David Howard Bain A dramatic history of the construction of America's first transcontinental railroad chronicles three seminal decades in American history, describing the vast enterprise to build a railroad from...

Rachel Adler Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for 1998.How can women's full participation transform Jewish law, prayer, sexuality, and marriage? What does it mean to "engender" Jewish tradition?...

Julian Barnes Flamboyant tycoon Sir Jack Pitman has an idea. Since most tourists are too lazy and unlettered to travel from landmark to landmark, why not simplify things and shrink...

Alexander Kinglake I had come, as it were, to the end of this wheel-going Europe, and now my eyes would see the splendour and havoc of the East. April 1,...

Rabbi Yehuda Henkin In Equality Lost, Rabbi Yehuda Henkin teaches us how to extract the peshat in the Torah and demonstrates how to interpret Halacha in regard to women in...

Eric Carle From leaping, flying fish to dancing butterflies, and camels that "trollop along," Eric Carle 's brilliant and colorful collage designs bring to life animal poems from such diverse...

Anthony Burgess Hemingway's great achievement was to free the novel from all the languid decoration and cozy indirectness that was its early twentieth-century inheritance. His terse prose taught the writer...

Dan Lepard and Richard Whittington1999

Ruth Gruber With more than 100 photographs by the author "The ship looked like a matchbox that had been splintered by a nutcracker. In the torn, square hole, as big...

Ron Rosenbaum When Hitler's war ended in 1945, the war over Hitler--who he really was, what gave birth to his unique evil--had just begun. Hitler did not escape the bunker...

Dulwich Centre Publications January 1, 1999 by Dulwich Centre

Phil Roxbee Cox and Stephen Cartwright Created in consultation with a language expert, this book is part of an engaging phonics series, especially written to help your child learn to...