eugenics

U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner Chuck Aule begin to fear for their own lives and sanity when their investigation on Shutter Island into how a patient escaped the Ashcliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane yields more questions than answers.

A comprehensive collection of critical commentaries on Joseph Conrad's classic novel "Heart of Darkness, " including those from contemporaries Henry James and Virginia Woolf; along with the complete text of the novel.

Molly Ballou, an Abenaki-French Canadian girl in 1920s Vermont, is haunted by her dead sister and her family's secrets as the government tries to force the Ballous and their neighbors out of their homes in an attempt to rid the state of its poor citizens.

When an old man puts a piece of land up for sale in Vermont, the local Abenaki Indian tribe protest, claiming it is a burial ground, and when odd, supernatural events start plaguing the town, a ghost hunter is hired by the developer to help convince residents that there is nothing spiritual about the property.

When an old man puts a piece of land up for sale in Vermont, the local Abenaki Indian tribe protest, claiming it is a burial ground, and when odd, supernatural events start plaguing the town, a ghost hunter is hired by the developer to help convince residents that there is nothing spiritual about the property.

When an old man puts a piece of land up for sale in Vermont, the local Abenaki Indian tribe protest, claiming it is a burial ground, and when odd, supernatural events start plaguing the town, a ghost hunter is hired by the developer to help convince residents that there is nothing spiritual about the property.

Provides concise descriptions of the leading figures, organizations, events, legislation, publications, concepts and terms related to the eugenics movement.

When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1995 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children.

After seventeen-year-old Cam Stewart escapes from the kidnappers who took him from right in front of his San Diego home, he continues a dangerous adventure that includes finding a mysterious chip in his arm which leads him to question his identity.

Examines the role the Ahnenerbe, a research institute created by powerful Nazi officer Heinrich Himmler, played in the Holocaust, discussing how the institute's attempts to prove the superiority of the Aryan race throughout history was used to justify the extermination of the Jews.