Yet like millions of others who suffered during Stalin's reign of terror, she was arrested—on trumped-up charges of being a Trotskyist terrorist and counter-revolutionary—and sentenced to prison. With an amazing eye for detail, profound strength, and an indefatigable spirit, Ginzburg recounts the years, days, and minutes she endured in prisons and labor camps, including two years of solitary confinement. A classic account of survival, Journey into the Whirlwind is considered one of the most important documents of Stalin's regime ever written.

    In her working-class neighbourhood in Copenhagen, she is enthralled by her wild, red-headed friend Ruth, who initiates her into adult secrets. But Tove cannot reveal her true self to her or to anyone else. For 'long, mysterious words begin to crawl across my soul', and she comes to realize that she has a vocation, something unknowable within her - and that she must one day, painfully but inevitably, leave the narrow street of her childhood behind.Childhood, the first volume in The Copenhagen Trilogy, is a visceral portrait of girlhood and female friendship, told with lyricism and vivid intensity.

    Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks, which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens.The term refers to the predominant trees in the vast forests that cover the area and to the quality of the soils below, which are too sandy and acid to be good for farming. On all sides, however, developments of one kind or another have gradually moved in, so that now the central and integral forest is reduced to about a thousand square miles. Although New Jersey has the heaviest population density of any state, huge segments of the Pine Barrens remain uninhabited. The few people who dwell in the region, the "Pineys," are little known and often misunderstood. Here McPhee uses his uncanny skills as a journalist to explore the history of the region and describe the people "and their distinctive folklore" who call it home.

    Baker set out to track the daily comings and goings of a pair of peregrine falcons across the flat fen lands of eastern England. He followed the birds obsessively, observing them in the air and on the ground, in pursuit of their prey, making a kill, eating, and at rest, activities he describes with an extraordinary fusion of precision and poetry. And as he continued his mysterious private quest, his sense of human self slowly dissolved, to be replaced with the alien and implacable consciousness of a hawk.It is this extraordinary metamorphosis, magical and terrifying, that these beautifully written pages record.

    In this National Book Award-winning book, Kozol unflinchingly exposes the disturbing "destruction of hearts and minds in the Boston public school." A new Epilogue assesses the last 20 years of the educational system.

    The Los Angeles Times has listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine has included it in a survey of books that changed our world, and it has been called the Book of Genesis for environmentalists. Now a fourth edition of this highly regarded work is available, with a new preface and epilogue in which Nash explores the future of wilderness and reflects on its ethical and biocentric relevance.

    Laing is at his most wickedly iconoclastic in this eloquent assault on conventional morality. Unorthodox to some, brilliantly original to others, The Politics of Experience goes beyond the usual theories of mental illness and alienation, and makes a convincing case for the "madness of morality." Compelling, unsettling, consistently absorbing, The Politics of Experience is a classic of genuine importance that will "excite, enthrall, and disturb. No one who reads it will remain unaffected." (Rollo May, Saturday Review)

    Timeless, inspiring, and full of valuable advice. A book every rider should read.

    125,000 first printing.

    The scale of the tragedy shocked the nation and briefly replaced the events of World War II in newspaper headlines. It led to a reform of safety standards and codes across the U.S., and to major changes in the treatment and rehabilitation of burn victims internationally.Written by radio broadcaster and Boston Globe journalist, Paul Benzaquin, this book is widely regarded as one of the most harrowing tales in the annals of disaster: a story of panic and desperation, of chaos and utter fear, it is also a story of almost incredible courage and ingenuity in the midst of despair.What gives this story lasting value is its emphasis on the aftermath of the fire: the medical innovations wrought by hospital workers in their attempt to save lives; the change in safety regulations brought about by the official enquiry in to the causes of the fire.Paul Benzaquin has scrupulously sifted facts from fancy and with powerful dramatic force molded these and other important elements into a stunning narrative, making Holocaust! a powerful book.Unmissable reading.Contains a detailed layout plan of The Cocanut Grove illustrated with over 20 black-and-white photographs.

    It contains sketches of orange growers, orange botanists, orange pickers, orange packers, early settlers on Florida's Indian River, the first orange barons, modern concentrate makers, and a fascinating profile of Ben Hill Griffin of Frostproof, Florida who may be the last of the individual orange barons. McPhee's astonishing book has an almost narrative progression, is immensely readable, and is frequently amusing. Louis XIV hung tapestries of oranges in the halls of Versailles, because oranges and orange trees were the symbols of his nature and his reign. This book, in a sense, is a tapestry of oranges, too—with elements in it that range from the great orangeries of European monarchs to a custom of people in the modern Caribbean who split oranges and clean floors with them, one half in each hand.

    Long out of print, this collection of early, seminal essays helped to establish Chomsky as a leading critic of United States foreign policy. These pages mount a scathing critique of the contradictions of the war, and an indictment of the mainstream, liberal intellectuals—the “new mandarins”—who furnished what Chomsky argued was the necessary ideological cover for the horrors visited on the Vietnamese people.As America’s foreign entanglements deepen by the month, Chomsky’s lucid analysis is a sobering reminder of the perils of imperial diplomacy. With a new foreword by Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States, American Power and the New Mandarins is a renewed call for independent analysis of America’s role in the world.

    They were charged with 221 acts of sabotage designed to “ferment violent revolution.” Rusty was one of two individuals acquitted, and the rest received life sentences. In The World that was Ours, his wife, Hilda Bernstein, offers an astonishing personal account of the events leading up to the “Rivonia Trial” and describes how, as a white family with four children, they managed to fight a hostile and unjust regime.There was a long night ahead. We are unable to read. We listen all the time, listen for the sound of a car in anticipation that the police will come. If he is in the hands of the police, surely they will bring him to the house to search; they always raid after an arrest.Hilda Bernstein (1915–2006) lived in London, but in 1933 moved to South Africa where she married Lionel Bernstein. She was elected as a Communist to the Johannesburg City Council; helped found the multiracial Federation of South African Women; and worked closely with the African National Congress’ Women’s League in opposition to apartheid.

    Each volume helps the reader to encounter the original work more fully by placing it in historical context, focusing on the important aspects of the text, and posing key questions.Monarch Notes include: Background on the author and the work Detailed plot summary Character anaylsis Major themes in the work Critical reception of the work Questions and model answers Guides to further study

    C. S. Lewis's Studies in Words explores this fascination by taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations using examples from a vast range of English literature, recovering lost meanings and analysing their functions. It doubles as an absorbing and entertaining study of verbal communication, its pleasures and problems. The issues revealed are essential to all who read and communicate thoughtfully, and are handled here by a masterful exponent and analyst of the English language.

    Two five-man crews didn't make it back. Landing on Japanese-occupied territory in China, two drowned and the rest were captured one by one. For the Americans, capture meant solitary imprisonment, starvation, torture, and for some death. Only four came home.

    

    To some they offer tantalizing glimpses of other worlds. to others a subversive counterpoint to human arrogance and weakness. Like no other author. Katharine Briggs throughout her work communicated the thrill and delight of the world of fairies. and in this book she articulated for the first time the history of that world in tradition and literature.From every period and every country. poets and storytellers have described a magical world inhabited by elfin spirits. Capricious and vengeful. or beautiful and generous. theyve held us in thrall for generations. And on a summers morn. as the dew dries softly on the grass. if you kneel and look under a toadstool. well ...

    

    

    And Operation Gwamba? For 18 dramatic months Operation Gwamba meant John Walsh--and his heartwarming, danger-filled struggle to save 10,000 animals from certain death.Operation Gwamba began when ISPA (the International Society for the Protection of Animals) learned that thousands of forest creatures were trapped by the spreading artificial lake behind the new Afobaka Dam in Surinam -- formerly Dutch Guiana. To Surinam, ISPA sent John Walsh, a young man trained in rescue techniques by the Massachusetts SPCA. What followed was one of this century's most extraordinary true adventures of man and animal.

    Messerer has gained an international reputation for his classes in classical technique-models of invention and well-rounded exercise, stressing both precision and fluid artistic control. Nearly 500 photographs of principal Bolshoi dancers illustrate the positions and steps indicated, and an introductory section by Messerer outlines his basic plan and philosophy of teaching.

    From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism and everyday life in the late twentieth century. Now finally available in a superb English translation approved by the author, Debord's text remains as crucial as ever for understanding the contemporary effects of power, which are increasingly inseparable from the new virtual worlds of our rapidly changing image/information culture.

    More than two hundred photographs and text trace the development of cathedral design from its Norman beginnings through the flowering of Gothic to the new Roman Catholic cathedral in Liverpool.

    

    

    It tells how one mother and one father bring up eleven bewitched, beguiling, bedeviling children.For Pat Buck pandemonium begins shortly after 6 a.m. As the mother of this ravenous broad of six boys and five girls, she must make a typical breakfast consisting of a half gallon of oatmeal, two dozen scrambled eggs, two pounds of bacon, and two loaves of toast. Along the way she helps dress the younger ones, inspects up to 110 fingernails, 22 hands and ears (behind and inside), and 11 necks, and hopefully gets the children off to school on time. On occasion Pat and the kids don't make it. At such times Pat says a rosary for the Pope to guide him to a practical decision on The Pill.But the fun has only just begun, like the time Daddy Buck almost landed in jail because Pat took the children on an innocent safari to buy shoes and underpants. Or the childless scoutmaster who prepared all the Scouts for earthquakes and floods but forgot to prepare them for going to bed on time, washing the dishes or the daddies' cars, or mowing the lawn. Or the day Pat set out for her annual vacation in the hospital and almost didn't get there because of the crush and excitement of her own kids, her neighbors' kids, two grandmothers, and an expectant father. Or Pat's secret formula for toilet training which could teach Dr. Spock a lesson but which misfired because bedlam struck again.In this charming, funny book, love, good sense, and a whacky zest for living reign together. Mothers and fathers of all 2.2 kid families will want to read But Daddy! to each other, providing their children or the grandparents do not grab it first. If you're old enough to remember Life with Father and Cheaper by the Dozen, then you're young enough to be enchanted by the most hilarious family story published in years.

    He writes about the humanity he sees in human beings who have have committed heinous crimes. All the stories are set in India during the time of British rule. The author delves into why people committed these crimes and how they come to repent.

    Famous tricks and mysterious feats of magic are explained by a master magician.

    From 1934, Thom became interested in the megalithic culture that had erected the stone circles, rows and other monuments in Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain. He began to accurately survey these sites, and in 1967 published Megalithic Sites in Britain, which claimed that the builders had been skilled surveyors and astronomers, and had used an identical and accurate unit of length to mark out their constructions throughout Britain, a length he called the Megalithic yard (2.72 feet or 0.829m).Thom also discovered that the geometry being used was based on right-angled ‘Pythagorean’ triangles, triangles whose sides were whole numbers of this same megalithic yard, or subdivisions or multiples of it. He also proposed that the builders were observing both the sun and moon using precision alignments to identified sites or natural features on a distant horizon. He even showed that they could have predicted eclipses. The book was described by archaeologist Professor Richard Atkinson as ‘a well-constructed time-bomb dropped through the letterbox of archaeology’, and it caused a huge rumpus within the profession. In effect Thom had demonstrated that there was a huge missing component in our understanding of the Megalithic culture, one that archaeologists had totally missed, and that our model of prehistory was flawed and hopelessly inadequate.

    

    Collected pieces from the Reader's Digest magazine 'The Most Unforgettable Character I Have Ever Met' article series, spanning September 1939 through 1967.

    The Cid occupies a unique position among national heroes. Others such as King Arthur and Roland are but shadowy figures in the historical record, but El Cid is very much better documented. This book also paints a striking picture of eleventh-century Spain, bringing out the importance of the country as a link between Christian and Muslim civilization.

    

    

    Introduction by Bill Mauldin, a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist for The Sun Times.At the time this was written, Royko had been writing for The Chicago Daily News for seven years. This is a collection of some of what he considered his best work at that time.Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 68-31464

    

    128 plates including 35 in colour. This volume contains large-size reproductions of nearly all the masterpieces by Rembrandt as well as generous section of drawings and etchings. Most works are reproduced in the original size.The details from the paintings have been newly photographed and are reproduced in the original size or the size slightly reduced. The introductory essay is by Henri Focillon. This follows the earliest biographies of the artist with a commentary by Ludwig Goldscheider, who also has written detailed notes on the illustrations.

    The contributors, who all knew Bohr well, give a unique historical account of his life, his work, and his way of thinking.

    Office of Education. Yale Linguistic Series.Mr. DeFrancis, research professor of Chinese at Seton Hall University, is visiting professor of Chinese at the University of Hawaii.

    Book and cassette.

    

    This biography reveals for the first time, from the full transcript, what was actually said and done. In addition, Mitchell’s lengthy 201 File-his personal military records-has until now been unavailable to any biographer. This file contains frank personal evaluations of Mitchell by his superiors (including a psychiatric examination), his own detailed reports and prophecies, as well as official reaction to them. From such previously classified documents and reports, and numerous interviews and unpublished letters, Burke Davis has finally portrayed in the round one of the most fascinating of American heroes. The Billy Mitchell Affair concentrates on the years between 1919, when Mitchell returned from World War I to lead the crusade he felt was vital to America’s security, and 1925, when the battle was publicly joined in his court-martial. It recounts with authority and fresh detail Mitchell’s fight for a separate air force, and the colorful, controversial figures he encountered-Franklin Roosevelt, General Mason Patrick (who had several wigs, one mussed up for flying), Admiral Moffett, Hap Arnold, Jimmy Doolittle, Alexander de Seversky, Generals MacArthur and Pershing; testimony from closed hearings; the complete story of the dramatic bombing of old battleships in 1921 and 1923; the first accurate picture of Mitchell's behind-the-scenes conflicts with his superiors and his running fight with the Navy, which remains an open wound to this day. Here, too, is the first full account of Mitchell’s remarkable secret reports on European and Japanese aviation-in 1923 he predicted and outlined in detail Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor and Clark Field-and how these reports were first ignored and then belittled. Finally, of course, Mitchell’s court-martial is narrated in full, with the most famous military figures of the time testifying on both sides. This extraordinary biography not only reveals at last the true story behind General Mitchell’s dramatic fight for air power, but also brings the man himself to life for the £irst time.

    The general approach in writing this text is the same as that in Beginning Chinese Reader.  It is discussed in some detail in the introduction to that work.  Salient features include:1) Selection of characters on the basis of frequency;2) Provision of a large number of compounds and a large amount of reading matter relative to the number of characters;3) Inclusion of dialogue material in order to provide students with audiolingual support of what they read;4) Close correlation with Beginning Chinese, Advanced Chinese, and the character versions of these two texts.The present volume contains 400 characters, some 2,500 compounds, and about 200,000 characters of running text.

    Clarke [editor]. The Coming of the Space Age. London: Gollancz, 1967. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 301 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket.

    Robinson knew. Her grandmother was Ellen G. White. In Stories of My Grandmother, Mrs. Robinson tells what Ellen White was like as a grandmother and a real person.

    Bestselling author Talese lays bare the secret internal intrigues behind the tradition of front page exposes in a story as gripping as a work of fiction and as immediate as today's headlines.

    L. Mencken called these "some of the most gorgeous witticisms in the English language." This edition includes eight hundred newly discovered definitions.Bierce was a contemporary of Mark Twain, and his work resembled Twain’s, if perhaps filtered through Edgar Allan Poe. Through sardonic interpretations of even the most innocuous of words, Bierce savagely but hilariously exposes the dark side of society and its conventions. The book earned him the nickname “Bitter Bierce” but also lasting acclaim. Less than a decade after The Devil’s Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce mysteriously disappeared in Mexico while covering the Mexican Revolution and was never heard from again.

    

    Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 67-10454

    

    The author, a well-known contemporary and friend of folklorist Katharine M. Briggs, collected a tremendous store of folk music material over many years and eventually decided to put some of it on permanent record. This book comprises a cross-section of rescued melodies dating back to medieval days and up to the Victorian early ballads. It describes individual folk singers in Somerset in great detail as personal accounts and documents their lyrics and their tunes, which are all together at the end of the volume.

    

    Spinning the Crystal Ball. Some Guesses at the Future of American Poetry. A Lecture Delivered at the Library of Congress - April 24, 1967

    the story of Synanon, a community of ex-drug addicts who help one another through the exhausting experience of withdrawal and rehabilitation

    Whether posing a question, begging a favor, or expressing doubt or joy, these letters are notable for their refreshing directness, unexpected humor, and startling clarity of thought. It-s like seeing the world through a child-s bright eyes untouched by cynicism, eyes brimming with innocence, wonder, and curiosity.Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club.

    It was wheat rust that caused the ancient Israelites to migrate to Egypt. Ergot of rye, source of the dreaded "holy fire", and of the modern LSD, destroyed the armies of Peter the Great at Astrakhan in 1722. Potato blight laid waste the economy of Ireland in the 1840s, and led to migrations that changed the history of the New World. England might well have been a nation of coffee-drinkers today had not the wind-borne spores of rust destroyed the coffee-trees of Ceylon in the 1880s and caused the economy of the country to be switched to tea-growing. Throughout the world, the twin problems of human fertility and agricultural impotence are multiplied by the relentless progress of parasitic plant diseases that compete for man's food. Famine on the Wind tells of some of these diseases, and of the painstaking efforts of scientists to overcome them. The book was chosen by the American Library Association as one of the best scientific books of 1967, and was highly recommended to younger readers as well as to the adult public.G. L. Carefoot and E. R. Sprott are Canadians.

    During the first, Hawaii was a monarchy ruled by native kings and queens. Then came the perilous transition period when new leaders, after failing to secure annexation to the United States, set up a miniature republic. The third period began in 1898 when Hawaii by annexation became American territory.The Hawaiian Kingdom, by Ralph S. Kuykendall, is the detailed story of the island monarchy. In the first volume, Foundation and Transformation, the author gives a brief sketch of old Hawaii before the coming of the Europeans, based on the known and accepted accounts of this early period. He then shows how the arrival of sea rovers, traders, soldiers of forture, whalers, scoundrels, missionaries, and statesmen transformed the native kingdom, and how the foundations of modern Hawaii were laid.In the second volume, Twenty Critical Years, the author deals with the middle period of the kingdom's history, when Hawaii was trying to insure her independence while world powers maneuvered for dominance in the Pacific. It was an important period with distinct and well-marked characteristics, but the noteworthy changes and advances which occurred have received less attention from students of history than they deserve. Much of the material is taken from manuscript sources and appears in print for the first time in the second volume.The third and final volume of this distinguished trilogy, The Kalakaua Dynasty, covers the colorful reign of King Kalakaua, the Merry Monarch, and the brief and tragic rule of his successor, Queen Liliuokalani. This volume is enlivened by such controversial personages as Claus Spreckels, Walter Murray Gibson, and Celso Caesar Moreno. Through it runs the thread of the reciprocity treaty with the United States, its stimulating effect upon the island economy, and the far-reaching consequences of immigration from the Orient to supply plantation labor. The trilogy closes with the events leading to the downfall of the Hawaiian monarchy and the establishment of the Provisional Government in 1893.

    With imagination and insight, the author brings Impressionism into focus by showing it through the eyes of the artists and their contemporaries, using letters, critical reviews and reminiscences of the people who were part of the story. As we see in Bernard Denvir's compelling survey, the Impressionists had new ways of painting, but they also had a new world to paint: a world of stream tricycles, emergent photography, and modern ideas about perception. 195 illus., 17 in color."Recreates the sense of immediacy and particularity often lost in general histories of the movement." --The Times Literary Supplement

    

    My wife and I have always loved it and were pleased when the author agreed to autograph it for us at the ground breaking for the LDS Missionary Training Center at BYU in Provo, Utah.

    

    

    

    

    

    

    This handsome revised edition features new line drawings and color photographs, an appendix that updates the botanical nomenclature, an introduction that focuses on B. W. Wells and his passion for the state's landscape, and an afterword that discusses the continuing relevance of Wells's ideas. One of the first scientists to write and lecture about ecology, Wells introduced North Carolinians to the extraordinary tapestry of natural gardens, or plant communities, within the state's borders back in 1932. His purpose was to help readers understand a plant within its community--a pioneering concept at the time--and to promote conservation. Moving from the Atlantic coast westward, Wells identifies eleven major natural gardens: the sand dune community, salt marsh, freshwater marsh, swamp forest, aquatic vegetation, evergreen shrub bog (or pocosin), grass-sedge bog (or savanna), sandhill, old-field community, upland forest, and high mountain spruce-fir forest. He devotes the first part of his book to a general account of the vegetation and habitats of each community and then identifies and describes the wildflowers found there.

    of Bucharest & at the Univ. of Calcutta with Surendranath Dasgupta. After taking a doctorate in 1933 with a dissertation on yoga, he taught at the Univ. of Bucharest &, after the war, at the Sorbonne in Paris. From '57, he was professor of the history of religions at the Univ. of Chicago. He was at the same time a writer of fiction, appreciated especially in Western Europe, where several of his novels & volumes of short stories appeared in French, German, Spanish & Portuguese. This book is made up of the first two chapters (Part 1) of his From Primitives to Zen: A Thematic Sourcebook of the History of Religions (1967). In his typical fashion, Eliade here has created a well organized sourcebook for the study of comparative mythology & religion. The book is organized by section & includes summaries from various scholars or translations of important mythic texts. Among others, you will find here portions of the Avestas, portions of the Rig Veda & the Uppanishads, various myths of creation from around the world etc. Additionally Homeric hymns, works by Hesiod & even parts of the Koran are included.--Christopher R. Travers

    The results of his efforts--revealed in five volumes published between 1967 and 1977--constitute one of the most searching and vigorous social studies ever undertaken by one person in the United States. Here, heard often in their own voices, are America's "children of crisis": African American children caught in the throes of the South's racial integration; The children of impoverished migrant workers in Appalachia; Children whose families were transformed by the migration from South to North, from rural to urban communities; Latino, Native American, and Eskimo children in the poorest communities of the American West; The children of America's wealthiest families confronting the burden of their own privilege. This volume restores to print a masterwork of psychological and sociological inquiry--a book that, in its focus on how children learn and develop in the face of rapid change and social upheaval, speaks directly and pointedly to our own times. Robert Coles is a professor of psychiatry and medical humanities at the Harvard Medical School, a research psychiatrist for the Harvard University Health Services, and the James Agee Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard College. ________________________________________In the 1950s Robert Coles began studying, living among, and, above all, listening to American children & their parents.

    A collection from published and unpublished documents translated and annotated by Major R. Raven-Hart.

    

    A brief history of the Russian Revolution, syndicalism, anarchism and combinations thereof.

    

    

    Courtship behaviour, choosing the nest site, incubation and the care of the young, are all referred to in detail, and will enable readers to get to know more about the immense variety of birds which rear their young in our midst. There are over 200 photographs, most of them in colour, showing birds at the nests with eggs or nestlings. The photographs are primarily from the collection of Eric Hosking and represent the results of years of patient fieldwork. The collaboration of Miss Winwood Reade and Mr. Hosking has produced a charming approach to a subject which holds and endless fascination.The 19 plates of eggs are by Portman Artists and the line illustrations by Robert Gillmor.

    

    

    

    

    

    This is a year book updating the Great Books.

    ISBN taken from 5th reprint 1996 of 1st edition 1967.

    

    

    

    

    

    

    "Had it not sounded like the title of a thriller," writes the author, "I would have called this book The Four Mysteries of Peru." From one end of Peru to the other, he frequently found himself more of a Sherlock Holmes than a normal traveller.This book leads the reader on a fascinating conducted tour of this fabulous land.

    History of the Rhine Castles between Mainz and Cologne and information about the castles.

    

    As well as those that are rare, meanings are given, along with the language stock from which names derive and, wherever possible, their present distribution.Entries are assigned to the four broad classes of surnames: first-names; localities, occupations, nicknames.