The first volume in a series of short fiction collections featuring outstanding contemporary stories set against the backdrop of the American West captures the rich diversity of culture and lifestyle in the region in twenty works by Sherman Alexie, Melanie Thon, Luis Alberto Urrea, Elmore Leonard, Max Evans, John Sayles, and other acclaimed authors. 10,000 first printing.

A retrospective of recent American history from the host of PBS television's The Open Mind features stimulating conversational interviews with Martin Luther King, Jr., Tom Brokaw, Gloria Steinem, Oliver Stone, Jonas Salk, Malcolm X, Eleanor Roosevelt, and many others, encompassing issues in such fields as politics, media, law, and women's rights. Reprint.

A retrospective of recent American history features stimulating conversational interviews with Martin Luther King, Jr., Tom Brokaw, Gloria Steinem, Oliver Stone, Jonas Salk, Malcolm X, Eleanor Roosevelt, and many others, encompassing issues in such fields as politics, media, law, and women's rights.

Product Description: What do you get when a Seinfeld writer marries an OB/GYN? A doctor with a funny delivery. Actually, lots of funny deliveries. Marc Jaffe's job was coming up with hysterical stories for Seinfeld, but nothing was funnier than the stories his gynecologist wife would tell...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A moving collection of novels that explore the powers, passions, and politics of the war between the North and South includes Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara, Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, and Andersonville.

Brings together, from the pages of 'Esquire,' writings by fifty distinquished American writers on fifty Americans who have had extraordinary impact in the fields of the arts, business, communications, medicine, politics, religion, science, and sports