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A collection of essays which examine "The Bondwoman's Narrative", discussing what it revealed about slavery in the United States, who the author was, how her writing was influenced by theological, legal, and cultural contexts of antebellum American life, and other related topics.

Presents the companion book to the film that describes the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and the efforts of a hotel manager to save over one thousand people from death and contains over seventy illustrated photographs and movie stills, essays on the history of the genocide, and the complete screenplay.

Profiles the relationship between Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson and discusses how that friendship affected each author's writings.

Chronicles the events surrounding the plague of 1664 and 1665, discussing how the epidemic impacted London society, culture, and history.

Chronicles the January 15, 1919 Boston Molasses Flood that killed twenty-one people when over two million gallons of molasses poured out of the steel tank that stored it and traveled through the city's North End.

Presents a comprehensive study of women in European history and includes essays on women of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, Western Asia, the Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation periods, along with women's roles during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Explores how children have been used as soldiers around the world throughout history, focusing on new strategies in the twenty-first century that target children, turning them into soldiers and terrorists.

Chronicles the history and mystery of several centuries of plague including bioweapons programs initiated by the former Soviet Union.

Examines how free-market capitalism has influenced wealth creation and political and cultural democracy in the United States in the last twenty-five years of the twentieth century.

Presents a comprehensive examination of the story behind the splitting of the atom in the 1930s by British physicists John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton and discusses the impact of their discovery on the world.