Product Description: New York’s Lower East Side was said to be the most densely populated square mile on earth in the 1890s. Health inspectors called the neighborhood “the suicide ward.” Diarrhea epidemics raged each summer, killing thousands of children...read more

Born to survivors of Auschwitz and Terezin, the author recounts her private quest to come to terms with her parents' past, a quest which took her to Israel and into the homes of other children of concentration-camp survivors

A provocative analysis of the AIDS epidemic in Africa looks at the social, economic, and political factors that have caused and exacerbated the situation; its impact on gender relations and the spread of HIV; the devastating effects of the disease on entire countries; and possible solutions to the crisis. 30,000 first printing.

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A journalist searches for her mother's historical roots after her death--from the nineteenth century, to the holocaust, and beyond

Product Description: Self-made impresario, controversial producer, contentious champion of human rights and the First Amendment, founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival, and unquestionably the most dynamic force in American theater in the last quarter century, Joseph Papp (1921–1991) changed forever America's cultural landscape...read more

Gathers interviews with Horowitz, James Galway, Yo-Yo Ma, and Leonard Bernstein, and discusses a top violin teacher, a piano competition, and the role of the conductor

Product Description: Anyone interested in theater should read this small, engaging biography about a woman who founded a regional theater. Tina Packer began as a young actress from Nottingham, England who emigrated to the United States in the early 1970s and, with Kristin Linklater and Dennis Krausnick, developed her own company in Edith Wharton’s abandoned mansion in Massachusetts...read more

Born to survivors of Auschwitz and Terezin, the author recounts her private quest to come to terms with her parents' past, a quest which took her to Israel and into the homes of other children of concentration-camp survivors