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A fascinating study of a rarely covered topic, Agriculture in History is the first reference set built around individual events in agricultural history. Coverage goes as far back as the rise of agriculture in northern Africa and Asia in 9000 B.C.E through the modern technological advances of today.

A fascinating study of a rarely covered topic, Agriculture in History is the first reference set built around individual events in agricultural history. Coverage goes as far back as the rise of agriculture in northern Africa and Asia in 9000 B.C.E through the modern technological advances of today.

Magill's Literary Annual, 2009 is the fifty-fifth publication in a series that began in 1954. Each year, Magill's Literary Annual seeks to critically evaluate 200 major examples of serious literature, both fiction and nonfiction, published during the previous calendar year. This year's authors include David Sedaris, Christopher Buckley, and Ha Jin.

Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain...these are the people who helped shape the history of music. Their stories and others are told in Musicians and Composers of the 20th Century. This five volume set offers biographical and critical essays on over 600 musicians in just about every genre imaginable, from Accordion Players to Musical Theater Composers to World Music, and everything in between.

The second title in the ground-breaking Milestone Document series, this new set pairs primary source texts with expert analysis by esteemed historians. Milestone Documents of American Leaders features important full-text sources written by presidents, jurists, legislators and other influential people who helped shape the nation.

This story, the first book in the Mary Jane series, recounts the happy, wholesome adventures of five-year-old Mary Jane and her family as she helps her mother around the house, goes on a picnic with the big girls, plants a garden with her father, learns to sew and more!

This story, the first book in the Mary Jane series, recounts the happy, wholesome adventures of five-year-old Mary Jane and her family as she helps her mother around the house, goes on a picnic with the big girls, plants a garden with her father, learns to sew and more!

Emperor Constantine has proclaimed Christianity the official religion ofthe Roman Empire, ushering in a new era for the Church. Quadratus, ayoung Christian soldier assigned to Constantine's bodyguard, watches asthe Church is transformed from scattered groups of devoted believers toa fashionable means of political advancement. Arriving home for a visit, Quadratus finds that his younger sister, Placidia, is determined to becomea nun in spite of ...

By A.D. 594 the Christian church has become divided into many competing sects. At a Syrian market, two Christian women are sold as slaves to a young merchant named Mohammed who is searching for truth as well as riches. One of the slaves, Lollia, is eventually sold to the Lady Paulina and taken back to Rome, once the center of the world, but now fallen into disrepair and menaced constantly by the hostile Lombards just outside the walls. Inside ...

Emperor Constantine has proclaimed Christianity the official religion ofthe Roman Empire, ushering in a new era for the Church. Quadratus, ayoung Christian soldier assigned to Constantine's bodyguard, watches asthe Church is transformed from scattered groups of devoted believers toa fashionable means of political advancement. Arriving home for a visit, Quadratus finds that his younger sister, Placidia, is determined to becomea nun in spite of ...

When Flaminius, a high Roman official, takes his wife, Flavia, and her sister to the Colosseum to see Christians thrown to the lions, he has no idea the effect it will have on all of their lives. Flavia cannot forget the faith of the martyrs, and is drawn more and more to a God who can give such courage in the face of death, but then rumors begin to fly about her forsaking the worship of the gods. Finally, to protect her from complete disgrace...

When Flaminius, a high Roman official, takes his wife, Flavia, and her sister to the Colosseum to see Christians thrown to the lions, he has no idea the effect it will have on all of their lives. Flavia cannot forget the faith of the martyrs, and is drawn more and more to a God who can give such courage in the face of death, but then rumors begin to fly about her forsaking the worship of the gods. Finally, to protect her from complete disgrace...

Saxon England in 1053 is a time of violence, cruelty and ignorance where the strong dominate and mercy and compassion are scarce. Young Gytha longs to leave behind the evil of the world and enter a convent where she can devote herself to learning more about the God who loves even a little slave girl. Instead she lives in a household that scorns the very name of Christ. Gytha's mistress, the Lady Hilda, is an invalid whose afflictions have made...

This volume of criticism brings together a variety of new, classic, and contemporary essays on this major American novel. New essays offer a comprehensive introduction to the novel's key themes, social context, and critical history as well as a complete survey of Steinbeck criticism. One essay describes an actual Okie migration in comparison to Steinbeck's fictional depiction, while other essays discuss the novel's Christian symbolism, assess ...

The essays in this volume bring together a variety of new, classic, and contemporary criticism on Hemingway's masterpiece. Essay topics include an exploration of the novel's cultural context with a discussion of Hemingway's involvement in the Parisian expatriate community, the portrayal of masculinity and femininity within the novel against the cultural changes brought on by war, and perspectives on the kind of morality the novel offers and wh...

The essays in this volume address a multitude of viewpoints on Crane's most famous work. Two new essays examine how the culture of the 1890 and its clashes over immigration, industrialization and poverty influenced Crane and how John Paul Sartre's existentialism can improve our understanding of the novel. Another essay offers a comprehensive survey of the multitude of criticism on Red Badge of Courage. Still others examine the use of humor in ...

This volume of the Critical Insights series opens with a reflection of Poe's aesthetics, and offers a consideration of Poe's distinctive contribution to American poetry. Other essays contextualize Poe's invocation of the exotic in poems such as "Tamerlane, " "Al Aaraaf" "Ulalume, " and "The Raven" against nineteenth-century travel narratives, analyze Poe's poetics of memory and grief and discuss Poe's influence on other major poets such as Bau...

Easily one of America's most important novelists, John Steinbeck has been a favorite among readers of all kinds for decades. New essays describe the social and historical contexts to which Steinbeck responded in his work, evaluate the novelist's relationship with literary naturalism, and offer an ecofeminist reading of the stories of The Long Valley. Other essay selections introduce readers to key issues in the critical discussion of Steinbeck...

A series of introductory essays acquaints readers with the key themes and contexts of Baldwin's work, the culture and politics of his time. Classic and contemporary pieces discuss Baldwin's essays and their cultural and political context. Other essays discuss Baldwin's novel Go Tell It on the Mountain and its themes of regret, recollection and confession, and the themes of nostalgia and sexual desire in Giovanni's Room and "Going to Meet the Man.

Among the twentieth century's greatest playwrights, Arthur Miller is recognized today as a formative influence on modern American drama. The essays in this set provide valuable context for studying his works. Essay topics include a discussion of the family dynamics of the father-son plays All My Sons and Death of a Salesman, the flawless architecture of Miller's plays, and a thorough account of Miller's early reviews as well as later critical ...