this brilliant collection brings together the greatest poems by all the classic authors, along with the choicest works by today's most accomplished artists in America and abroad. From W. H. Auden and T. S. Eliot to John Ashbery and A. R. Ammons; Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore to Sylvia Plath and Mary Oliver; Robert Frost and W. B. Yeats to Allen Ginsberg and Thom Gunn, this comprehensive anthology features the poems that have best expressed the spirit of our times and helped create modern culture. In addition to such ground-breaking works as "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "Howl," Mr. Parisi has included the incisive social satire and whimsical wordplay of such wits as Dorothy Parker, Ogden Nash, and Frank O'Hara. Among contemporary poets in the book are Seamus Heaney, Jane Kenyon, Rita Dove, Sharon Olds, Paul Muldoon, Adrienne Rich, and the redoubtable Billy Collins, all of whom have already achieved wide popular acclaim for poems that speak compellingly about modern life and the perennial concerns of the human heart. Mr. Parisi provides a general introduction to the book and introduces each poem with a brief biographical and critical note. For anyone who wishes to discover or to re-experience the most important and vital poems of our time, 100 Essential Modern Poems is, quite simply, indispensable.

  • - Novellas and Stories
    af Arther Schnitzler
    226,95 kr.

    Young or old, they are all bachelors - a young officer (Lieutenant Gustl), a socially desirable lawyer (The Murderer), a middle-aged physician (Doctor Graesler), an aging rou (Casanova's Homecoming). This book focuses an eye on the minds of men who desire, fantasize about, and try to relate to women.

  • - The War Spirit on the Northern Home Front
    af James A. Marten
    228,95 kr.

    How children living in the North experienced the Civil War, considered in the larger contexts of economic, political, and cultural developments during the nineteenth century. Mr. Marten opens a new window on the impact of the war and shows that the youngest Americans were inevitable and enthusiastic participants.

  • - Notes on Looking and Photographing
    af Jerry L. Thomson
    240,95 kr.

    This work explores the many-levelled relationship between seeing and thinking. It reproduces some 20 photographs, and discusses these pictures and picture-taking occasions, and are not strictly historical, nor are they concern only with theoretical considerations.

  • - Captain Cook and His Rivals in the South Pacific
    af Geoffrey Blainey
    240,95 kr.

    In 1769 two ships set out independently in search of a missing continent: a French merchant ship, the St. Jean-Baptiste, commanded by Jean de Surville, and a small British naval vessel, the Endeavour, commanded by Captain James Cook. That Christmas, in New Zealand waters, the two captains were almost within sight of each other, though neither knew of the other's existence. This is the stirring tale of these rival ships and the men who sailed in them. Cook's first long voyage was one of the most remarkable in recorded history. He not only sailed around the world, following the most difficult route any navigator had ever attempted; he also changed the maps of the world. In heavy seas he made a more thorough search for the missing continent-believed to lie somewhere between New Zealand and South America-than had ever been made. He was the first to explore most of the New Zealand coast and a vast stretch of the east coast of Australia, and the first to explore the longest reef in the world, the Great Barrier Reef. In Jakarta and Cape Town, and in the seas between them, Cook lost a third of his crew to tropical illnesses, after earlier saving them from scurvy. The ship in which he circled the world was not much larger in area than a tennis court. Along with the de Surville vessel, the sea was an arena of international rivalry, for during his voyage Cook encountered Dutch, Spanish, French, and Portuguese competitors and suspicions. Geoffrey Blainey brings his marvelous storytelling powers to bear on this fascinating and important adventure, drawing us brilliantly into the lives of the major figures.

  • - A History of Forensic Science
    af Michael Kurland
    240,95 kr.

    The rise of scientific thinking in finding, catching, and convicting criminals-and, just as important, freeing the innocent-has transformed society's assault on crime. Before scientific detective work, early attempts to maintain public safety relied on the severity of punishment rather than any probability of apprehension. But with the rapid development of the sciences in the nineteenth century, some techniques began to spill over into more effective police work. Michael Kurland's engrossing history of forensic science recounts this remarkable progress, which continues to the present. He traces the history of the major techniques of criminal detection and many of the minor ones. Here are Bertillon's physical measurements used to recognize habitual criminals; the study of fingerprints identifying criminals long after they have left the scene of the crime; Gravelle's comparison microscope comparing bullets to determine if they have been fired from the same gun; the development of bloodstain identification and, ultimately, the blood type involved. Mr. Kurland explains how once-accepted techniques have fallen by the wayside-handwriting analysis, for example-and how methods such as lie detectors, voice spectrum analysis, bite mark evidence, and other methods have proven unworthy. Finally Irrefutable Evidence explores the rise of modern DNA typing techniques, which have proven the innocence of many persons convicted of major crimes and resulted in the exoneration of more than two hundred on death row. With 12 black-and-white illustrations.

  • - How the People Elected Barack Obama
    af Charles M. Madigan
    228,95 kr.

    Emphasizing the revealing experiences of representative Americans from around the country, who tell how the previous eight years of failed policies shaped their personal fate and prompted them to vote for a newcomer blazing the banner of change, Destiny Calling traces a political campaign that fulfilled Lincoln's promise even as it illuminated for the world - anew - America's commitment of hope and freedom. For additional information, see www.destinycallingbook.com.

  • - Black Leadership in the Age of Jim Crow
    af Raymond W. Smock
    168,95 - 218,95 kr.

  • - The Women's Movement in America, 1875-1930
    af Jean V. Matthews
    218,95 kr.

    Matthews's book chronicles the changing fortunes and transformations of the organized suffrage movement, from its dismal period to its final victory that brought women the vote.

  • - The American Response to the Environment in the Twentieth Century
    af Hal Rothman
    194,95 kr.

    Hal Rothman explains why Americans now see in the environment a salvation of themselves and their society, and a respite from the pressure of modern life.

  • - Through Reconstruction
    af Neil R. McMillen & Charles C. Bolton
    281,95 - 349,95 kr.

    The 8th edition of this notably successful college text. The concise nature of the Synopsis makes it easily compatible with the instructor's course emphases. Available in a complete or two-volume edition.

  • - Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro and the 1962 Crisis
    af Mark J. White
    215,95 kr.

    The causes and consequences of the 1962 crisis as well as a day-by-day narrative of the confrontation, based on up-to-date scholarship and newly released documents. American Ways Series.

  • - The Secret Wars of the CIA
    af John Prados
    270,95 kr.

    Safe for Democracy for the first time places the story of the CIA's covert operations squarely in the context of America's global quest for democratic values and institutions. National security historian John Prados offers a comprehensive history of the CIA's secret wars that is as close to a definitive account as is possible today.

  • - Evangelicals and the Road to Civil War
    af Curtis D. Johnson
    142,95 kr.

    Analyzing the struggle by evangelical Protestants for the mind and soul of America in the decades before the Civil War, Johnson lucidly explores the nature of the evangelical message, the conflict of ideas within the movement, and the influence of these forces-both immediate and far-reaching-on American culture. American Ways Series.

  • - The Darker Side
    af Leonard W. Levy
    174,95 kr.

    A distinguished constitutional historian examines Jefferson's record on civil liberties and finds it strikingly wanting. "Blunt words and blunt facts...an indispensable book." -Commentary

  • af Madison Jones
    158,95 kr.

    This award-winning novel follows twelve-year-old Steven Moore and his slave companion on a nightmarish journey behind Union lines.

  • - A Personal Failure Account of the Intelligence in Vietnam
    af George W. Allen
    246,95 kr.

    In this personal account of the intelligence failure in Vietnam, Mr. Allen reveals specifically how American leaders largely excluded intelligence from important policy deliberations until it was too late. "Don't miss this book!"-John Prados

  • - The Untold Story of the Nazi Slave Labor Camp That Secretly Manufactured V-2 Rockets
    af Andre Sellier
    341,95 kr.

    A former prisoner tells the untold story of the Nazi concentration camp that secretly manufactured V-2 rockets.

  • - Aldous Huxley, 1938-1956
    af Aldous Huxley
    506,95 kr.

    In this fifth of six volumes, covering Huxley's essays in the period of 1938-1956, Huxley continues to explore the role of science and technology in modern culture, and seeks a final level of foundational truth that might provide the basis of his growing interest in religious mysticism.

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