Product Description: Seamlessly combining spiritual writing, reportage, travel narrative, humor, and recent history, bestselling author James Martin recalls his time as a young Jesuit working with the refugees in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. Drawing on his previous experience in the business world, he imagined that he had much to teach the refugees...read more

In an incisive study of moral leadership and its implications, the best-selling author of The Moral Life of Children profiles individuals who have had a profound influence on contemporary American life and examines those qualities that allow people to become moral leaders in their homes, communities, and nation. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. For months, six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the first African American girl to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. For months, six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the first African American girl to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.

Product Description: Lives We Carry with Us gathers together for the first time a diverse cross section of Coles’s profiles, originally published in our premier magazines over the span of five decades but never before collected in book form. Depicting the famous, the lesser known, and the unknown, the profiles here include portraits of James Agee, Dorothy Day, Erik Erikson, Dorothea Lange, Walker Percy, Bruce Springsteen, Simone Weil, and William Carlos Williams among others...read more

Argues that micro-managing activities and experiences impedes the happiness and healthy development of today's children, and offers solutions for nurturing what really matters.

Entertaining and illuminating literary selections that explore the ethical quandaries of the workplace, collected by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Moral Lives of Children."They don't know me anymore."—Willy Loman, in Death of a SalesmanIn a course he taught at Harvard Business School and elsewhere for many years, esteemed psychiatrist Robert Coles asked future money market managers and risk arbitrageurs to pause for a semester and reflect on the ethical dimensions of their chosen profession.Now, for corporate professionals, armchair entrepreneurs, and other students of commerce, Coles has gathered a generous and stimulating collection of classic literary reflections on the ethical and spiritual predicaments of the business world.From John Cheever's descriptions of a businessman who endures a moral crisis after stealing a neighbor's wallet and Gwendolyn Parker's "Uppity Buppie," in which an African American woman ascends to the upper ranks of corporate America, to Death of a Salesman and Tolstoy's "Master and Man," Minding the Store offers a richly human vision of the business world. With selections by, among others, John Updike, Flannery O'Connor, William Carlos Williams, Edith Wharton, and Vladimir Nabokov, Coles gives us the essential literary gems that illuminate the human predicaments of commerce and the moral quandaries of the marketplace.

Product Description: An illustrated collection of spooky stories, poems, and riddles including a humorous array of ghosts, monsters, ghouls, and witches.

Product Description: Through intimate letters, interviews, and stories, this narrative reveals the impact that a life-changing retreat had on a group of inmates at the highest level maximum-security state prison in Alabama. The 38 participants in the first-ever intensive, silent 10-day program inside the walls of a corrections facility—many serving life sentences without parole—detail the range of their experiences, the depth of their understanding of the Buddha’s teachings gained by direct experience, and their setbacks and successes...read more

Product Description: “When they ask me, as of late they frequently do, how I have for so many years continued an equal interest in medicine and the poem, I reply that they amount for me to nearly the same thing.” —William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams made his mark on the world as a legendary modernist poet, but he filled an equally significant role on a local level in his native New Jersey—as a doctor...read more

Product Description: Robin Bowman’s five-year journey into the heart of teenage America created a series of 414 “collaborative portraits,” wherein she shares her discoveries of a generation now coming of age. In searing and intimate photographs, presented alongside the young people’s voices of passion, pride, embarrassment, lust, pain, bewilderment, anxiety, joy, uncertainty, and rage, the book charts the coming of age of the largest generation in America—77 million strong—in every region of the country and every socioeconomic group: from a Texas debutante to teenage gang members in New York City, from a drag queen in Georgia to a coal miner in West Virginia...read more

The lives and work of Mexican migrant workers in their northeastern Ohio home are captured in colorful photographs and stories that convey their great pride in work and family, as well as their struggles and their joys. Simultaneous.

A lyrical guide draws on Buddhist principles to counsel readers on how to identify the important things in life, presenting sample discussions between a psychotherapist and a patient to demonstrate how readers can create states of inquiry, place themselves into hypothetical situations, and act positively on inner thoughts. Original.

Product Description: There would be many more human sacrifices—of that Char was sure. It never occurs to him that he or Quel might become one of those victims who meet their fate at the hands of the cruel warrior-priests! The Maya youth spots something unusual in the Sacred Well of Sacrifice and must satisfy his curiosity...read more

Spanning more than two thousand years, an illuminating anthology of outstanding political writings ranges from the great writers of the past to modern-day theorists, with contributions by Sophocles, Tolstoy, George Orwell, Nadine Gordimer, Robert Kennedy, Anna Freud, Carl Sandburg, and many others. Original. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: Paperback. 215 pages. Lots of black and white pictures.

Product Description: All children have an innate moral curiosity that can grow into a solid moral intelligence with deliberate cultivation by parents and role models. This premise guides the research and argument of this groundbreaking and insightful look into children's moral development; it is both a useful how-to guide for parents and a thorough study of juvenile psychology...read more

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Children of Crisis offers a unique vision of musical legend Bruce Springsteen and the influence of his music on both the lives of ordinary Americans and on the American literary tradition, examining the meaning of Springsteen's lyrics and profiling 'The Boss' as a poet within a larger social, cultural, and philosophical context. Reprint. 26,000 first printing.

A collection of short fiction, compiled by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Children of Crisis, explores the world of education, teaching, and learning in works by Julia Alvarez, Raymond Carver, John Cheever, Anton Chekhov, Thomas Hardy, Toni Morrison, Flannery O'Connor, Tobias Wolff, and other distinguished writers. Original.

Selections from the author's Pulizer Prize-winning five-volume Children of Crisis series combine in a single, abridged volume, featuring a new introduction by the author, that explores the effects of poverty, wealth, ethnic background, and turmoil on the nation's young people.

Product Description: In his brief but distinguished life, Anton Chekhov was a doctor, a documentary essayist, an admired dramatist, and a humanitarian. He remains a nineteenth-century Russian literary giant whose prose continues to offer moral insight and to resonate with readers across the world...read more

A Teach for America volunteer recounts his own tenuous education as well as his tenure in the rural Mississippi Delta, one of the poorest districts in the country, during which he encountered fierce racial divisions, drug problems, and gang violence. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Short fiction, poetry, and essays by such notable authors as Raymond Carver, Anton Chekhov, Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Wendell Berry, Robert Coles, Audre Lorde, Lewis Thomas, and Albert Schweitzer explore diverse facets of the medical profession, covering such topics as the nature of compassion, medical ethics, patient advocacy, and life and death. Reprint.