With clarity, verve, and the sure instincts of a good teacher, Madison Smartt Bell offers in this book a roll-up-your-sleeves approach to writing. Focusing on the big picture as well as the crucial details, Bell examines twelve stories by both established writers (including Peter Taylor, Mary Gaitsk[...]

The sequel to All Souls' Rising and Master of the Crossroads continues the saga of Toussaint Louverture, the leader of the successful Haitian slave revolt, as he continues his struggle to free Haiti from the bonds of slavery and to build a new society on the roots of revolution. Reprint. 10,000 firs[...]

The critically acclaimed author of All Souls' Rising provides a fictional account of the life and times of Toussaint Louverture, a gifted military and political leader who embarked on a campaign to free the slaves in late-eighteenth-century Haiti in the French colony of Saint Domingue. Reprint. 12,5[...]

Antoine Lavoisier levde vid upplysningens kulmen och tävlade mot sin tids skarpaste hjärnor för att bli den förste att förklara hur kemiska processer verkligen går till. Med hjälp av en stor förmögenhet och en bildad hustru utnyttjade han samtidens sinnrikaste och mest påkostade teknik i e[...]