Outlaws, spies, and gangsters

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Rochelle G. Saidel

The collective story of a small band of individuals, motivated by moral outrage, who launched an on-going campaign against the presence of Nazi war criminals and collaborators in the United States.

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Spencer Johnson

A brief biography of the outstanding 18th-century printer, inventor, and statesman, emphasizing the value of saving in his life.

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Gabriel Ward Lasker

One of the founders of modern human biology and physical anthropology, Gabriel W. Lasker holds a well-established place in the history of science. In a classic article published in Science in 1969, Lasker advanced the idea of plasticity, the process of human adaptation to stressful environments by a series of modifications to the body during the course of physical growth and development. This concept was a factor that led the scientific community to give up its reliance on the notion of genetically fixed racial types. As he documents the rapidly changing field of anthropology and some of its leading figures, Lasker gives his readers a peek inside the lives of people who have defined what it means to be human - and one of those people is himself.

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Bobby Ellen Kimbel

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide career biographies of twenty-five American short story writers active in the years between 1910 and 1945; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography.