Product Description: Presents an overview of Vietnam, including an introduction of the country, geography, culture, people, and daily life.

Product Description: English summary: The study of the philosophy of history is currently divided into two largely irreconcilable approaches. The methodological and scientific analysis of historical practice stands opposed to an approach based on the reflection on the historicity of human identity...read more

Product Description: Looks at the civil rights movement, its cultural effects on society, and its lasting impact on the United States.

Product Description: [Library Edition Audiobook CD in sturdy Vinyl case.] [Read by Max Winter] Swapping his native San Francisco for the City of Light, travel writer David Downie arrived in Paris in 1986 on a one-way ticket, his head full of romantic notions...read more

Product Description: Poetry. "Max Winter's poems are full of the permission of comedy and the precision of laughter. He is urbane, witty, and a New York poet, though that appellation doesn't capture his eccentric grace, or his way of slipping to the center of another world by anaphora...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Distinct, clear, and free of flourishes, Max Winter's debut collection of poems, THE PICTURES, examines war, boredom, death, love, decay, happiness, and worship through a series of moving and still images. In one poem, from a group of "moving" pictures, three soldiers bide their time in a barren landscape, awaiting destruction; in a "still" picture, a group of stonesinvite us to pay closer attention to them; in another still picture, a woman stands with her mouth open, fists clenched, words unimportant...read more