San Antonio College Library

Set in the 1920's this collection of poems--"322 microbiographies"--Provides a description of the spiritual and physical disintegration of a small American town as it is caught up in a clash of conflicting values.

Written clearly and passionately, employing both anecdotes and statistics, this comprehensive narrative traces the position of blacks in the American economy from the Civil War to the present. - From publisher description. Also includes sections on the legacy of slavery, northward migration, the brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, black workers during the depression and war.

"The last poems of a major American poet"--Jacket

A survey of American mausoleums of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with discussion of popular architectural features of the period, including Egyptian pyramids, Ionic columns, and Gothic towers.

"The editors assembled a group of contributors are experts in their particular fields, from management consulting to history to sociology, and worked with them to create a book that is fully integrated and cross referenced. An important new look at American history, A Nation Transformed by Information will interest anyone who wants to understand how the United States has stepped so confidently into the latest Information Age."--Jacket.

Alphabetical sections include individual listings for every important strip in the history of newspaper comics. A 64 page full-color section is devoted to the finest Sunday color comics, highlighting many rare pages from the earliest days of the medium.