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The Common School Awakening
A statue of Horace Mann, erected in front of the Boston State House in 1863, declares him the "Father of the American Public School System." For over a century and a half, most …
ZANZIBAR CHEST
A deeply affecting memoir of a childhood in Africa and the continent's horrendous wars, which Hartley witnessed at first hand as a journalist in the 1990s. Shortlisted for the …
American Modernism and Depression Documentary
Photos filled with the forlorn faces of hungry and impoverished Americans that came to characterize the desolation of the Great Depression are among the best known artworks of the …
The Happy Tank
'A great way to help children consider practical tools to improve their mood when they're feeling low.' - Tom Percival, artist, illustrator and bestselling children's author'This …
Thomas Traherne: Centuries, Poems, and Thanksgivings: Volume II: Poems and Thanksgivings
A scholarly edition of works by Thomas Traherne. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
Water Histories and Spatial Archaeology
This book offers a new interpretation of the spatial-political-environmental dynamics of water and irrigation in long-term histories of arid regions. It compares ancient Southwest …
Night is a Sharkskin Drum
This is a lyrical evocation of Hawaii by a Native poet whose ancestral land has been scarred by tourism, the American military and urbanization. Grounded in the ancient grandeur …
Book of Frank
A visceral, surrealist tale of becoming, from the shamanic cult hero of contemporary queer poetryBeguiling, outrageous, playfully morbid and frequently stunning in its surreal …
The Poetic "I"
One should never assume that the narrator in a poem is expressing views identical to the author's. ""For words, like Nature, half reveal / And half conceal the Soul within,"" wrote …
Black '47 and Beyond
Here Ireland's premier economic historian and one of the leading authorities on the Great Irish Famine examines the most lethal natural disaster to strike Europe in the nineteenth …
March Of The Divine Magnificent
One day in the future divine ones from the heavens shall return to earth. During that time mankind and all of life on planet earth shall be restored back into its original …
Necessity of Young Adult Fiction
Discusses how young adult fiction offers new ways of thinking about climate change and definitions of citizenship.The Necessity of Young Adult Fiction argues that YA fiction helps …