If you've ever been tongue-tied - or if you've ever given a tongue-lashing (and regretted it), Tongue Fu! offers constructive alternatives that will turn hostility into harmony and help you avoid a mental breakdown in the face of aggression. With straightforward strategies and proven techniques, Ton[...]

The author charts the brief but colorful history of the saxophone, from its invention 160 years ago, through its subsequent role as a symbol of decadence and immorality, to its impact on music, particularly American jazz. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.[...]

This short book provides a succinct account of changes in children’s work and welfare in Britain between 1780 and 1890. It examines both the scale and the nature of child employment and the changing attitude of society towards it at a time when Britain was becoming the ‘workshop of the wor[...]

Book & 2 CDs. The native language of about 23 million people, Dutch is spoken in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname (the three states of the Dutch Language Union), and holds official status in the Caribbean nations of Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, and St Maarten. Ideal for those new to the language, [...]

Michigan State University Press is proud to announce the re-release Harriette Simpson Arnow's 1949 novel Hunter's Horn, a work that Joyce Carol Oates called our most unpretentious American masterpiece. In Hunter's Horn, Arnow has written the quintessential account of Kentucky hill people -- the quin[...]

Following the release of their 2012 best-seller Petrus Romanus: The Final Pope Is Here, Tom Horn and Cris Putnam were inundated with invitations from around the world to be interviewed on radio, television, and in print media. These included segments in The History Channel's "Countdown to Apocalypse[...]

Inside South Africa s Kruger National Park, ranger Promise discovers the remains of a crashed military drone and a live missile. Immediately, Promise calls her uncle, Juma, a rhino-poaching kingpin and an illegal arms dealer. With Promise s help, Juma has kept her and her grandparents out of crushin[...]

On the afternoon of June 25, 1867, an overwhelming force of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians quickly mounted a savage onslaught against General George Armstrong Custer's battalion, driving the doomed troopers of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry to a small hill overlooking the Little Bighorn River, where Custer an[...]

Of the three surgeons who accompanied Custer's Seventh Cavalry on June 25, 1876, only the youngest, twenty-eight-year-old Henry Porter, survived that day's ordeal, riding through a gauntlet of Indian attackers and up the steep bluffs to Major Marcus Reno's hilltop position. But the story of Dr. Port[...]