This accessibly written book will be of great use to students beginning their explorations of this important writer.

This “superbly researched and engaging” (The Wall Street Journal) true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South—and their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors to ...

"The Italian Legacy in Philadelphia examines the impact and influence of Italian arts, culture, people, and ideas on the city of Philadelphia from the founding to the present"--

"The Death of the Lion" is a novella written through the American author Henry James. The tale revolves around the literary international of London and explores themes of reputation, creative integrity, and the results of public scrutiny.

The two books - Caribbean Challenges and The Caribbean and Beyond - can be used in any of years one, two or three of the lower secondary school.

This is the first book to explore the cultural significance of the color yellow, showing how its psychological and aesthetic value marked and shaped many of the intellectual, political, and artistic currents of late modernity.

The last king of America, George III, has been ridiculed as a complete disaster who frittered away the colonies and went mad in his old age.