The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume I - Prijzen

Castro

The story of Fidel Castro has few parallels in contemporary history. None of the outstanding Third World leaders of the twentieth-century played such a prominent and restless part on the international...

From Slave Ship to Harvard

From Slave Ship to Harvard is the true story of an African American family in Maryland over six generations. The author has reconstructed a unique narrative of black struggle and achievement from pain...

Negroland

The daughter of a successful paediatrician and a fashionable socialite, Margo Jefferson spent her childhood among Chicago's black elite. She calls this society 'Negroland': 'a small region of Negro Am...

Media and the Cold War in the 1980s

The Cold War was a media phenomenon. It was a daily cultural political struggle for the hearts and minds of ordinary people-and for government leaders, a struggle to undermine their enemies' ability t...

An Introduction to Popular Culture in the US

Winner of the Popular Culture Association's 2018 John G. Cawelti Award for the Best Textbook / Primer What is popular culture? Why study popular culture in an academic context? An Introduction to...

Under Surge, Under Siege

Winner of the 2010 Eudora Welty Book Prize and the Mississippi Library Association's Nonfiction Author's Award for 2011, Under Surge, Under Siege shows how Hurricane Katrina tore into Bay St. Louis, M...

Confederate General Leonidas Polk

Journal of Army Life, by R. Glisan.

Runaway Woman

No-one thought she had the courage... Those looking in from the outside think Lucy Lovejoy's life is like any other, but at the centre of her family there is a big empty hole where all...

The Custom of the Country

First published in 1913, Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country is a scathing novel of ambition featuring one of the most ruthless heroines in literature. Undine Spragg is as unscrupulous as she is...

Belly Button Book

Bravo for the belly button! Emboldened by the enthusiastic response to Belly Button (Round) -a song from her Grammy-nominated book/CD, Philadelphia Chickens-Sandra Boynton further contemplates this...

The Little Steamroller

Every day the Little Steamroller works at London Airport clearing the runways for the aeroplanes and every day the people on the gate make fun of him. But they do not know of the time that this littl...