For students, researchers, and history lovers, a look at day-to-day life in a rarely explored era. "About life and death, midwives and funerals, business, books and authors, and town government."-- "Choice" "An excellently written account of what is... Zobraziť viac
The companion to the bestselling "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" is the funny, heartbreaking, and powerfully insightful tale that first introduced Siddalee, Vivi, their spirited Walker clan, and the indomitable Ya-Yas. Zobraziť viac
In 1941, three brothers witnessed their parents and two other siblings being led away to their eventual murders. It was a grim scene that would, of course, be repeated endlessly throughout the war. Instead of running or giving in to despair, these... Zobraziť viac
In the summer of 1976, during their annual retreat on Cape Cod, the McKotch family came apart. Now, twenty years after daughter Gwen was diagnosed with Turner\'s syndrome--a rare genetic condition that keeps her trapped forever in the body of a child--... Zobraziť viac
In this darkly funny and brilliantly written noiresque memoir, a young New York City advertising art director by day/glittering nightclub drag queen and amateur beauty pageant contestant by night finds himself struggling to keep his high heels grounded... Zobraziť viac
From two of the best political reporters in the country comes the gripping inside story of the historic 2008 presidential election. Zobraziť viac
The recent interpretation of Maya hieroglyphs has given us the first written history of the New World as it existed before the European invasion. In this book, two of the first central figures in the massive effort to decode the glyphs, Linda Schele... Zobraziť viac
There are approximately 6,000 languages on Earth today, each a descendant of the tongue first spoken by Homo sapiens some 150,000 years ago. While laying out how languages mix and mutate over time, a noted linguistics professor argues that language is... Zobraziť viac
First published in 1927, "My Journey to Lhasa" tells of the first Western woman to enter the forbidden Tibetan city of Lhasa and to have been received by the Dalai Lama. Map. Zobraziť viac
In the fourth installment of Robert Van Gulik's ancient Chinese mystery series based on historical court records, detective Judge Dee is appointed to the magistrate of Pei-chow -- a distant frontier district in the barren north of the ancient Chinese... Zobraziť viac
Waking Giant is a brilliant, definitive history of America's vibrant and tumultuous rise during the Jacksonian era from David S. Reynolds, the Bancroft Prize-winning author of Walt Whitman's America. Casting fresh light on Andrew Jackson, who redefined... Zobraziť viac
The Soviet war in Afghanistan was a grueling debacle that has striking lessons for the twenty-first century. In "The Great Gamble," Gregory Feifer examines the conflict from the perspective of the soldiers on the ground. In gripping detail, he vividly... Zobraziť viac
In "Why We Run, " biologist, award-winning nature writer, and ultramarathoner Bernd Heinrich explores a new perspective on human evolution by examining the phenomenon of ultraendurance and makes surprising discoveries about the physical, spiritual --... Zobraziť viac
In his #1 "New York Times" bestseller "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus", John Gray helped men and women develop better communication skills by recognizing that they have different emotional needs. Now he takes readers to communication's final... Zobraziť viac
Written with compassionate realism and wit, the stories in this mesmerizing collection depict the disparities of town and village life in South America, of the frightfully poor and outrageously rich, of memories and illusions, and of lost opportunities... Zobraziť viac
America's canniest conservative political analyst and his wife take on the state of the nation and find new causes for concern around every corner. Zobraziť viac
This popular analyst provides important reflections on what it means to be a man, how man develops into maturity, and what components make up man's complex personality. Zobraziť viac
"With special sections for families and health-care professionals"--Cover. Zobraziť viac
