Discusses opposing viewpoints in the ongoing debate over placing limits on television and radio broadcasts, news reporting, school curricula, and public speaking

Product Description: Ealing was once known as the 'Queen of the Suburbs', though this phrase is more commonly used now by estate agents. Ealing Through Time enables the reader to judge for themselves whether the viewpoints of Ealing justify the title in question, both in the past and in contemporary times...read more

Explores the arguments over whether or not immigrants to the United States and Canada should be encouraged to learn English without focusing on their native language

Product Description: Ferdinan Hodler, a Swiss painter who lived from 1853 to 1919, is one of the most important of the country's artists. His work, situated between Realism and Symbolism, was widely shown all over Europe, prefiguring Art Nouveau and Modernist abstraction...read more

The head of the Bach Archive in Leipzig combines a biographical study of the great eighteenth-century composer with a comprehensive analysis of his work

Tells the story of ballerina Maria Tallchief, focusing on her Native American background and her rise to fame with the New York City Ballet

Product Description: In 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic, turning him and his plane--the Spirit of St. Louis--into instant international celebrities and launching the aviation industry. That same year the manufacturer J...read more

Discusses issues related to teenage fatherhood, including costs to children and society, strategies for coping, acknowledging paternity, and minority fathers (view table of contents)