Book Description: With the passing of Edward Moore Kennedy on August 25, 2009, a climactic chapter in a thunderous American political saga came to an end, a chapter that featured the very greatest triumphs and the darkest tragedies. In this commemorative book, the Kennedys’ remarkable story is retold—the clan’s rise from the grinding poverty of America’s immigrant stock to the highest reaches of power and influence...read more

Product Description: An entertaining collection of facts, trivia and stories about Irish and Celtic culture. With offbeat stories taken from the Irish media, surprising modern facts, Ireland's most eccentric traditions, as well as stories on Celtic Knots, Strawboys and more...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: Our world is surprising, confounding, remarkable, unpredictable - and sometimes, pretty darn strange. The editors of LIFE explore the true stories behind history's most astonishing places, people, and events. Teen readers will be astounded by this colossal compendium of crazy coincidences, wild weather, peculiar people, and astounding animals...read more

Product Description: In Liberalism and Crime, Robert Sullivan offers an alternate way of looking at liberalism, using the usurpation of the welfare state in Britain by a free market-oriented economy as his crucible. Not content with the academic interpretation of liberalism as an offshoot of analytic philosophy, Sullivan has woven together a convincing demonstration that liberalism is born out of an alternative approach―one based in active thought and reasonable argument...read more

Product Description: “Joshua Lutz takes the New Topographics of Adams, Shore, and Sternfeld into its current era of urban sprawl.” —The New Yorker Just two miles west of Manhattan lies the Meadowlands, a 32-square-mile stretch of sweeping wilderness that evokes morbid fantasies of Mafia hits and buried remains...read more

A richly illustrated compendium documenting some of America's most famous and appalling crimes offers a visual look at each case, the perpetrators, and the justice system at work, in such cases as Leopold and Loeb, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Manson Family, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, and the Oklahoma City bombing, among others. 25,000 first printing.

Five miles west of New York City, the Meadowlands is a vilified and smelly tract of swampland. The author tramps through the muck on foot, and navigates the polluted rivers in a canoe, describing the industrial detritus, and observing the rich diversity of wildlife. This is an ode to an overlooked American borderland.

The author dispenses rat facts and rat stories, looking into the history of rats, and describes how, with the aid of a notebook and night-vision gear, he sat nightly in a garbage-filled alley getting to know the wild city rat.

Did you know that one pair of rats has the potential for 15,000 descendants in a year? That rats' teeth are harder than steel? Focusing on such questions, this book reveals the many ways rats' lives mirror those of humans. It is an account of a year spent in a garbage-strewn alley in lower Manhattan.