With this act of violence--which is loosely based on the notorious 1955 killing of Emmett Till--James Baldwin launches an unsparing and at times agonizing probe of the wounds of race. For where once a white storekeeper could have shot a boy like Richard Henry with impunity, times have changed. And centuries of brutality and fear, patronage and contempt, are about to erupt in a moment of truth as devastating as a shotgun blast.In his award-winning play, Baldwin turns a murder and its aftermath into an inquest in which even the most well-intentioned whites are implicated--and in which even a killer receives his share of compassion.

    It includes poems by Edmund Blunden, Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon and sixty-six others.

    But as night falls and the season begins to change, Neddy sinks from optimistic bliss to utter despair.

    He hides in a cave, where he meets a mysterious stranger who saves his life. He hides in the village, posing as a deaf-mute peasant boy. He hides among the partisans of the Jewish resistance. But where, he asks, is God hiding? And where can one find redemption in a world that God has abandoned? In a story punctuated by friendship and fear, sacrifice and betrayal, Gregor's wartime wanderings take us deep into the ghost-filled inner world of the survivor.

    These retellings of Shakespeare stories focus on "The Taming of the Shrew", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "The Merchant of Venice", "Henry IV Part 1", "Henry V", "Twelfth Night", "Julius Caesar", "Hamlet", "King Lear", "Macbeth" and "The Tempest".

    Adventure story of Billy and his pony Blaze on a camping trip to an old Indian Cave.

    This is a reprint of a revised and enlarged edition, where the author has added important new chapters on Melanie Klein's early work and on technique, as well as a complete chronological list of her publications.

    His research helped to define--and continues to give depth to--the area of American studies concerned with the links between scientific and technological advances, and the way society and culture both determine these links. The Machine in the Garden fully examines the difference between the pastoral and progressive ideals which characterized early 19th-century American culture, and which ultimately evolved into the basis for much of the environmental and nuclear debates of contemporary society.This new edition is appearing in celebration of the 35th anniversary of Marx's classic text. It features a new afterword by the author on the process of writing this pioneering book, a work that all but founded the discipline now called American Studies.

    Amusing illustrated directions for making toys and other items out of simple materials, explained in beginning-reader language.A Book of Things to Make and Do:A Zum Zum Fiddle, Limp Lamps, Humdinger, Flibber, Sweet Pete, Whirligig, Party Mats, Jungle, Twirly Bird, Screecher, Yakky Pup, Potato Prints, Present for Dad, Phony Phone, Stickit Picture, Creepy Willy, Nip Bug, Huffel Hat, Walking Thing, Clompy Clown, Ding Dong Music, Link Link Chain, Spud Bunny, Goofy Garden, Tippy Top, Parachute, Two-horned Noser, Wind Thing, Birds Happy and Moogle Mask.

    It didn't make any sense at all. But Owlie just knew that he wanted Mystery. In a summer of surprises, Owlie learns a lot about horses and people--including the strange visitor on the island. And in the end, Owlie and Mystery teach the whole town an important lesson.Marjorie Reynolds has written a lively story for pre-teen-age readers about the growing up one boy does in a summer.

    Parents trust these colorful books to teach their children Bible stories from Genesis through Acts in a fun, memorable way.The Arch Books series of 100 titles is conveniently divided into 8 sections that include related stories for an organized journey through the Bible.

    

    

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    And a bibliography of recommended translations of Greek and Latin prose and poetry.“A knowledge of classical mythology is indispensable in understanding and appreciating much of the great literature, sculpture, and painting of both the ancients and the moderns. Unless we know the marvelous stories of the deities and heroes of the ancients, their great literature and art as much later work down to the present day will remain unintelligible. Through the centuries from Chaucer, Spencer, Shakespeare, and Milton on, not only the major writers but also hundreds of lesser writers have retold the old tales or used them as a point of departure for new interpretations in terms of contemporary problems and psychology.”—From author’s Introduction

    

    Major changes include increasing the emphasis on the use of calculators and calculator-related exercises, minimizing the use of tables, avoiding the use of logarithms to solve triangles, and stressing graphing.

    He examines in detail Hindenburg's role during the fateful days when Hitler was forcing his way to the top, scheming to overthrow the republic of which President Hindenburg eventually appointed him chancellor.

    Here, four of their adventures are presented in the same volume! In time for spring-cleaning, the Bears decide to have a yard sale in The Berenstain Bears Clean House. Brother and Sister Bear step up to the plate in The Berenstain Bears Play T-Ball. Will they be able to put together a winning team? Brother and Sister must learn to take care of their pet in The Berenstain Bears' New Pup. When Brother and Sister find a baby chipmunk in the garden, they are eager to take care of him in The Berenstain Bears and the Baby Chipmunk Beginning readers will love spending time with the enormously popular Berenstain Bears.Stan & Jan Berenstain were already successful cartoonists when they had a great idea for a children's book. Their sons, Leo and Mike, had just begun to read, and they decided to create a funny family who would have the everyday adventures children really want to read about. The first story starring the Bear family, The Big Honey Hunt, appeared in 1962. Since then, more than 250 Berenstain Bears books have been published, and over 260 million copies sold, making the Berenstain Bears arguably the best-selling children's book series ever.

    In the course of an afternoon, Hagar’s life unfolds: her childhood in a small prairie town, her Scottish immigrant father, the tumultuous relationship with her now-estranged husband, her sons, and their partners. Based on the novel by Margaret Laurence.

    

    

    Yoder’s novel contribution to the debate concerning the church’s and the Christian’s calling is his starting point. He insists that Christ, through his death and resurrection, is now exercising dominion over the world. God has reclaimed his intention for creation. Thus the structures of the social order has as much potential for good as for evil. The church belongs in this world; it has a mission to and even with society.

    Planters and farmers fled before the invaders, allowing virtually all their possessions, including ten thousand slaves, to fall into Union hands. Rehearsal for Reconstruction, winner of the Allan Nevins Prize, the Francis Parkman Prize, and the Charles S. Sydnor Prize, is historian Willie Lee Rose’s chronicle of change in the Sea Island region from its capture in 1861 through Reconstruction. With epic sweep, Rose demonstrates how Port Royal constituted a stage upon which a dress rehearsal for the South’s postwar era was acted out.

    He seeks to provide, by means of this book, some stimulation for investigators of human motivation to seek better ways of measuring human spirit or levels of "inspiration" by bringing these phenomena within the scope of scientific analysis and thereby fostering further research into this important area.