Syracuse University Press
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Get Off Your Knees: A Story of Faith, Courage, and Determination
$19.95 Add to cartGrowing up, John Robinson never considered himself an inspiration to others. He was born a congenital amputee and stands three foot eight as an adult. Although he has no extension of his arms or legs,
- Series: New York State
- Author: Robinson, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: May 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0815609612
- Language: English
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A Naturalist’s Guide to Wetland Plants: An Ecology for Eastern North America
$19.95 Add to cartHere is a comprehensive, significant study of wetlands flora, which encompasses all members of the plant and fungi kingdoms. These include poisonous, hallucinogenic, medicinal, and edible plant life a
- Author: Cox, Donald D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0815607407
- Language: English
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Dorothea Lange: A Photographer’s Life
$24.95 Add to cartDorothea Lange’s depression-era photographs became mythic symbols in their time and are exhibited worldwide as standards of classic photography. In this first biography of Lange, Milton Meltzer docume… [more below]
- Author: Meltzer, Milton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: February 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0815606222
- Language: English
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Songs from Bialik: Selected Poems of Hayim Nahman Bialik
$19.95 Add to cartHayim Nahman Bialik (1873-1934) is considered Israel’s national poet and one of the greatest Hebrew poets of all time. Several of his poems, particularly his immensely popular children’s verse, were s
- Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
- Author: Hadari, Atar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: June 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0815606052
- Language: English
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Does the Land Remember Me?: A Memoir of Palestine
$17.95 Add to cartSummoned by his dying mother, Palestinian-born Aziz Shihab returns to the homeland he and his family fled as refugees decades earlier: to a Palestine reclaimed by Israelis and to a country no longer t… [more below]
- Series: Arab American Writing
- Author: Shihab, Aziz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 30 2011
- ISBN10: 081560968X
- Language: English
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Psychiatry: The Science of Lies
$14.95 Add to cartFor more than half a century, Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to a radical critique of psychiatry. His latest work, Psychiatry: The Science of Lies, is a culmination of his life’s work: t
- Author: Szasz, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 28 2019
- ISBN10: 081560792X
- Language: English
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Ideology and Insanity: Essays on the Psychiatric Dehumanization of Man
$19.95 Add to cartThis book is a collection of the earliest essays of Thomas Szasz, in which he staked out his position on “the nature, scope, methods, and values of psychiatry.” On each of these issues, he opposed the
- Author: Szasz, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: April 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0815602561
- Language: English
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The Heart of Lebanon
$44.95 Add to cartWhen celebrated mahjar writer Ameen Rihani returned to his native Lebanon from his long stay in New York, he set out on nine journeys through the Lebanese countryside, from the rising mountains to the
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Allen, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0815611293
- Language: English
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The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project: An Oral History of the Greatest Construction Show on Earth
$24.95 Add to cartIn this book, Claire Puccia Parham reveals the human side of the project in the words of its engineers, laborers, and carpenters. Drawing on firsthand accounts, she provides a vivid portrait of the li… [more below]
- Author: Parham, Claire Puccia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: January 28 2016
- ISBN10: 0815610734
- Language: English
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Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks: The Story of the Lake, the Land, and the People
$24.95 Add to cartBig Moose Lake in the Adirondacks is the lively and well documented story of the growth of the lake side community made famous by the incident that inspired Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy. The
- Author: Barlow, Jane A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: June 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0815607741
- Language: English
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Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano
$14.95 Add to cartAlan Scott Haft provides the first-hand testimony of his father, Harry Haft, a holocaust victim with a singular story of endurance, desperation, and unrequited love. Harry Haft was a sixteen-year-old
- Series: Religion, Theology and the Holocaust
- Author: Haft, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0815611196
- Language: English
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Who Are These People Anyway?
$19.95 Add to cartIn the rich tradition of oral storytelling, Chief Irving Powless Jr. of the Beaver Clan of the Onondaga Nation reminds us of an ancient treaty. It promises that the Haudenosaunee people and non-Indige
- Series: Iroquois and Their Neighbors
- Author: Powless, Irving
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 08 2016
- ISBN10: 081561070X
- Language: English
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Lebanon / Liban: Poems of Love and War / Poèmes d’Amour Et de Guerre
$9.95 Add to cartThis bilingual anthology, edited by Christophe Ippolito, contains Samuel Hazo’s complete translation of Lebanon: Twenty Poems for One Love and Paul B. Kelley’s selections from the never-before-transla
- Series: Modern Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Tuéni, Nadia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0815608160
- Language: English
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Winslow Homer in the Adirondacks
$14.95 Add to cartIn this title, David Tatham demonstrates that Winslow Homer’s ‘Adirondack oils and watercolours constitute a highly original examination of the human race’s relationship to the natural world at a time… [more below]
- Series: New York State
- Author: Tatham, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: April 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0815607733
- Language: English
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Albert Schweitzer: A Biography, Second Edition
$24.95 Add to cartThe second edition of this biography of humanitarian Albert Schweitzer has been updated to include documents discovered since the work was originally written, including the letters between Schweitzer … [more below]
- Series: Albert Schweitzer Library
- Author: Brabazon, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0815606753
- Language: English
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All Faces But Mine: The Poetry of Samih Al-Qasim
$24.95 Add to cartAll Faces but Mine gathers selected poems from the acclaimed Palestinian poet Samih Al-Qasim (1934-2014). A contemporary of Mahmoud Darwish, Al-Qasim was a celebrated resistance poet whose passionate … [more below]
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Al-Qasim, Samih
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 21 2015
- ISBN10: 0815610521
- Language: English
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Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island
$19.95 Add to cartHere is one of the classics of modern Gaelic literature–the autobiography of Peig Sayers, a remarkable woman who lived forty years at the edge of survival on barren Great Blasket Island, and who came
- Series: Irish Studies
- Author: Sayers, Peig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 01 1974
- ISBN10: 0815602588
- Language: English
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Ecstatic Confessions: The Heart of Mysticism
$19.95 Add to cartBeginning with Buber’s seminal essay on mysticism, this book offers texts down the centuries from oriental, pagan, Gnostic, Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, Jewish and Muslim sources. It aims to convey som
- Series: Martin Buber Library
- Author: Buber, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: November 01 1996
- ISBN10: 081560422X
- Language: English
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Only Land I Know: A History of the Lumbee Indians
$19.95 Add to cartThis is the standard history of the Lumbee Indian people of southwestern North Carolina, the largest Indian community in population east of the Mississippi. Dial and Eliades trace the history of this … [more below]
- Series: Iroquois and Their Neighbors
- Author: Dial, Adolph L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0815603606
- Language: English
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Glenn Curtiss: Pioneer of Flight
$19.95 Add to cartGlenn Curtiss (1878-1930) was a self-taught aeronautical engineer, a self–made industrialist, and one of the first airplane pilots, the model for “Tom Swift.” C. R. Roseberry’s biography begins with
- Author: Roseberry, C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 524
- Publish Date: September 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0815602642
- Language: English
