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The first edition of Tally's Corner, a sociological classic selling more than one million copies, was the first compelling response to the culture of poverty thesis--that the poor are different and, according to conservatives, morally inferior--and alternative explanations that many African Americans are caught in a tangle of pathology owing to the absence of black men in families. The debate has raged up to the present day. Yet Liebow's shadow theory of values--especially the values of poor, urban, black men--remains the single most parsimonious account of the reasons why the behavior of the...

"One of the very best things ever written about homeless people in the nation."--Jonathan Kozol.

A distinguished physician and professor of medicine at Edinburgh University, and a forensic expert for the British Crown, Joseph Bell was well known for his powers of observation and deduction. This biography of Bell is intended for those interested in Victorian medicine, in the history of detective fiction, and in Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson.

This vivid and magical tour of the bohemian art world of Paris of 1900 to 1930--where the birth of modern art took place--is an epic account of life and loves among artists and writers from belle poque to world slump.--William Feaver, The Spectator (London). Illustrations.