Partridge provides a wide-open view into the work and life of one of the most influential and complicated persons from the world's musical heritage.
The author reflects on the childhood dream that led him, as an adult, to take a break from Princeton and travel to China's famed Shaolin Temple to study martial arts for two years.
This work looks at photography as it evolved from daguerreotypes in the 1800's to the respected art form that it is today.
In three interwoven biographies, Weller chronicles the life and times of three tradition-breaking women singer-songwriters who came of age in the late 1960s.
With a proven track record of more than thirty years in publication, this top-selling career guide has been updated and revised to help first-time job seekers discover and get the right work for them.
Keen introduces LGBT youth to their legal rights and provides examples of young people empowered to stand up for themselves.
The shocking cruelty of legal animal abuse is exposed through the story of Baby, a poodle who lost a leg after years of mistreatment at a puppy mill.
Hungry Planet is a photo-chronicle of families around the world, the food they eat, and how uncontrollable forces like poverty, conflict and globalization affect our most elemental human need — food.
Seventeen-year-old Peter Houghton wakes up one day, loads his backpack with four guns, walks into the school cafeteria, and kills nine students and one teacher in the span of nineteen minutes. Why?
Prospective college students can rely upon Pope's indispensable guide to 41 colleges where education rivals that of the Ivy League universities in producing outstanding graduates.