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The WPA History of the Negro in Pittsburgh

|9780822961444|The monumental American Guide Series, published by the Federal Writers’ Project, provided work to thousands of unemployed writers, editors, and researchers in the midst of the Great Depression. Funded by…

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Kaleidoscope of Poland

…Polish history and culture. Featuring hundreds of entries and illustrations, it provides a handy reference at home, a perfect supplement to guide books when traveling, an aid to language study,…

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The Classification of Sex

…was studying gall wasp wings, writing biology textbooks, tracing patterns of evolution, or developing a universal theory of human sexuality. | Donna J. Drucker|| Science / General Science / History…

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The Battle For Homestead, 1880-1892

|9780822954668|Politics, Culture, and Steel|Named one of the fifty best books of 1992 by Publishers Weekly More than a century has passed since the infamous lockout at the Homestead Works of…

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Acting Inca

…case study of an “Inca play” created in the Aymara town of Caracollo, which proved highly popular and helped to unify the Aymara. As her study shows, the Amyara engaged…

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