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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDIn 1964, Jonathan Kozol entered the Boston Public School system to teach fourth grade at one of its most overcrowded inner-city schools. Here, he unflinchingly exposes the disturbing "destruction of hearts and minds in the Boston public school." Death at an Early Age is the unsparing, heart-wrenching account of the year he spent there-the most shocking and powerful personal story ever told by a young teacher, n...

Based on conversations with families and individuals from Kenya to Guatemala, Mexico to Thailand, a diplomatic correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor unveils the human face of the population crisis, traces its history and evolution, and explains why the decisions made during the '90s will determine the fate of the earth as a home for human beings.

In recent years, America's interior West has produced an important group of writers whose work has reflected the region, its people, and their concerns. This collection includes works from some of the best writers of the "sagebrush school" of American literature--William Kittredge, N. Scott Momaday, Charles Bowden, Linda Hogan, and others.

A candid inquiry into the intertwining of religious and sexual fervor, and a telling portrait of the United States at the end of the nineteenth century, this novel foreshadows the rise of naturalism in American literature.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1, 700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughou...

From the Booker Prize-winning author of "Disgrace" comes a second volume of memoir that "proves yet again that the awkward young man did indeed become a 'real artist'"--"The Wall Street Journal.

The best, most comprehensive, and most balanced single-volume biography of Washington ever written." -Gordon S. Wood, "The New York Review of Books" Celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With a breadth and depth matched by no other onevolume life of George Washington, this crisply paced narrative carries the reader through his adventurous early years, his heroic exploits with the Cont...

Gabriel Allon must travel the world to track down a painting worth killing for in this #1 New York Times bestseller. Having retreated to the windswept cliffs of Cornwall with his beautiful wife, Gabriel Allon's seclusion is interrupted by an eccentric London art dealer with a problem. An art restorer has been brutally murdered and a portrait by Rembrandt stolen-and only Gabriel can find it. But as he pursues the masterpiece across the globe, G...

Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying an unusual cargo-a menagerie of savage animals. Nursed to recovery by their keeper Montgomery, who gives him dark medicine that tastes of blood, Prendick soon finds himself stranded upon an uncharted island in the Pacific with his rescuer and the beasts. There, he meets the sinister Dr. Moreau-a brilliant scientist whose notor...

The classic science fiction novel that captures and expands on the vision of Stanley Kubrick's immortal film-and changed the way we look at the stars and ourselves.From the savannas of Africa at the dawn of mankind to the rings of Saturn as man ventures to the outer rim of our solar system, 2001: A Space Odyssey is a journey unlike any other.This allegory about humanity's exploration of the universe-and the universe's reaction to humanity-is a...