Overview :Provence, 1970 is about a singular historic moment. In the winter of that year, more or less coincidentally, the iconic culinary figures Jam... Read More
Overview :Ever since American soldiers returned home after World War II with a passion for p t and escargots instead of pork and beans, our preferenc... Read More
Overview :A detailed first-hand account-and critical analysis-of the impact of the first contingent of American Peace Corps volunteers to live and wor... Read More
Overview :"Ebenezer Erskine and his son-in-law, James Fisher, were partners in producing what was at first spoken of as The Synod's Catechism, but cam... Read More
Overview :First published in 1954, A History of Birds by James Fisher is a pioneering exploration of ornithology, tracing the evolution of bird studie... Read More
Overview :Catholicism has grown from a suppressed and persecuted outsiders' religion in the American colonies to become the nation's single largest de... Read More
Overview :This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This w... Read More
Overview :Site of the world's busiest and most lucrative harbor throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the Port of New York was also the ... Read More
Overview :Jim Fisher is a first year teacher who quickly learns that his job is more than simply educating his students. He has to battle indolence in... Read More
Overview :Eric Hoffer's classic "The True Believer" (1951) anticipated the "terrible 60s" where misfits and fanatics sought escape from personal frust... Read More
Overview :The fifty-year period from 1880 to 1929 is the richest era for theater in American history, certainly in the great number of plays produced ... Read More
Overview :Koch and Fisher have updated and expanded the latter's highly respected 1984 book, Power of the Presidency. In Presidential Leadership, the ... Read More