"Hysterically funny, beautifully written. . . . Warming and endearing, brilliant."-Anne Tyler, New Republic
After four years of college in New England, Louise Brown is back in New Orleans, steepe...
When junior managers are assigned to more experienced senior managers for the purposes of learning and development, many organizations report such favorable results as reduced turnover, increased o...
A series of studies on a wide variety of themes ranging from a consideration of God's theocracy to the evasive modes post-exilic Jews used in referring to God. Includes a study of Jewish eschatolog...
We assume men grow up. But do they? Dr. Jim Wilder contends that many men never fully mature because they fail to negotiate the passage from boyhood to manhood. An almost equally tragic trend occur...
In this analysis of the post-Civil War southern economy, the author examines why the region failed to progress economically for so long. He explains that the South continued to be a low-wage reg...
One of America's earliest books.
One of the most important early Pilgrim tracts to come from America, this book helped persuade others to come join those who already came to Plymouth.
This is the standard history of the Lumbee Indian people of southwestern North Carolina, the largest Indian community in population east of the Mississippi. Dial and Eliades trace the history of...
This translation of a major work in Mexican anthropology argues that Mesoamerican civilization is an ongoing and undeniable force in contemporary Mexican life.
For Guillermo Bonfil Batall...