Shares expert guidelines on how to read and appreciate Herman Melville's classic work, offering insight into its history, characters, and themes while explaining its literary relevance in the modern world.

"The New York Times bestselling author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu sets out to uncover the truth behind the legendary lost city of Atlantis. A few years ago, Mark Adams made a strange discovery: Everything we know about the lost city of Atlantis comes from the work of one man, the Greek philosopher Plato. Then he made a second, stranger discovery: Amateur explorers are still actively searching for this sunken city all around the world, based entirely...

A comprehensive handbook featuring color illustrations and photographs plus exclusive new material, character profiles, genealogical charts, maps, extensive cross-references, and much more.

Interviews, commentaries, and excerpts from Amy Tan's first novel, The Joy Luck Club. Accompanying teacher's guide includes ten lesson plans, each with focus topic, discussion activities, writing exercises, and homework assignments Also includes caps

Explores such art topics as style, composition, color, and subject matter as they relate to twelve works by Van Gogh.

Kenyon College professor Timothy B. Shutt delivers a course that looks at the life of C. S. Lewis and examines the influences that would help to shape Lewis both as a man and as a writer. We will take a look at Lewis' science fiction trilogy, his Chr