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This wholesome, award-winning classic that has sold more than 1 million copies is written by bestselling authors and illustrated by a Caldecott-winning artist, telling the story of a 100-year-old...

"This book explores the intersection of two topics and their impact on American culture. One is an idea: the American Dream, one of the most resonant -and controversial -themes of U.S. History. The...

The first book to approach high oscillation as a subject of its own, Highly Oscillatory Problems begins a new dialog and lays the groundwork for future research. It ensues from the six-month program...

The first encyclopedic reference to Atlantic historyBetween the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, the connections among Africa, the Americas, and Europe transformed world history—through maritime...

Complete in one volume for the first time, the joyous, jazz-saturated fiction of one of our foremost African American writers, including the four-novel Scooter sequenceOne of the leading cultural...

The present volume, set in the turbulent post-World War I period, finds Einstein awaiting news of the 1919 British eclipse expedition to test the general relativistic prediction of the deflection of...

One of Shakespeare's most rolicking and beloved comedies, The Taming of the Shrew was also one of his earliest, probably written about 1592. The introduction to this edition offers a full and...

For over a century, the Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard (1813–55) has been at the center of a number of important discussions, concerning not only philosophy and theology, but also, more recently,...

This anthology brings together essays by American, Canadian and British scholars to provide an overview of English-speaking evangelical religion. Each essay contains comparative evaluations of...

Contemporary Asian American artists––with a strong sense of being American and an acute critical consciousness of world matters––grapple with issues of identity in a way that sets them apart from...

From the days of discovery, when America was for Europeans more dream than reality, to our own days of disillusionment and faltering hope, poets, philosophers, historians, novelists, and theologians...

A wide-ranging anthology of primary texts in American foreign relations—now expanded to include documents from the Trump years to todayHow should America wield its power beyond its borders? Should it...

An anthology of some of the best writing on the worst of travel, Wish You Weren't Here! brings together twenty-one fantastic pieces that span the centuries as well as the continents. P. J. O'Rourke...

How war has been remembered collectively is the central question in this volume. War in the twentieth century is a vivid and traumatic phenomenon which left behind it survivors who engage time and...

Increases in computer power and technology have rapidly advanced the applications of numerical modeling in environmental and earth sciences. The progress of numerical modeling in atmospheric,...

In 1908, American philosopher Josiah Royce foresaw the future. Race questions and prejudices, he said, "promise to become, in the near future, still more important than they have ever been before."...

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The story of one of the most influential civil rights activist of our time. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was only 25 when he helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott and was soon organizing black...

Presenting state-of-the-art research into methods of wireless spectrum allocation based on game theory and mechanism design, this innovative and comprehensive book provides a strong foundation for...

"A paperback spinoff from Information: A Historical Companion that presents an accessible introductory history of information from premodern practices to twenty-first-century information culture"--