Examines the history of science in Germany during the first half of the twentieth century, discussing the contributions of German scientists in the natural sciences, medicine, mathematics, and technology, and looking at how that knowledge was subverted to serve Nazi agendas.
An unabridged republication of a 1930 text which provides a description and analysis of the building practices of ancient Egypt, discussing quarrying methods, transportation of materials, pyramid construction, and other topics.
Tells the story of St. John Baptist Church in South Carolina, the focus of repeated vandalism, and shows how two women, one African-American and the other white, worked to form a multiracial coalition to rebuild St. John and lead the fight against hate crime.
taking on the corporate government in an age of surrender
Nader, Ralph
2002
Social critic and activist Ralph Nader chronicles the 2000 presidential campaign, in which he ran for the Green Party, and discusses weaknesses in the other parties and the future of the political system.
Reprint of a 1934 text in which the author meditates upon the design and goals of literary culture, chronicling the conditions, ideas, and experiences that shaped American writing in the early twentieth century, and paying homage to the nurturing atmosphere of Paris in the 1920s.
a painter and her patrons in sixteenth-century Bologna
Murphy, Caroline
2003
Profiles the work of Bolognese painter Lavinia Fontana and discusses how she became the most significant and prolific woman artist of Renaissance Europe.
Traces the history of coal, discussing how it has been used in different cultures, how it is mined, what negative effects it has had on people, economics, and the environment, and the role it has played in world history and development.
