First published in 1993, Skimin's 13th book covers Chihine Apache history from the 1500s to
1913. This work depicts Apache society and culture with understanding and empathy, resisting sentimentalism. Apache Autumn was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.Skimin's research is awesome ...
A New York Times Notable BookIn Barney Polan's Game, Charley Rosen takes on the legendary
point-shaving scandals of 1950 and '51, when the best of the college basketball players took money from gamblers in return for affecting the outcomes of ...
How does one explain US Middle East policy? When Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer wrote their
bestselling book The Israel Lobby, they attributed our pro-Israel policy to the power of the lobby itself. Others have criticized this approach as overly simplistic. Longtime Middle ...
A (Philadelphia Magazine) Top Doc’s case for moderation in running, cycling, skiing, and other things
we do because we think our bodies are invincible. When was it decided that exercise could only be good for you? Leading neurosurgeon Dr. Steve ...
Layle Silbert's stories trace struggles and joys of lives overlooked. In The Free Thinkers: Two
Novellas, she gives these lost lives a new voice, recovering in exacting detail the world of newly arrived Eastern European Jews in turn-of-the-century-America. Silbert's stories ...
On the night of May 4, 1886, during a peaceful demonstration of labor activists in
Haymarket Square in Chicago, a dynamite bomb was thrown into the ranks of police -trying to disperse the crowd. The officers immediately opened fire, killing ...
After numerous arrests for shoplifting, Martha is sent to the convent where, the judge rules,
she is to get an education. Martha is relieved to be out of the clutches of her horrible drunken stepfather, Jackser, and her feckless mother, ...
Sixteen-year-old Martha's luck is finally changing. Taken in by a kind young priest, Father Ralph
Fitzgerald, and his wealthy mother, she gets a taste of how the other half lives and resolves to make a better life for herself once ...
