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Fernando Pessoa was born in Lisbon in 1888 and was brought up in Durban, South Africa. In 1905 he returned to Lisbon where he matriculated at the University, and continued to read and write in English. He published in 1918 35 Sonnets and in 1922 the three parts of his English Poems, all composed many years before. The rest of his life passed uneventfully in Lisbon. The only book published in his lifetime was Mensagem, a collection of poems on ...

Soon, though, Peter, Edmund and Susan find Narnia too and the adventures really begin.Together they must battle against the evil White Witch to break her cruel grip on Narnia, a land she has cast in perpetual winter, without Christmas.

There's much talk these days about school and community relations for adolescents, yet little is known about the lives of youth at the borders. The authors explore the borders of schooling to understand the range of spaces that youth form and reform identities, relations and social movements amidst feminism, civil rights, welfare rights and lesbian/gay movements.

Does our society care about our children? This provocative and in-depth examination of violence in the lives of children uncovers the conditions and social policies that perpetuate violence. Contributors address the myths and realities of youth violence and the impact of poverty, race and gender.

But for a few twists of fate, Atlanta could easily have grown to be the recording center that Nashville is today. Pickin' on Peachtree traces Atlanta's emergence in the 1920s as a major force in country recording and radio broadcasting, a position of dominance it enjoyed for some forty years.From the Old Time Fiddlers' Conventions and barn dances through the rise of station WSB and other key radio outlets, Wayne Daniel thoroughly documents the...

This anthology of crime, heroes, and villains celebrates the Florida murder mystery. The writers--creators of the genre sometimes called "American Noir"--helped Florida become a serious contender for the title of crime fiction capital of America. Contributors include Carroll John Daly, Brett Halliday, John D. MacDonald, and Charles Willeford.

The second edition of Ann Ronald's classic study assesses the literary career of this major contemporary author and includes a new afterword by Scott Slovic.

Hazel Pendley creates heirloom-quality quilts. Ed Ripley wraps bits of fur and feathers into trout flies the size of gnats. Edna Hartong still makes an item that has all but disappeared from the American scene: lye soap.All of these people, and many more like them, are Appalachians who work with their hands. Journalist Sam Venable and photographer Paul Efird spent four years combing the hills and hollows of southern Appalachia to find these ta...

Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His complete works will be available in Penguin Modern Classics.

The chair of the recent Social Security Advisory Council explains and shares his views on Social Security reform

In this new volume of political essays and social commentary John Leo offers a lively alternative to the Washington-oriented slant of much political journalism. Rejecting the dry insider's air of knowing punditry, Leo's conversational style and acerbic wit engage the reader with his insightful and humorous views of what is going on in education, law, advertising, television, the news media, language, and the various liberation movements that a...

This book discusses every aspect of foxhunting-quarry, hounds, training, breeding, scent, staff, horses and landowners- all in a simple and easy-to-read format.

The Report on Smoking and Health published by the Royal College of Physicians in England in 1965 warned of a connection between lung cancer and smoking. The findings were widely publicized, and were accepted by practically everyone -- indeed, they persist today. As Hans J. Eysenck shows in his classic study Smoking, Health, and Personality, the results were by no means immune to challenge. Not only were the experimental and statistical methods...

The Fast Red Road--A Plainsong" is a novel which plunders, in a gleeful, two-fisted fashion, the myth and pop-culture surrounding the American Indian.

Since then-secretary of state Warren Christopher's announcement in 1996 of an increased emphasis on environmental issues in U.S. foreign affairs, the "green" hand of foreign policy has become a threat to national sovereignty without the offsetting benefit of improved environmental quality. This collection of essays takes a hard look at how environmental concerns have come to help determine U.S. foreign policy--and the dangers that this poses t...

Early Art and Artists in West Virginia" is copiously illustrated with 136 plates accompanying the essays on portraiture and landscape painting, which form the first half of the book. A similar number of smaller illustrations in full color bring life to a biographical directory in the second part of the book, which contains nearly one thousand known painters who worked in West Virginia. Many West Virginians will find their family names in this ...