Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon--the towering novel of the twentieth century's most dramatic geopolitical event. Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies--the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power. Here is the tale that swept the world with its fury: the story of an American nurse, an Israeli freedom fighter caught up in a glorious, heartbreaking, triumphant era. Here is Exodus --one...

Presents the history of the United States from the point of view of those who were exploited in the name of American progress.

In this comprehensive and global volume hundreds of entries define and cover every aspect of photography. The newest inventions, the ingenious past, the ever-changing technical and aesthetic developments, and the personal stories and styles of photographers worldwide. Timelines summarize and sidebars elaborate on major milestones and tell the human stories behind them. Beautiful photographs on every subject from around the globe are meant to both...

The first book to use the mass of materials made available since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, A History of Twentieth-Century Russia is an extraordinarily lucid, masterful account of the most complex and turbulent period in Russia's long history. 7 illustrations. 5 maps. Includes bibliographical references and index. Russia has had an extraordinary history in the twentieth century. As the first Communist society, the USSR was both an admired...

A poor but proud Irish tenant farmer accompanies the spoiled and headstrong daughter of a wealthy landlord to America in a quest for land.

A translator who lives a peripatetic life retells the story of his family, from the time of his great-grandfather to the Gulf War, and in the process paints a portrait of more than a century of history and social change in Spain. "Un traductor simultáneo que viaja de ciudad en ciudad le cuenta su vida a una mujer, evocando en su relato las voces de los habitantes de Mágina, su pueblo natal. Así sabremos de su bisabuelo Pedro, que era expósito...