With a determined plan to reunite his mother and father, the 10-year-old boy named Wataru knowingly enters a fantasy realm inhabited by a goddess who has the power to change destiny. With the help of the Lizard Boy, the Cat Girl, and the Fire-breathing Dragon, Wataru faces a ser…
"Russia, 1917 - inspired by revolutionary ideas, artists and enthusiasts developed innumerable musical inventions, instruments and ideas often long ahead of their time - a culture that was to be cut off in its prime as it collided with the totalitarian state of the 1930s. Andrey…
Twenty-four adult children of key figures in the civil rights movement--including the sons and daughters of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, George Wallace, and others--are profiled in this book of essays that reveal the individual lives of the families behind the public face…
Profiles twenty-three children of the Civil Rights movement's leading figures including the daughter of former Alabama Governor George Wallace, the son of Martin Luther King, and Penny Liuzzo Herrington, daughter of Viola Liuzzo, who was killed during the Selma campaign.
Profiles twenty-three children of the Civil Rights movement's leading figures including the daughter of former Alabama Governor George Wallace, the son of Martin Luther King, and Penny Liuzzo Herrington, daughter of Viola Liuzzo, who was killed during the Selma campaign.
Profiling 24 of the adult children of the most recognisable figures in the civil rights movement, this title collects the intimate, moving stories of families who were pulled apart by the horrors of the struggle or brought together by their efforts to change America.
The Romans have long since departed and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But, at least, the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased. Axl and Beatrice, a couple of elderly Britons, decide that now is the time, finally, for them to set off across this troubled land …
Mervyn Peake's most famous work, The Titus Books (also called The Gormenghast Series), has traditionally been read as a coming-of-age gothic fantasy story, laden with excentricities for decoration's sake alone. This thesis aims to argue that the author's refusal to "explain" his…