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The high points in the story of Alaska since the American acquisition are brought vividly to life through more than 100 characters, real and fictional.

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Anna was 13 when the war started. Her sister Kati was 8 and her brother Nikki was 6. They lived in a small village in Germany and because they had black hair and dark eyes, the other children called them gypsies or Jews and threw stones at them. This is the story of how three German children went through the Second World War -- the trains, the air-raids, the fires, the Gestapo, the journeys -- and of how they matured and grew up on the edge of...

If you have ever thought there might be someone hiding in your closet or underneath your bed when it's time to go to sleep, this gentle little book, with wonderful before and after (the light's turned on) pictures, will bring comfort and take away all those night-time fears.

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When a body washes ashore on the banks of Puget Sound, police sergeant Lou Boldt thinks he's finally gotten the break he needs to find a twisted, perverse serial murderer. But when the pieces come together, Boldt finds two killers instead of one.

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The considerable body of vernacular texts produced by the followers of Wyclif is a significant source of insight into the theology, history, and literature of the late 14th century. Meticulously edited with full apparatus and introductions, this is the first full-scale edition of the English Wycliffite sermons for the Proper and Common of saints, together with two Wycliffite tracts.

One of the most eloquent and moving correspondences of the twentieth century, the letters that passed between Shiela Grant Duff and Adam von Trott zu Solz tell of a friendship--tender, strained, and finally tragic--between a young Englishwoman, who became a distinguished foreign correspondentin the 1930s, and a German Rhodes Scholar, who eventually joined the resistance against Hitler and was executed by the Nazis after the abortive coup of 19...

Ranging broadly between the years 1000 and 1400, Richard Kaeuper assesses the impact of war and lawmaking on the evolution of the royal governments of England and France. From the economic and political costs of war and the development of royal justice, to the crown's attempts to control private violence and the relationship between public opinion and government action, his book provides thorough coverage of issues of central importance in lat...

Embodiments of Mind, first published more than two decades ago, teems with intriguing concepts about the mind/brain that are highly relevant to current developments in neuroscience and neural networks. Preface by Jerome Y. Lettvin. Warren S. McCulloch was an original thinker, in many respects far ahead of his time. "Of all our contemporaries in brain research McCulloch is the most personal, idiosyncratic... he is at the center, the pivot of a ...

Advocates of consumer safety regulation, an active and controversial area of public policy in the United States, contend that markets do not adequately protect the interests of vulnerable consumers, market traditionalists respond that public agencies increasingly make risk/safety decisions that individual citizens ought to be making for themselves. This book, written by an economist, critically assesses the rationales for, and the effects of, ...

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