Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for history, this "wonderful history of the golden age of the movie moguls" (Chicago Tribune ) is a provocative, original, and richly entertaining group biography of the Jewish immigrants who were the moving forc

For word lovers everywhere, a classic anthology of collective nouns--now vastly expanded and with a new introduction. Infectious in spirit, beautifully illustrated with over 250 witty engravings by Granville, Durer, and other artists, this work is a word

Here, Gould revels in life's complexity, attacking as he always has the bitter fruits of biological determinism and praising reason. In doing so, he awakens all of us to the pretty pebbles of evolutionary fact and thought. Illustrated.

This dramatic, definitive account of the most spectacular economic meltdown of modern times exposes the dangerous flaws of the global financial system In the 1990s, few countries were more lionized than Argentina for its efforts to join the club of wealth

Ando Sangrando is a study of Mexican American - police conflict and the 1970-71 East Los Angeles riots. At least thirty riots have occurred in Spanish-speaking communities throughout the Southwest since 1970, but "white America" and the media are by and l