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Bill Werber's claim to fame is unique: he is the last living person to have a direct connection to the 1927 Yankees, "Murderers' Row, " a team hailed by many as the best of all time. Signed by the Yankees while still a freshman at Duke University, Werber spent two weeks that summer of '27 on the Yankee bench to "gain experience" -- and was miserable and lonely, ignored by everyone. After graduating in 1930 Werber was back with the Yankees, but...

Paul Scott Malone's first volume of stories, In an Arid Land, won the Texas Institute of Letters Award for the best book of fiction for 1995. His second book of stories raises his award-winning standard. Memorial Day and Other Stories has a cast of characters not easily forgotten, they are damaged young men struggling with a hostile world -- or at least a world they don't always understand. Malone's major theme is the angst of modern man. Even...

Fifty years after WWII, Dagmar Ostermann, a former prisoner at Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Hans Wilhelm Munch, a former Nazi and head of the Waffen SS Hygiene Institute, talk face to face, in an interview that grew out of a documentary film by Bernhard Frankfurter. The dramatic structure of the discussion follows events of the Nazi occupation chronologically. Frankfurter was an international Film director. Cernyak-Spatz is professor emerita of the...

This is the most comprehensive and authoritative biography to date of Mao Zedong, enriched by much new information only recently made available in China.

This selection of more than forty poems from a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance includes both uncompromising indictments of racial injustice and celebrations of the triumphs of African-Americans.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1, 700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and acros...

Eric Bentley's radical new look at the grammar of theatre...is a work of exceptional virtue... The book justifies its title by being precisely about the ways in which life manifests itself in the theatre...This is a book to be read again and again." Frank Kermode, The New York Review of Books

It's your soul playing with the rhythm, flying around in the beats." -- DJ Q-Bert They are music's vanguard. The reshape today's sounds -- house, techno, hip-hop, rock -- direct our feet on the floor, and influence the way music is represented in our culture. "Don't look at the turntable as just this mechanism that you play records on. Apply yourself to it as if it were an instrument, and you can express yourself through the turntable." ...

Exquisite, ready-to-color drawings of flowers -- one for each letter of the alphabet -- accompanied by young sprites in carefree poses. Each illustration also contains the first letter of the flower's name.

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Composed in a golden age of Celtic storytelling in the 13th century or earlier, this collection of 12 Welsh prose tales is a masterpiece of European literature. This unabridged republication of a stand edition includes a Publisher's Note and the original Introduction.

First Published in a single volume in 1883, the stories collected in Little Novels of Sicily are drawn from the Sicily of Giovanni Verga's childhood, reported at the time to be the poorest place in Europe. Verga's style is swift, sure, and implacable, he plunges into his stories almost in midbreath, and tells them with a stark economy of words. There's something dark and tightly coiled at the heart of each story, an ironic, bitter resolution t...

Book by Hugh Wheeler Introduction by Jonathan Tunick "Throwing caution to the winds, I assert that A Little Night Music comes as close as possible to being the perfect romantic comedy musical." - Brendan Gill, The New Yorker "Heady, civilized, sophisticated and enchanting. Good God! An adult musical." - Clive Barnes, The New York Times

When Ronald Dellums arrived in Washington in 1971 to represent Oakland, California, in the House of Representatives, his radical activism had already earned him a place on Nixon's enemy list. When he retired in 1998-his radicalism still intact-he left a record of accomplishment that has made an indelible mark on our political landscape.Lying Down with the Lions chronicles Dellums's years in the House, and offers crucial lessons for Americans c...

Perry Lafond, approaching forty, knows he's had a decent life with his attractive, longtime wife, Marcia. But he's come to the point where he is not sure that he can continue on. In the meantime, there's the question of children. His wife, battling infertility, is obsessed with the idea of having a baby. Perry wants a child too--maybe. Suddenly, he can't keep his mind off other women. In his job as a probation officer he becomes recklessly inf...

No issue more polarizes American Protestants today than the church's stance on homosexuality. In recent years a number of denominations have engaged in prolonged and divisive debates on the subject, and it appears that these debates will continue to occupy their attention.The contributors to this volume call for the formation of a "loyal opposition" that is serious in its commitment to the difficult process of reconciliation and forgiveness. F...

In this engaging and entertaining peek behind closed White House doors, bestselling author Web Garrison explores and explains the states of affairs that have often gone hand in hand with affairs of state. Illustrations.

The general editors of the new series of forty-two volumes -- renowned Shakespeareans Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA -- have assembled a team of six eminent scholars who have, along with the general editors themselves, prepared new introductions and notes to all of Shakespeare's plays and poems. Redesigned in an easy-to-read format that preserves the favorite features of the original -- and including an essa...

Family businesses epitomize the best of the American Dream: you work hard, you're your own boss, you leave a lasting legacy to your children -- or do you? Statistics show that only 30% of family businesses survive to the second generation, and a paltry 10% survive to the third generation. Family businesses are in trouble, and their survival is crucial to us all. Their success ensures our country's success -- and their failure can drastically a...

For the first time, George Anderson, the world's premier medium, offers a personal, first-hand glimpse of the Other Side, and brings a message of hope and love for all, based on the illuminating lessons of his life's work...In the twenty-five years he has worked with the bereaved to communicate with lost loved ones, premier medium George Anderson has garnered a worldwide reputation for his astonishing abilities. Now, for the first time, Anders...

On each page of this fun collection is a mother's witty saying, wise mantra, or an inspiring prayer. The mothers quoted here come from all walks of life. Yet each share a common goal: to dispense their counsel to the world's children (of all ages). From "Raising Babies" to "Random Acts of Budgeting", from "What to Tell Your Imaginary Friend" to "Cross-Training with God", we are reminded that, in many cases, Mother knows best.