Overwhelmed by issues at home and pressured to be what he doesn’t want to be, Sam Walker longs to be a character in one of his books. After he falls asleep that night, he finds himself in another world—one of beauty unlike anything he has ever seen and adventures he couldn’t begin to imagine....

The Renaissance was in many ways the beginning of modern and self-conscious authorship, a time when individual genius was celebrated and an author\'s name could become a book trade commodity. Why, then, did anonymous authorship flourish during the Renaissance rather than disappear? In addressing this puzzle, Marcy L....

During the seventeenth century, the Netherlands--a small country with just two million inhabitants and virtually no natural resources--enjoyed a \"Golden Age\" of economic success, world power, and tremendous artistic output....

Book DescriptionOne of the few women doctors of her time, Doris North writes stories of her fascinating patients. Her experiences with some of them extended over the entire 45 years she practiced family medicine. Her husband, Victor North, who attendedmedical school with her, figures prominently in her memoirs....