American environmentalist writer Edward Abbey presents essays about his travels to Australia's outback, a Mexican desert island, and several places in the American West, as well as personal memoirs and commentaries on American lifestyles.
Presents a comprehensive biography of Pope Benedict XVI, tracing Joseph Ratzinger's childhood growing up in Adolf Hitler's Germany and his early academic career, and examines his philosophical and theological opinions on several issues that have plagued the Catholic church in the last several decades.
A collection of illustrations in which Frederich Ordway depicts a variety of space-age scenes more than twenty years before space travel was a reality.
Traces the life and accomplishments of Mexican American labor leader Cesar Chavez, who founded the United Farm Workers union to promote better wages and working conditions for migrants and other farm workers.
A brief biography of the migrant farm worker who led the nation-wide boycott of grapes as part of his movement to organize and help farm laborers in the United States.
