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Collecting some 30 of the most evocative English-language poems on the experience of spring, this volume features works by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Henry Reed, Marie Ponsot, and others. 15 line drawings.

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The story of one of the Boston area s most famous attractions, the Mount Auburn Cemetery, and how its founders and residents have influenced American culture When the Mount Auburn Cemetery was founded, in 1831, it revolutionized the way Americans mourned the dead by offering a peaceful space for contemplation. This cemetery, located not far from Ha

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The author of the classic "Thousand Pieces of Gold" returns with an uplifting novel of the real heroines of China's Pearl River Delta--young girls who, in the 19th century, fought and won a battle for economic and personal independence that changed the future for thousands of others.

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Originally published in hardcover in 2014 by Da Capo Lifelong.

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Harvard economist Richard B. Freeman contends that economic and social inequality has become more brutal and pervasive in the last twenty years, and that it is time to stop analysing causes and consequences and to concentrate on doing something about it.

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Through the stories of nearly thirty long-term single women, sociologist Trimberger shows the six keys to creating a fulfilling single life. The reader is brought into these womens lives through engaging stories and personal accounts. Trimbergers writing, while sociologically-based, is very accessibly written, with no jargon.

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Publicly greeted as the definitive answer to recent attacks on the university, Lawrence W. Levine's book is a brilliantly argued positive vision of American education and culture.

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All children begin life as passionate, curious learners. But in school, too many become alienated from the joy of learning. Filled with stories and specific ideas, The Passionate Learner is a handbook for cultivating kids' passionate engagement with learning at all ages.

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Using the occasion of her eightieth-birthday party to reflect on the past, Doris Grumbach delivers an enchanting memoir of the writers, friends, and loves who have accompanied her in mind and body through an extraordinary life of letters.

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Sarracino and Scott argue that we no longer have to purchase pornography to get porn because we increasingly live porn in our daily lives. Resolutely pro-sex, they contend that, to make the most of our hard-won sexual freedom, we must thoughtfully-and honestly-evaluate what is both liberating and damaging about porn.

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This is the compelling story of two men and the year they spent together. More than a book about friendship, it's a primer on the importance of living a life connected to the wild.

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"An unflinching look at the challenges and misunderstandings mixed-race people face in family spaces and intimate relationships across their varying cultural backgrounds"--

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"An unflinching look at the challenges and misunderstandings mixed-race people face in family spaces and intimate relationships across their varying cultural backgrounds"--

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"In these essays and poems, Hogan depicts her own intense relationships with animals as an example to the rest of us"--

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2014 NAACP Image Award Winner: Outstanding Literary Work Biography/Autobiography 2013 Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians Presenting a powerful corrective to the popular iconography of Rosa Parks as the quiet seamstress who with a single act birthed the modern civil rights movement, scholar Jeanne Theoharis exc