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Eleven Stories High is a memoir of a middle-class New York childhood, the perceptions of a girl growing up in a housing project that she deemed a "utopia of the fifties." The story follows the process of memory, rather than the conventions of chronology, and explores the concept of "home, " how a place like Stuyvesant Town -- impersonal, symmetrical, utilitarian -- shapes a childhood.

Eurhythmics, a dynamic, active approach to teaching and learning music, was developed by Swiss musician Emile Jaques-Dalcroze. These complete, sequenced lessons give clear examples of the method in practice. Ideal for preschool and early elementary music classes, the lessons include detailed procedures, stories for creative movement, songs with piano accompaniments, examples for piano improvisation, and numerous exercises in rhythmic movement.

For nearly 2, 000 years Barabbas Jonas has been trying to figure out exactly what to do with the nasty gift of immortality. He's about to get his answer. "Destroying Angel" chronicles God's last six days creating His very own Destroying Angel.

Required reading for anyone wishing to understand the war and the media's role in it.' --The New Internationalist

When a gorgeous young heiress is fatally shot and stabbed, Mulheisen must discover the connection between the murder and a $20 million embezzlement scandal. He must also locate the money and discover who is the suntanned stranger tracking down the same leads, only one step ahead.

This updated and expanded second edition of this book offers the best cycling routes in southern New Hampshire.

Having panhandled as a "deaf" man for 11 years, the author has written a book exposing all the ins and outs of his life exploiting a "disability" to earn hundreds of dollars a day and sheds light on the cultural phenomenon of deaf peddling that thrives today. Illustrations.

The Southern Tenant Farmers' Union was founded in eastern Arkansas in 1934 to protest the New Deal's enrichment of Southern cotton barons at the expense of suffering sharecroppers, both black and white. Their courageous struggle, in the face of determined and often violent resistance from their landlords, is the subject of this thorough study from Donald H. Grubbs, which was published to critical acclaim in 1971.Cry from the Cotton was the fir...

Dead End Kids" exposes both the depravity and the humanity in gang life through the eyes of a teenaged girl named Cara, a member of a Kansas City gang. In this shocking yet compassionate account, Mark Fleisher shows how gang girls' lives are shaped by poverty, family disorganization, and parental neglect.

Louisiana is known for its rich, complex cultural heritage, but even in Louisiana, the question "What is a Creole?" is often answered in a number of ways. In Creoles of Louisiana, George Washington Cable knowledgeably addresses this question with precision and aplomb. Originally published in 1884, Creoles of Louisiana builds on earlier explorations of the lives of the white descendants of early French and Spanish immigrants during the transito...

In the twelve months before his sudden death, Hans Urs von Balthasar had been writing a series of reflections on the twelve articles of the Apostles' Creed. These texts, which are undoubtedly among the last things he wrote, take on the character of a legacy, a spiritual testament. For they amount in their extraordinary compactness and depth to a little "summa" of his theology. What he had set out in detail in numerous book over five decades, h...

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