Intertwined Lives
Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle
Written by Lois W. Banner

Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: December 7, 2004
Price: $16.95

A uniquely revealing biography of two eminent twentieth-century American women. Close friends for much of their lives, Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead met at Barnard College in 1922, when Mead was a student, Benedict a teacher. They became sexual partners (though both married), and pioneered in the then male-dominated discipline of... Read more >

From Slavery to Freedom
A History of African Americans (Eighth Edition)
Written by John Hope Franklin and Alfred A. Moss, Jr.

Format: Hardcover, 768 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2000
Price: $75.00

This is the dramatic, exciting, authoritative story of the experiences of African Americans from the time they left Africa to their continued struggle for equality at the end of the twentieth century.

Since its original publication in 1947, From Slavery to Freedom has stood as the definitive history of African Americans. Coauthors... Read more >