how scoring the game has influenced and enhanced the history of baseball
Dickson, Paul
1997
A guide to keeping score at baseball games, discussing the history of scoring and presenting information on how and why to score, and the various scoring systems.
a journey through the chocolate underbelly of America
Almond, Steve
2005
Examines the modern candy industry with both objectivity and humor, investigating the influence of corporate power on what sorts of chocolate bars survive and why many "quirky" ones perish.
A collection of Walker's new and unpublished poems with all her earlier poems, offering a historical perspective on the political and spiritual issues of the last three decades.
A biography of Abraham Lincoln, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carl Sandburg in 1925, covering the years Lincoln spent in the Midwest prior to being elected president.
Willie Stark, a well-intentioned, idealistic, back-country lawyer is unable to resist greed for power and lust for politics during his rise and fall as an American demagogue.
Translates Moliere's 1665 play, "Don Juan," about a seducer who follows beauty--usually in the form of a woman--wherever it takes him, while he fights the pull of Hell.