The reflective essays of one of America’s most accomplished authors. Andre Dubus is celebrated for
depicting the subtlest of human emotions and finding compassion for the most damaged, and damaging, of characters. In the essays collected here, the author turns ...
Written by one of America's most innovative and articulate feminists, this book illustrates how childhood
experience, gender and sexuality, private aspirations, and public personae all assume undeniable roles in the causes and effects of war.
In Coaching Wisdom champion coaches and their players share successful leadership principles that inspired their teams
to greatness. Mike Harrity, associate athletics director at the University of Notre Dame, has had remarkable access to the top coaches of our time, including John ...
A FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZEWhen Crime and Punishment in America was first published in
1998, the national incarceration rate had doubled in just over a decade, and yet the United States remainedby an overwhelming marginthe most violent industrialized society ...
Rodriguez's acclaimed first book, Hunger of Memory raised a fierce controversy with its views on
bilingualism and alternative action. Now, in a series of intelligent and candid essays, Rodriguez ranges over five centuries to consider the moral and spiritual landscapes ...
If you are a competitive physique athlete competing in the sports of bodybuilding, physique, classic
physique, bikini, or figure, you know and understand the importance of a contest diet to reach your goal. This book gives Dr. Jeff's diet secrets ...
From one of America's great literary figures, a new collection of essays on eminent writers
and their work, and on the war between art and life. The perilous intersection of writers' lives with public and private domains is the fertile ...
Bird migration is the world's only true unifying natural phenomenon, stitching the continents together in
a way that even the great weather systems fail to do. Scott Weidensaul follows awesome kettles of hawks over the Mexican coastal plains, bar-tailed godwits ...