Best of
High-School

1985

Walk Through Cold Fire


Cin Forshay-Lunsford - 1985
    A sixteen-year-old girl with a miserable home life find love and friendship for one heartbreaking summer with a gang of other teenagers with problems.

Willa Cather's My Antonia


Liza McAlister Williams - 1985
    Also includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list.

Biblical Economics in Comics


Vic Lockman - 1985
    His method of explaining what it says just happens to be cartoons - a non-threatening, easy-to-remember, and fun way to demonstrate God’s principles. Vic helps us to understand the market, money, taxes, government, law and what the Bible has to say about each one. An ideal introduction to the study of economics.

The Making of Citizen Kane, Revised edition


Robert L. Carringer - 1985
    While credit for its genius has traditionally been attributed solely to its director, Orson Welles, Carringer's pioneering study documents the shared creative achievements of Welles and his principal collaborators. The Making of Citizen Kane, copiously illustrated with rare photographs and production documents, also provides an in-depth view of the operations of the Hollywood studio system. This new edition includes a revised preface and overview of criticism, an updated chronology of the film's reception history, a reconsideration of the locus of responsibility of Welles's ill-fated The Magnificent Ambersons, and new photographs.

Ever Since Darwin/The Panda's Thumb/Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes (Reflections in Natural History 1-3)


Stephen Jay Gould - 1985
    These books contain reprints of his essays on natural history.