Examines the role in history of the occupations involved with communication including authors, scribes, clerks, editors, messengers, printers, journalists, and broadcasters.
Presents a biography of Henry B. Gonzalez, Texas Congressman, and provides information on childhood as a Mexican-American, and his political career fighting discrimination, homelessness, and segregation.
Glass aficionados will find no shortage of substance in this impressive examination of the art form. Within the book are over 150 razor-sharp photographic reproductions, mostly of church windows.
Days after arriving in San Francisco from Texas, eleven-year-old orphan Nicholas Dray tries to help his new neighbors survive the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the subsequent fires.
Examines the definition of "genocide"; the response of governments and the United Nations to genocide; and genocide prevention; and presents case histories.
Elvina, the unusual granddaughter of renowned Jewish rabbi Solomon ben Isaac, who prefers studying and writing to activities considered respectable for girls, takes a great risk by helping a young boy who has run away from a group of Christian Crusaders in eleventh century Troyes, France.
