The dramatic and varied experiences of young Jews who fled the Nazis. Publishers Weekly "For them it was a question of swimming or sinking. For some of this generation it can certainly be said that but for Hitler and the...

In the fifth Deaf Lives volume, Jacobs tells of searching in Australia and Europe for an identity that has yet to be invented, as being neither deaf nor hearing, but an in-between....

As if Henry James himself were guiding us, we visit old Calvinist New York in the mid-nineteenth century, and share the coming-of-age of a young man whose boldness of spirit and profound capacity for affection attract both men and women...

An extraordinary personal testament to the life and times of one of America s great naturalists and literary figures less a biography than an essay in defense of Thoreau by one of his closest friends. A moving, sensitive and charmingly...

2000 Bologna Ragazzi Non-Fiction for Young Adults AwardShortlisted, 2000 British Columbia Round Table Information Book Award1999 Teacher Liberian Magazine, Best of the Best issueShortlisted, 2001 Rocky Mountain AwardToo Young To Fight is a book of recollections from some of...

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This work explores and analyzes the help-seeking behaviors of young urban street males who engage in prostitution. Booknews Focuses on a single urban setting to investigate how young street males seek advice or material and emotional assistance from formal resources...

The prime object of (this book's) preparation has been to call attention to the great prevalence of sexual excesses of all kinds'...

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