In this remarkable, empathetic biography, Claire Tomalin paints a fascinating portrait of a man like no other, driven by curiosity and desiring reform, a socialist and a futurist whose new and imaginative worlds continue to inspire today.

Tracing the Gospel text from script to illustration to recitation, this study looks at how illuminated manuscripts operated within ritual and architecture.

A Boston Globe bestseller "Nothing less than a fully realized vision of a young complicated girl." —Entertainment Weekly Tomboy Alice Bliss is heartbroken when she learns that her father, Matt, is being deployed to Iraq.

This innovative book will be a noteworthy contribution to Appalachian studies, cultural and literary studies, and reception theory.

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature.

Provincial Solidarities tells the story of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour--part of the history of working class struggles in Canada.

... George Turner, and Ira Alling 40 drove a herd of cattle from Iowa to Belle Prairie in 1882. They built a log house ... Goodspeed. Through the years, he became a prosperous livestock grower and banker. He wrote his memoir in 19 9, a ...