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An alternative reading of one of the great American classics. Will appeal to environmentalists, ecology activists and animal rights activists, as well as those interested in literature. Contains a lively history of the arts in New York in the 1910s and a brush with the Harlem Renaissance and the avant-garde movements in the 1920s.

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Pioneering evidence is presented in this book to support the effectiveness of peer counseling for substance abuse treatment of pregnant women and their families. The authors use the theory and principles of social learning to justify the peer counselor model, known as SISTERS.

The Games of the XXIII Olympiad, Los Angeles 1984, reimagined the Olympic Games and reinvigorated a troubled Olympic movement. Its innovations included the following: a nationwide torch relay that yielded millions for children's charities, an arts festival that surpassed any prior efforts, the first Opening Ceremony featuring a professional theatrical extravaganza, new sports disciplines, such as distance races for women, windsurfing, synchron...

During the War Between the States, James McCormick, an Irish-Catholic immigrant in Potsdam, New York, works for a carriage manufacturer and wants to marry Annie Cutting, the boss's daughter. Cutting hires James to take his place in the war, promising that James and Annie can marry when James returns. The conflict between the Irish-Catholic wheelwright and the upper class English-Anglican Cuttings continues to develop as the story follows James...

The twin crises of illiteracy and youth violence haunt our age, the failure of increasing numbers of young people to attain even minimal levels of literacy signals a catastrophe at the deepest levels of our culture. A is for Ox is an important and impassioned work that both proves this conclusion and suggests what can be done to change it. Sanders argues that because of the omnipresence of electronically generated images and sounds in contempo...

The Games of the XXIII Olympiad, Los Angeles 1984, reimagined the Olympic Games and reinvigorated a troubled Olympic movement. Its innovations included the following: a nationwide torch relay that yielded millions for children's charities, an arts festival that surpassed any prior efforts, the first Opening Ceremony featuring a professional theatrical extravaganza, new sports disciplines, such as distance races for women, windsurfing, synchron...

During the nineteeth century, something vital went missing: the human being. In Unsuspecting Souls, Barry Sanders examines modern society's indifference to the individual. From the Industrial Revolution, where the disappearance of care for human beings begins slowly, to our own age, where societal events require less person-to-person interaction, Sanders laments that what makes us most human is slowly dying. Our days are filled with little but...

Since September 11, 2001, the extensive literature on the United States's image abroad, by popular pundits and academics alike, leaves the reader with a false impression that foreigners' views of America are normally negative and impervious to change. In fact they are complex, emotional, frequently internally contradictory, and often change quickly. Barry A. Sanders corrects this misimpression with a rigorous and insightful textual analysis of...

In Unsuspecting Souls, Barry Sanders examines modern society's indifference to the individual. Beginning with the Industrial Revolution, when care for human beings began to disappear slowly, and ending with the modern era, when societal events require less person-to-person interaction and introduce radical changes in common attitudes toward death and life, Sanders laments that what makes us most human is slowly dying. Our days are filled with ...

In this wonderful exploration of the meaning of laughter, Barry Sanders queries its uses from the ancient Hebrews to Lenny Bruce, turning up evidence of its age-old power to subvert authority and give voice to the voiceless.