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Sarah
The Life of Sarah Bernhardt
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a riveting portrait of the great Sarah Bernhardt from acclaimed writer Robert Gottlieb Everything about Sarah Bernhardt is fascinating, from her obscure birth...
The FBI
A History
A groundbreaking history of the FBI, from its anti-terrorist roots in the Reconstruction era to the 9/11 attacks This fast-paced history of the FBI presents the first balanced and complete portrait of...
Shyness
How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness
How a handful of psychiatrists, with the help of the pharmaceutical industry, turned the ordinary emotion of shyness into an illness In the 1970s, a small group of leading psychiatrists met...
The Persistence of Poverty
Why the Economics of the Well-Off Can't Help the Poor
New thinking about poverty is finally here In this important book, one of our boldest and most original thinkers charges that conventional explanations of poverty are mistaken, and that the...
War of a Thousand Deserts
Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War
An award-winning look at how Apaches, Navajos, Kiowas, and especially Comanches played a decisive role in America’s watershed victory over Mexico"An engaging book that enlivens the debate...
Encounters
Chinese Language and Culture, Student Book 2
Welcome to Encounters, a groundbreaking Chinese language program that features a dramatic series filmed entirely in China. The program’s highly communicative approach immerses learners in the Chinese language and...
Encounters
Chinese Language and Culture, Student Book 3
Live the Language Designed for English-speaking students ready to embark on the adventure of learning Mandarin Chinese, Encounters accelerates proficiency and cultural understanding through authentic...
Learn to Read Greek
Part 1, Textbook and Workbook Set
Learn to Read Greek is a text and workbook for students beginning the study of Ancient Greek. It is the companion volume to the authors’ Learn to Read Latin, published in 2004. Like its Latin predecessor, it...
Learn to Read Greek
Part 2, Textbook and Workbook Set
Learn to Read Greek is a text and workbook for students beginning the study of Ancient Greek. It is the companion volume to the authors’ Learn to Read Latin, published in 2004. Like its Latin predecessor, it...
The Hanging of Thomas Jeremiah
A Free Black Man's Encounter with Liberty
The tragic untold story of how a nation struggling for its freedom denied it to one of its own: a free Black man "A searing portrayal of the central paradox of the American Revolution—the centrality of...