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**WINNER OF THE CALDECOTT HONOR**Cherry Mo's stunning debut is about a young girl who immigrates to America and finds home in an unexpected place.When Jun moves from Hong Kong to America, the only...

Poetry. African American Studies. DOMINA UN/BLUED dislocates the traditional slave narrative, placing the slave's utterance within the map and chronicle of conquest. Charting a diaspora of the human...

This book presents an entirely fresh view of the upbringing of English children in upper and professional class families over three centuries. Drawing on direct testimony from contemporary diaries...

America is at war with terrorism. Terrorists must be brought to justice. We hear these phrases together so often that we rarely pause to reflect on the dramatic differences between the demands of war...

Un petit peuple issu d'Europe s'est établi "au Nord du monde" , dans une solitude glacée où il s'acharne à survivre. Mais, au fil des siècles, les communications s'espacent, puis s'interrompent...

Read all about how a young boy from California who listened to polka music and played the accordion became a comedian, parody songwriter, and Grammy winner in this biography for young readers about...

A New York Times Bestseller and tie-in to Academy-Award Winning Short Film "Hair Love" "I love that Hair Love is highlighting the relationship between a Black father and daughter. Matthew leads the...

Paul Revere's midnight ride looms as an almost mythical event in American history--yet it has been largely ignored by scholars and left to patriotic writers and debunkers. Now one of the foremost...

"Now may I have, by the reputation of an eunuch, the privileges of one. . . and be seen in a lady's chamber in the morning as early as a husband. . . ." In 17th-century London, a notorious womaniser...

A New York Times Editor's ChoiceAn Economist Best Book of 2010A Financial Times Best Book of 2010A Library Journal Best Book of 2010The debate is ages old: Where does language come from? Is it an...

THE BASIS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL TV SENSATION BABYLON BERLIN"Cabaret on cocaine...captures the dark glamour of a briefly exhilarating time between the wars."—NPRBabylon Berlin is the first book in the...

Learn about Tornado Alley, the area in the United States where tornadoes are most frequently formed and often cause the most damage.Robert Miller and Ernest Fawbush coined the term "Tornado Alley"...

The Global Carbon Cycle is a short introduction to this essential geochemical driver of the Earth's climate system, written by one of the world's leading climate-science experts. In this...

Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by, and held at, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, this volume examines the American (i.e...

New York, [1953?]. First American edition, printed in Great Britain. With a foreword by Arthur Waley. Cloth, dj. 210 p. ; illus., fold. map ; 22 cm. Ex-library copy from the Grove Press archive, with...

With Human Knowledge in Idealistic Perspective the philosopher Nicholas Rescher launches a three-volume series that will synthesize his life's work. Rescher's numerous books and articles, which...

'Cuckolds like lovers should themselves deceive'So concludes one of Wycherley's most revived and much discussed plays. It is a satirical comedy sharply focussed on the follies, vices and hypocrisies...