Product Description: Starting from the primal meaning of the word "savage" as denoting "from the trees", this book offers a synoptic account of human development, from isolated hunters to the beginnings of community, or "civilization". From the beginning, a necessary opposition emerged between the savage and the civilized, between those who lived in the forest and those who collected in groups to protect themselves from, and to dominate, their environment...read more

Describes how World War II and its aftermath affected literature and the arts in Britain

Product Description: Vagrant deckhand, socialist, gold-digger and alcoholic, Jack London died, burntout, at the age of forty. "The Sea-Wolf" is based on his own brutal experiences on a sea-hunting voyage in a world where 'might is right and weakness is wrong.' (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Explains why four Cambridge graduates became Russian spies, and describes how Cambridge laboratories provided Russia with useful equipment and information for building an atomic bomb

Traces the life and accomplishments of the sixteenth-century British explorer, examines his relationship with Queen Elizabeth I, and attempts to portray his complex personality

Product Description: Jack: An Autobiography of Jack London

Product Description: The changing role and status of women in America from colonial times to the present, and the American woman's unrelenting struggle for complete equality with men are the major themes of this work. The works of leading feminists, suffragists, abolitionists, unionists, and temperance workers are explored...read more

An ex-concentration camp victim who lives in Manhattan believes he is the reincarnation of Edgar Allan Poe and through this delusion a portrait of Poe emerges