American Foreign Policy Since World War II, 18th Ed + Issues for Debate in American Foreign Policy

from Mercury57

This was my first experience of Zola and I was blown away by the force of his writing. Since I come from a coal mining family myself, I've always known about the hardship faced by people who earn their living underground. But the desperate poverty of the families in this novel was heart wrenching...

from CBJames

Adventure can rely on character. Robert Lewis Stevenson demonstrates this in his classic novel Treasure Island. There's plenty of adventure in Treasure Island: mysterious strangers arrive on stormy nights; innocent people survive savage attacks; abandoned ships drift out to sea; pirates climb the...

from thequestingvole

Treasure Island Treasure Island is a great book and like many great books, grew out of a small act. Stevenson's step-son was drawing one day and his step-father looking over his shoulder, saw that he was drawing a map. They spent the day naming the places and colouring it. And from the map came t...

from ncgraham

When I was a child I would often peruse a little pamphlet my parents owned. It was titled Hand that Rocks the Cradle and featured "a select list of books to read to children." Most of the commentary about the selections was straightforward and a little bit dull, but I've never forgotten what Mr. ...

from jnwelch

Germinal by Emile Zola takes place in a northern France mining village in the 1860s. It depicts in detail the strained circumstances of woefully underpaid miners that eventually will lead to a divisive strike against the well-heeled mine owners. "All the way from the silent village to the roaring...