Except Education describes what really happens inside of American public high schools.

A review from the PENN STATER, Sept./Oct. 1997: ". . .Braund's descriptions of his agricultural mission will interest some readers.

The secret Society for Emigrant Women runs an international rescue operation for runaway women.

Don't Try and Sell Me No Pink Flamingos: From the forward by George Garrett York Harbor.

Our meddling intellect misshapes the beauteous forms of things; we murder to dissect.

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) is one of the most famous and influential classical musicians of all time.

Ten Days that Shook the World is a first-hand account of Russia's October Revolution of 1917.

Nothing comes amiss in the great business of preparation, if it has been thoroughly well learned.

In this autobiography, also titled The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Mohandas K. Gandhi recounts his life from childhood up until 1921, noting that my life from this point onward has been so public.

The book called 'The Consolation of Philosophy' was throughout the Middle Ages, and down to the beginnings of the modern epoch in the sixteenth century, the scholar's familiar companion.

There are particular characteristics one can have, and particular things one can do, that will make failure in life certain.

There is in every human being a sense which is not generally recognized as such, although nearly every person has had more or less experience regarding its workings.

Chrétien de Troyes' Four Arthurian Romances continued and expanded on existing Arthurian legends, but began the Arthurian Romance genre, so popular in Medieval literature.

From the author: My aim, after summarizing the sociology of the Chinese as a prerequisite to the understanding of their ideas and sentiments, and dealing as fully as possible, consistently with limitations of space.

An artist describes finding natural beauty in the world around us.

Unstuck in time, the hero of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five.

The Sirens of Titan was perhaps the novel that began the Vonnegut phenomenon with readers.

Educational leaders are seeing with increasing clearness the necessity of teaching students.

Ragged Dick was contributed as a serial story to the pages of the Schoolmate.

The dictionaries define the word aura as: Any subtle, invisible emanation or exhalation.