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Benjamin "Chappie" Puttbutt, a black juior professor at the overwhelmingly white Jack London College, lusts after tenure and its glorious perks (including a house in the Oakland Hills). He spends most of his time trying to divine the ideological climate of the school and obligingly adapting his beliefs to it. When Puttbutt's mysterious Japanese tutor, who promises to teach him Japanese by spring, suddenly becomes the school's new president and...

Galway Kinnell's twelfth book of poems is powerful and thrilling. Imperfect Thirst includes beautiful love poems and approaches elemental subjects with a remarkable balance of good nature and holy dread: recollections of childhood, snapshots of impassive cruelty, reflections on art and nature. This energetic collection will prove once again why Galway Kinnell is one of America's masters of the art.

Natalie Petesch is a wonder of a writer. There is absolutely no one like her. She is courageous almost to the point of being fierce, And unbearably honest. And wise. And full of tears. I salute her fine work". -- Gerald Stern "... The subject matter is compelling". -- Kirkus Reviews

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..".a clear and consistent appreciation of the best insights of contemporary Catholic theology...

Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in European literature. Its subject is the fate of one of the world's greatest civilizations over thirteen centuries - its rulers, wars and society, and the events that led to its disastrous collapse. Here, in volumes one and two, Gibbon charts the vast extent and constitution of the Empire from the re...

The boisterous and bow-legged Happy Family of Montana rides high in this sequel to Chip of the Flying U. Originally published in 1910, The Happy Family is, like Chip, cinematic in its fast action, unusual in its emphasis on human relationships, unique in its warmth and humor. Here are the cowpokes who endeared themselves to generations of readers - Andy, Weary, Irish, Pink, Happy Jack, Big Medicine, and the rest. They were so popular that thei...

Soon to be a Hulu TV series starring Zoë KravitzFrom the bestselling author of Funny Girl, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down, a wise and hilarious novel about love, heartbreak, and rock and roll.Rob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend, Laura, has just left him for the guy upstairs, and Rob is both miserable and relieved. After all, could he have spent his life with someone who has a bad record collec...

One of America's earliest books. One of the most important early Pilgrim tracts to come from America, this book helped persuade others to come join those who already came to Plymouth.

With Freedom's Lawmakers, Eric Foner has assembled the first comprehensive directory of the over 1, 500 African Americans who held political office in the South during the Reconstruction era. He has compiled an impressive amount of information about the antebellum status, occupations, property ownership, and military service of these officials -- who range from U.S. congressmen to local justices of the peace and constables. This revised paperb...

This award-winning history was the first to provide a detailed and well-documented account of the first organized Polish immigrant communities in America. Author T. Lindsay Baker, who conducted some of his research while a Fulbright lecturer at the Technical University of Wrocaw, tells the story of the settlements founded in Texas in the mid-1850s. As residents of Upper Silesia, the ethnic Poles bound for Texas had long retained their own lang...

In the U.S. approximately one percent of the population (2.6 million) have a bipolar disorder - also called manic-depressive illness - characterized by mood cycles of depression and mania (excessive elation, activity, talkativeness, etc.). In this book, the "pieces" that compose the "bipolar puzzle" come together in a unique question-and-answer format. Written by a bipolar sufferer, coauthor Bryan L. Court, typical questions heard in bipolar s...

Alzheimer's disease - a degenerative disease of the central nervous system characterized especially by premature mental deterioration - is the most publicly visible and widely discussed form of a range of disorders known as senile dementia. The nature of Alzheimer's disease, especially its progressive debilitation of the memory, raises key theological issues. What does it mean to be truly human? Does our ability to remember define who we are a...

Life at the Flying U Ranch in the Bear Paw country of Montana was pleasant--until thousands of sheep invaded the coulee. B. M. Bower casts the ancient enmity between cattlemen and sheepmen in her own robust and slyly humorous style. "Flying U Ranch" brings back the Happy Family of cowboys introduced in "Chip of the Flying U." Bertha Muzzy Bower, a Montanan herself, understood the joshing, boasting, and thoroughly decent young hands who worked...

This is a very important work, with contributions by many of the most prominent scholars in science studies....It actually delivers on its promise to renew discussion and develop fresh ideas about the allegation that the sciences are no longer (or never were) unified by a single theoretical view of nature or a methodological foundation." --Michael Lynch, Brunel University

The fifty-six essays in this book present cultural reflection on the gospel assigned for each Sunday in Cycle B of the Roman Lectionary. Each essay highlights aspects of the first-century, East Mediterranean, cultural world in which Jesus lived and suggests a cross-cultural comparison with contemporary western culture. With this information, readers can make fitting applications of Scripture to modern life.

The most unusual and entertaining voice I've heard in recent years. Reading her...you must sharpen your spirit to be moved by what is uncanny and rare.

The world of an early 19th century Kentucky farm proves to be too small a place for a boy with a vision. His wanderlust takes him to the Ohio River and into the fierce business world of old St. Louis, where he meets a veteran trapper. Filled with the trapper's stories, he plans to set out to experience the wilderness lore firsthand.