Describes addiction to alcohol, drugs, and nicotine, discussing the psychology of addiction, the role of heredity, the impact of addiction on society, and treatments.
Examines the development of costume and fashion over the course of history, focusing on the styles and trends of Elizabethan England, from 1558 to the early seventeenth century. Includes photographs and a time line.
A collection of essays, first published in 1903, in which the author examines the role, influence, and perceptions of African-American men and women in turn-of-the-century society.
The autobiography of author Mary Antin, who immigrated to the United States from her native Russia in the 1890s at the age of 12, detailing the excitements and challenges she encountered as she struggled to assimilate into American life.
Disregard for messages from the oracles and gods doesn't turn out well for characters in Greek stories, and Oedipus is no exception. Encompassing murder and betrayal, incest and patricide, this set of three plays follows the life of a man doomed to suffer from birth.
Social psychologist Philip Zimbardo explores the many reasons why people are susceptible to immoral actions, revealing the situational forces and group dynamics that work together to make good people do bad things.
Tells the story of two sisters: Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a child-wife living in the South, in the medium of their letters to each other and in Celie's case, the desperate letters she begins, "Dear God.".
Contains nine short stories by American author Sarah Orne Jewett, in which she explores different aspects of village life in nineteenth-century New England.
When fifteen-year-old Will is rejected by battleschool, he becomes the reluctant apprentice to the mysterious Ranger Halt, and winds up protecting the kingdom from danger.
