interviews

Studies the economic decline of the anthracite region of northeastern Pennsylvania and discusses how the area's residents were affected by the closing of the mines, how the area survived, how the residents adapted, and other related topics.

Includes profiles and oral histories of political protesters such as John Sellers, Max Cleland, Nicole Rank, Jeff Rank, Tweeti Blancett, Mort Sahl, Nadin Hamoui, Paul Hackett, Bogdan Dzakovic, Randi Rhodes, Max Mecklenburg, Coleen Rowley, Lorenzo Dominguez, Paul Krugman, Kathy Kelly, John Dempsey, Teresa Chambers, Kevin Sites, Rand Beers, Jay Stroup, and Daniel Ellsberg.

Contains interviews with eleven Russian young adults conducted in 1992, in which the author discusses the changes that have taken place in their lives since he first spoke with them three years earlier, touching on issues of work, career, marriage, children, economic difficulties, and escalating crime in post-Soviet Moscow.

Profiles Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin through interviews and photos, including descriptions of his childhood, his family, his time in the KGB, and other topics.

Discusses different types of depression and ways in which it can be manifested, their possible causes, and ways of dealing with the situation.

Contains narratives by twenty-eight girls, ages fourteen to nineteen, in which they discuss their lives, dreams, and experiences.

Chronicles the history of the Monty Python comedy group, focusing on their meeting, their collaborations, their clashes, their struggles to maintain artistic control, and their efforts to expand their creativity.

First-person accounts of four homosexual Americans--three teenagers and a twenty-year-old university student.

Provides insight into the changes that have occurred in the lives of Palestinian women during the twentieth century through the stories of three mother-daughter pairs, one from East Jerusalem, another from a refugee camp in the West Bank near Bethlehem, and the third from an Arab village within Israel.