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From one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians--a revelatory portrait of Benjam[...]

The album that earned soul legend Aretha Franklin her first major hits, "I Never Loved A Man the Way I Loved You "was a pop and soul music milestone. Apart from its status as a hit record, the album also had a much wider cultural impact. By early 1967, when the album was released, the Civil Rights m[...]

Introduces the life of one of the most effective and influential presidents in American history Franklin Delano Roosevelt is one of the best known and most influential presidents in U.S. history. Successfully guiding the country through the Great Depression and World War II, FDR also forever changed[...]

In Precalculus, the authors encourage graphical, numerical, and algebraic modeling of functions as well as a focus on problem solving, conceptual understanding, and facility with technology.  They have created a book that is designed for instructors and written for students making this the most eff[...]

This edition features the exact same content as the traditional book in a convenient, three-hole- punched, loose-leaf version. Books a la Carte also offer a great value--this format costs significantly less than a new textbook. Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data, Third Edition, he[...]

Alan Agresti and Chris Franklin have merged their research and classroom experience to develop this successful introductory statistics text. Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data, Third Edition, helps students become statistically literate by encouraging them to ask and answer intere[...]

Amos, Mississippi, is a quiet town. Silas Jones is its sole law enforcement officer. The last excitement here was nearly twenty years ago, when a teenage girl disappeared on a date with Larry Ott, Silas' one-time boyhood friend. The law couldn't prove Larry guilty, but the whole town has shunned him[...]

A dazzling exploration of American culture--from high pop to highbrow--by acclaimed music authority, cultural historian, and biographer Anthony Heilbut, author of the now classic "The Gospel Sound" ("Definitive" --"Rolling Stone"), "Exiled in Paradise," and "Thomas Mann" ("Electric"--Harold Brodkey)[...]

Franklin D. Roosevelt was born into one of the wealthiest families in America, yet this ultimate rich kid grew up to do more for ordinary Americans than any other president. This appealing picture book biography shows how, from childhood on, FDR was compassionate, cheerful, determined, and enormousl[...]

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He was the foremost American of his day, yet today he is little more than a mythic caricature in the public imagination. Benjamin Franklin, perhaps "the "pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this masterly biography.
Wit, diplomat,[...]

In 1970, a young Indian who introduced himself as Gregory Tah-Kloma beached his canoe near the author's Babine Lake campsite in the backwoods of British Columbia. Night after night by the campfire, the young Indian told the remarkable story of his devotion to a pack of timber wolves and their legend[...]

In his extraordinary biography of an extraordinary couple, Joseph P. Lash reconstructs the Roosevelt s four-decade marriage from Eleanor s personal papers. The result is an intimate look at the vibrant private world of the public persona."[...]

The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Eighth Edition, features a diverse and balanced variety of works and thorough but judicious editorial apparatus throughout. The new edition, which also newly includes much-requested authors and selections and 130 in-text images, remains an unmatch[...]