The Art of Robert Frost
Library Journal Kendall (English, Univ. of Exeter; Sylvia Plath) traces the development of core themes throughout the work of Robert Frost. The selection of poems addressed is based on "quality and variety" and covers the range of Frost's career, but the majority were written between 1890 and 1920. Each of the included poems is followed […]
The Virgin Warrior
Library Journal The virtues of this biography are many: the sources are allowed to speak for themselves, Taylor's prose is succinct and engaging, she respects her subject, and her account deflates the myriad myths that have grown up around the short, eventful life of the Maid of Orleans (1412?31). Joan emerges as a forceful, self-directed […]
The Engineering Drawings of Benjamin Henry Latrobe
Tamoxifen and Breast Cancer
Taliban : Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism In Central Asia
The Shaker Experience In America: a History of the United Society of Believers
The Occupation of Iraq : Winning the War, Losing the Peace
Publisher Weekly Review: Allawi, until recently a senior minister in the Iraqi government, provides an insider's account of the nascent Iraqi government following the American invasion. His scholarly yet immensely readable exposition of Iraqi society and politics will likely become the standard reference on post-9/11 Iraq. It convincingly blasts the Coalition Provisional Authority for failing […]