David Lewis

Acclaimed by leading historians and critics when it appeared shortly after the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., this foundational biography wends through the corridors in which King held court, posing the right questions and providing a keen measure of the man whose career and mission enthrall scholars and general readers to this day. Updated with a new preface and more than a dozen photographs of King and his contemporaries, this edition presents...

Have you ever wondered why buzz beats hype, why cheap is chic, or why new consumers loathe doing the shopping? New consumers are revolutionizing the world of business, our culture norms, and our social expectations. No longer confined by gender, age, ethnicity, or income, new consumers are breaking down barriers, shattering stereotypes, and redefining the marketplace and the very meaning of consumerism. From traditional to online retailing, from tracking...

The author presents a biography of civil rights movement leader W.E.B. Du Bois, concentrating on the early and middle years of his long and intense career.

In this panoramic history of Islamic culture in early Europe, a Pulitzer Prize winning historian re-examines what we thought we knew. Lewis reveals how cosmopolitan, Muslim al-Andalus flourished--a beacon of cooperation and tolerance between Islam, Judaism, and Christianity--while proto-Europe made virtues out of hereditary aristocracy, religious intolerance, perpetual war, and slavery.--From publisher description.

"Stephen Whittaker has his whole life planned, but when he loses his true love--Alice--a gradual undetected spiral begins. When everything starts unraveling who will Stephen turn to?"--Provided by publisher.

Volume VI of the new edition of The Cambridge Ancient History begins with Sparta attempting to consolidate its leadership of mainland Greece and ends with the death of Alexander the Great after he had conquered the Persian Empire and marched far into India. It is correspondingly wide-ranging in its treatment of the politics and economy, not only of old Greece, but of the Near East and the western Mediterranean. The century also saw the continued development...