With these audacious and murderously witty stories, Donald Barthelme threw the preoccupations of our time into the literary equivalent of a Cuisinart and served up a gorgeous salad of American culture, high and low. Here are the urban upheavals reimagined as frontier myth; travelogues through countr[...]

In the 1970s Dolly Freed lived of the land dirt cheap and plum easy. Living in their own house on a half-acre lot outside of Philadelphia for almost five years, Dolly and her father produced their own food and drink and spent roughly $700 each per year. Thirty years later Dolly Freed's "Possum Livin[...]

Who makes the news in a digital age? Participatory Journalism offers fascinating insights into how journalists in Western democracies are thinking about, and dealing with, the inclusion of content produced and published by the public. * A timely look at digital news, the changes it is bringing for j[...]

." . . a well-wrought ground level view of daily life in hell."-World War II MagazineThis is the remarkable story of a German soldier who fought throughout World War II, rising from conscript private to captain of a heavy weapons company on the Eastern Front.William Lubbeck, age 19, was drafted into[...]

Features a fresh look with different covers, new "TreeTops" logo, containing parental notes on inside back cover and teaching materials. These Guided Reading comprehension cards accompany the "Stage 14: TreeTops Fiction Readers" for juniors to provide group reading support for teachers.[...]

Features a fresh look with different covers, new "TreeTops" logo, containing parental notes on inside back cover and teaching materials. These Guided Reading comprehension cards accompany the "Stage 14: TreeTops Fiction Readers" for juniors to provide group reading support for teachers.[...]

Given a fresh look with covers, a different "TreeTops" logo, this title includes parental notes on inside back cover, and also teaching materials.[...]

Given a fresh look with covers, a different "TreeTops" logo, this title includes parental notes on inside back cover, and also teaching materials.[...]

Includes covers, a "TreeTops" logo, parental notes on inside back cover, and teaching materials.

In the 1960s, as a response to segregation in the United States, the influential art patron Dominique de Menil began a research project and photo archive called "The Image of the Black in Western Art". Now, fifty years later, as the first American president of African American descent occupies his h[...]