The history of seven unique American combat "aces" of World War II and Korea.

Volume I of the masterful Cairo Trilogy. A national best-seller in both hardcover and paperback, it introduces the engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation by British forces in the early 1900s.

Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt—Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street—together in one volume.The masterwork of the Nobel Prize-winning author, the three novels of The Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. P...

At the Black Rocks (Illustrated) is a juvenile adventure tale shaped by the moral and descriptive habits of late nineteenth-century American popular fiction. Set against a rugged coastal landscape, the narrative uses danger, discovery, and youthful testing to explore courage, conscience, companionship, and providential order. Its prose is direct yet pictorial, attentive to sea, stone, weather, and the educative force of place; the illustrations reinforce the book's episodic movement and it...

The Legends of the Iroquois gathers traditional tales associated with the Haudenosaunee peoples—stories of origins, moral instruction, heroic encounter, supernatural agency, and the living presence of the natural world. Canfield's prose is shaped by the literary habits of nineteenth-century antiquarianism: elevated, earnest, and narrative-driven, yet attentive to the symbolic density of oral tradition. The volume belongs to a period when Indigenous oral literatures were increasingly being ...

In the captivating anthology 'Hearts on the Wild Trail - 8 Classic Frontier Courage Stories,' readers will journey through a tapestry of rugged landscapes and indomitable human spirit. The overarching theme of frontier courage is explored through a variety of literary styles, from vivid adventure tales to introspective narratives, capturing the essence of life on the edge of civilization. This collection features a diverse range of stories that illuminate the harsh realities and thrilling ...

Rebellion and Ruin at Sea - 10 Classic Mutiny, Wreck & Survival Stories is a captivating anthology that sails through the tempestuous seas of human fortitude, rebellion, and survival. This collection brings together a wide array of literary styles from gripping narratives of mutinies to tales of shipwrecks and the unyielding human spirit in the face of nature's wrath. The selection of works presents significant themes of defiance, perseverance, and the quest for redemption, diving deeply i...

An invitation to a conversation about the direction of our worship life.The Anglican colloquium of the North American Academy of Liturgy acknowledged the need for a collection of insights to aid in the liturgical formation of the Episcopal Church as we move into liturgical revision. The volume's contributions have been shaped around the clauses of resolution A068, looking at the ways in which parishes and individuals can live into this time of revision and creativi...

After the pioneers, the second generation of African American anthropologists trained in the late 1950s and 1960s. Expected to study their own or similar cultures, these scholars often focused on the African diaspora but in some cases they also ranged further afield both geographically and intellectually. Yet their work remains largely unknown to colleagues and students. This volume collects intellectual biographies of fifteen accomplished African American anthropologists of the era. The a...

The Explorer's Library: 60 Adventure Classics surveys the enduring literature of peril, discovery, travel, and imaginative escape. Its selections range from maritime narratives, imperial romances, frontier tales, and survival stories to speculative voyages, detective-inflected adventures, and children's fantasy. Sea crossings, lost worlds, treasure quests, wilderness encounters, and voyages beyond ordinary geography reveal adventure fiction as a flexible form through which writers tested c...

60 Adventure Classics surveys the extraordinary vitality of adventure writing from the eighteenth through the early twentieth century, gathering sea tales, imperial romances, frontier narratives, detective exploits, voyages of discovery, and imaginative journeys. Its range extends from satire and historical romance to juvenile fiction, survival narrative, and proto-science fiction, revealing adventure as a capacious form in which danger, mobility, technology, and moral testing converge. Ta...

Civilization and sea power arose from the Mediterranean, and the progress of recent archeological research has shown that civilizations and empires had been reared in the Mediterranean on sea power long before the dawn of history. Since the records of Egypt are far better preserved than those of any other nation of antiquity, and the discovery of the Rosetta stone has made it possible to read them, we know most about the beginnings of civilization in Egypt. We know, for instance, that an E...