Product Description: The New York Times praised Communist Party reporter John L. Spivak's shocking 1932 novel Georgia Nigger as having "the weight and authority of a sociological investigation." This Southern Classics edition makes Spivak's narrative available to modern readers, augmented with a new introduction by David A...read more

Product Description: Raised on a colonial New Hampshire farm by their secretive father, teen-age twins John and Sarah, especially Sarah, wonder about what their mother was like. A botched kidnapping and a desperate maritime chase down the Atlantic seaboard brutally brings that wonder to reality...read more

Product Description: These rich sermons are rooted in congregational life and steeped in Christian doctrine and the celebrations of the church year. A Kingdom We Can Taste reflects one preacher's effort at leading a congregation through the seasons of Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, and Easter...read more

A fascinating collection of narratives from escaped North Carolina slaves offers readers a window into these personal accounts of life in bondage that inflamed Northern sentiments against slavery, including the work of Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane, and Reverend Thomas H. Jones, among others. Reprint.

A fascinating collection of narratives from escaped North Carolina slaves offers readers a window into these personal accounts of life in bondage that inflamed Northern sentiments against slavery, including the work of Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane, and Reverend Thomas H. Jones, among others.

Product Description: The continuing professional development (CPD) of physicians, formerly called continuing medical education, greatly expands what physicians can do with the help of educational experts to provide optimal patient care. The Continuing Professional Development of Physicians: From Research to Practice takes the concept of CPD, which has been adopted by the American Medical Association, and turns it from theory into practice as an agent for positive physician performance change...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)