Mark Seltzer thought he had enough aggravation studying for his Bar Mitzvah and losing his best friend. It's the last straw when his mother becomes the new manager of his Little League baseball team and drags his older brother, Spencer, along as the coach. No one knows what to expect with a mother for a manager, but soon Mark and the other players are surprised to see how much they're improvin…
An instant bestseller in both hardcover and paperback, Hope Edelman's Motherless Daughters explores the myriad ways that losing a mother can affect almost every aspect and passage of a woman's life. First published a decade ago, it is still the book that motherless daughters of all ages look to for understanding and comfort and that they press into each other's hands. Building on interviews wit…
One winter morning in 1848, Ellen Craft, a light-skinned young slave, disguised herself in men's clothing and walked into the train station at Macon, Georgia.
Providing abundance is humanity's grandest challenge--this is a book about how we rise to meet it. We will soon be able to meet and exceed the basic needs of every man, woman and child on the planet. Abundance for all is within our grasp. This bold, contrarian view, backed up by exhaustive research, introduces our near-term future, where exponentially growing technologies and three other powerf…
Rendra, penyair legendaris negeri ini, telah lama berpulang. Namun, dia tidak sepenuhnya pergi. Ditinggalkannya alunan kata yang indah dan bertenaga bagi kita. Rendra bukan hanya seorang penyaji estetika. Dia turut menghadirkan realita di dalamnya. Perhatikanlah betapa puisi-puisinya selalu bicara tentang peristiwa di sekeliling kita. Tentang mulut-mulut yang terbungkam. Tentang orang-orang yan…