Product Description: From revered, established writers as well as exciting new voices, the poems in Puna Wai Korero offer a broad picture of Maori poetry in English. The voices are many and diverse: confident, angry, traditional, respectful, experimental, despairing, and full of hope, expressing a range of poetic techniques and the full scope of what it is to be Maori...read more

Product Description: From a quarantine hospital to a juvenile drug treatment center to an uninhabited island of ruins--this magnificent photographic survey that brings North Brother Island to life.Few people today have ever heard of North Brother Island, though a hundred years ago it was place known to--and often feared by--nearly everyone in New York City...read more

Product Description: Author Robert Sullivan has spent years collecting the offbeat, unique and unusual quotations that express the spirit of Ireland. You'll find many quips and comments here not found on typical websites and printed editions. An informative and amusing compendium of Irish viewpoints on art, music, politics, history, love, drinking, golf, the movies, religion and everything in between...read more

Product Description: Named a Best Book of the Year by The Wall Street Journal Americans tend to think of the Revolution as a Massachusetts-based event orchestrated by Virginians, but in fact the war took place mostly in the Middle Colonies―in New York and New Jersey and parts of Pennsylvania...read more

Product Description: When LIFE's editors looked back on our long history of picture puzzle (LIFE invented the craze a few years ago - and other publishers followed), we realized it's "absolute madness" that we're on our 16th book in the series. And so we thought - what better title for our newest puzzle book? As always, LIFE's editors choose the most colorful and lively pictures and this time - with a title like Madness - readers will be sure to see the craziest, most vivid photos we've ever selected...read more

Product Description: Picture Puzzle books have become a bona fide phenomenon in the game-book field, and the frenzy was launched by LIFE. LIFE Books ignited the Picture Puzzle craze with it first New York Times bestseller several years ago (replacing Suduko at Number One), and the franchise is still going strong...read more

Product Description: Bobby Zimmerman pilgrimaged to New York City's Greenwich Village just over a half century ago, seeking to visit his muse Woody Guthrie in the hospital and to launch a music career. He did both, and his first, eponymous album was released precisely 50 years ago...read more

Product Description: From the editors who have previously brought forth bestselling illustrated biographies on the Beatles as a group and John Lennon in particular, now comes Remembering George Harrison: 10 Years Later.He was the quiet Beatle only in that he was standing alongside two louder-than-life characters and in front of a guy playing drums...read more

Product Description: In this expanded tenth-anniversary edition of the No. 1 New York Times bestselling book, LIFE returns to the story that it chronicled with such immediacy following the devastating, heartbreaking, and inspiring events in New York, Washington, D...read more

Product Description: @font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }@font-face { font-family: "HelveticaNeue-Thin"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } When Pope John Paul II died in 2005 some four million pilgrims made their way to Rome to celebrate his extraordinary life...read more

Product Description: LIFE has covered all of the lavish royal weddings since even before Queen Elizabeth II wed in 1953, and of course the magazine documented in splendid, intimate detail the "wedding of the century," that of Prince Charles and Lady Diana, years later...read more

Product Description: Robert Sullivan, the New York Times bestselling author of Rats and Cross Country, delivers a revolutionary reconsideration of Henry David Thoreau for modern readers of the seminal transcendentalist. Dispelling common notions of Thoreau as a lonely eccentric cloistered at Walden Pond, Sullivan (whom the New York Times Book Review calls “an urban Thoreau”) paints a dynamic picture of Thoreau as the naturalist who founded our American ideal of “the Great Outdoors;” the rugged individual who honed friendships with Ralph Waldo Emerson and other writers; and the political activist who inspired Martin Luther King, Jr...read more

Product Description: Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English, edited by Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri, and Robert Sullivan, is a follow-up volume to the highly acclaimed Whetu Moana, the first anthropology of Polynesian poems in English edited by Polynesians...read more

Product Description: Includes official portraits by LIFE photographers as well as candid photos taken at the marriage of Prince Charles and Lady Diana, in a book that includes not just British royals like Queen Elizabeth II, Prince William and Prince Harry, but also Queen Noor of Jordan, the late Princess Grace of Monaco, the last queen of Hawaii and more...read more

Product Description: Did the Russian Grand Duchess Anastasia survive the slaughter of her family, and did Amelia Earhart perhaps survive her famous flight across the Pacific? Where did the evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson go when she vanished in May of 1926, and where did the mystery writer Agatha Christie disappear to later that same year? Was Napoleon in fact murdered, and might the same fate have befallen Dag Hammarskjold? Where's all the loot from the Great Train Robbery, not to mention all the spoils that were stashed away by the notorious gangster Dutch Schultz? Did two other mountain climbers reach the summit of Mount Everest before Sir Edmund Hillary, and did a French airplane cross the Atlantic just before Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St...read more