Provides an overview of the history and culture of Germany, and includes discussion of the country's religion, literature, media and cinema, performing arts, painting, architecture, geography, holidays, education, and society.
Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara chronicles his 1952 adventure on motorbike throughout South America with friend Alberto Granado, during which he came face-to-face with the realities of poverty throughout the continent.
Journalist Ted Botha, newly arrived in New York from South Africa, tells how he was able to decorate his apartment with furniture he retrieved from the trash, and describes his experiences and the people he met on his scavenging adventures.
Contains nineteen essays in which the authors examine various aspects of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, discussing the origins of the movements, its major figures and artists, and the challenges they faced.
The author discusses her idyllic childhood in Shirley, New York, a typical American working-class town, and considers how attitudes toward the town changed when neighbors began getting sick from waste from a nearby nuclear laboratory.
Examines the role nature played in twentieth-century American life, discussing American ideas of nature, the use of natural resources, natural disasters and weather trends, and other related topics.
A comprehensive overview of the Harlem Renaissance that discusses the concept of the New Negro, the foundation and international context of the movement, major authors and texts, and the post-Renaissance.
