In 11 CE, the Yellow River broke its banks and drowned the farmland of eastern China. By 17 CE, the displaced and desperate had begun to fight back.The Red Eyebrow Rebellion — named for the paint its fighters daubed across their faces to distinguish friend from enemy — was among the most extraordinary popular insurgencies in Chinese imperial history. Born in the flooded lowlands of Shandong, built by a coalition of fishing communities and dispossessed farmers under Fan Chong's tact...

In 1940s New Orleans, Mary Lee Morris dreams of creating a loving and secure home for her family. Her marriage to William Bernard Williams begins a new chapter filled with hope, duty, sacrifice, and the everyday demands of raising children during uncertain times. At the center of their lives stands the house at 3239 Bloomingdale Court—a place that will hold far more than walls and rooms. It will hold people, stories, sorrow, and return.When tragedy leaves Mary Lee a widow, she must...

What do we really know about the people who came before us?In Beneath the Surface, the life of Edward William Murrell becomes the doorway into a much larger family story—one shaped by military service, migration, marriage, loss, memory, and the difficult work of separating fact from family legend.Edward was a United States Navy veteran remembered by his family as a diver, a man with a big smile, and someone whose later work brought him close to death and the offici...

A family name can survive even when history forgets the man who carried it.Born in 1896, William Percy Williams comes of age among the roaring glass furnaces and unforgiving steel mills of western Pennsylvania. As the son of George Williams and Josephine C. Payton Williams, he inherits more than a name—he inherits the struggle to build a life in a country where a Black man's labor is often recorded more carefully than his story.William's journey carries him through marriage...

Paris (2013) is Wiliam Roberts' most ambitious work to date and can best be described as a contemporary historical novel. It concerns an extended family of Russian émigrés struggling to survive in Paris and Berlin during the inter-war years of the last century and examines the difficulty of holding on to one's identity in exile. As the waves of political and ideological turmoil impinge directly on the fate of the characters, we see some of them adapt and flourish despite the hostile enviro...

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Riley Davis loves everything about gymnastics—the chalk on her hands, the narrow beam beneath her feet, and the thrill of mastering a new skill. But on the morning of her first Level Seven competition of the year, excitement gives way to fear.When Amanda and Tyler stop by to wish her "bad luck," their hurtful words follow Riley all the way to the gym. Every event becomes more than a test of skill. Riley must manage her nerves, recover from mistakes, listen to the people who believe...

“The chief difficulty experienced in the compilation of these “ Memorials of Christie’s ” has been, not the lack of material, but the wealth of it. To compress into two volumes the essence of many thousands of catalogues has been a task of no little difficulty, and I do not pretend to claim that every “lot” of importance is to be found mentioned within these covers. To compile a complete record of the sales at Christie’s would require a lifetime of constant application, and a long series o...

By the time he was thirty, SYD KESSLER was a millionaire many times over, the epitome of the poor kid making good. But inside him, a hollowness was taking hold, and later, in middle age, he fell seriously ill. In the dark days of a long recovery, Kessler explored the Kabbalah and the discoveries of quantum physics, developing a system of moral principles from the truths of how the universe began and operates. His set of principles -- from Big Bang to Moral Cause and Effect...

Adapted from the groundbreaking bestseller Principles of Comparative Politics, Fourth Edition!Foundations of Comparative Politics, Second Edition presents a scientific approach to the rich world of comparative inquiry, research, and scholarship, providing a guide to cross-national comparison and why it matters. This condensed, more accessible format introduces students to the key questions in comparative politics, using brief insi...

Principles of Comparative Politics offers a view into the rich world of comparative inquiry, research, and scholarship. This groundbreaking text gives students meaningful insight into how cross-national comparison is actually conducted and why it matters. William R. Clark, Matt Golder, and Sona N. Golder walk us through the enduring questions that scholars grapple with, the issues about which consensus has started to emerge, and the tools comparativists use to ana...

A study of religion through the lens of Peter Shaffer's play Equus.In Unbridled, William Robert uses Equus, Peter Shaffer's enigmatic play about a boy passionately devoted to horses, to think differently about religion. For several years, Robert has used Equus to introduce students to the study of religion, provoking them to conceive of religion in unfamiliar, even uncomfortable ways. In Unbridled, he is inviting readers...