"When they ask me, as of late they frequently do, how I have for so many years continued an equal interest in medicine and the poem, I reply that they amount for me to nearly the same thing."
--William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams made his mark on the world as a legendary moderni[...]

In this rich and illuminating book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author Robert Coles creates a portrait of moral leadership—what it is, and how it is achieved—through stories of people who have led and inspired him: Robert Kennedy, Dorothy Day, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Erik Erikson, a Bosto[...]

Stating that human idealism is the primary motivator behind the call to service, a collection of personal stories recounts the experiences of civil rights activists, charity workers, members of the Peace Corps and military, volunteers, and more. Reprint.[...]

In this National Book Award-winning book, Kozol unflinchingly exposes the disturbing "destruction of hearts and minds in the Boston public school." A new Epilogue assesses the last 20 years of the educational system.[...]

This renowned journalist's classic Pulitzer Prize winning investigation of schizophrenia--now reissued with a new postscript--follows a flamboyant and fiercely intelligent young woman as she struggles in the throes of mental illness."Sylvia Frumkin" was born in 1948 and began showing signs of schizo[...]

Through intimate letters, interviews, and stories, this narrative reveals the impact that a life-changing retreat had on a group of inmates at the highest level maximum-security state prison in Alabama. The 38 participants in the first-ever intensive, silent 10-day program inside the walls of a corr[...]