social life and customs

A collection of illustrated reproductions of Haitian art along with an introduction to its history and culture written in both English and Creole.

A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

A collection of five stories portraying Arab life in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, and Iraq today.

Beth, a Maori mother in New Zealand, decides to call upon the warrior spirit of her people in an attempt to save herself and her family from the debilitating effects of the poverty in which they live.

Text and over two hundred illustrations look at casta painting, focusing on images of race in eighteenth-century Mexico.

Examines the lives of men who chose to make their lives in the American frontier, drawing from letters, diaries, and memoirs to illuminate the experiences of homesteaders, outlaws and lawmen, farmers, doctors, Native Americans and others who experienced the challenges of pioneer life.

Presents five interconnected, sequential narratives that follow the experiences of Bobby Garfield, set in the years from 1960 to 1999, and haunted by the Vietnam War.