Charles J Shields

Presents the geography, history, economy, cities and communities, and people and culture of Belize. Includes recipes, related projects, and a calendar of festivals.

Discusses the land, the history, the economy, the people, and the festivals of Brazil.

Discusses the land, the history, the economy, the people, and the festivals of Chile.

Presents the geography, history, economy, cities and communities, and people and culture of Honduras. Includes recipes, related projects, and a calendar of festivals.

Presents the geography, history, economy, cities and communities, and people and culture of Panama. Includes recipes, related projects, and a chronology.

Presents the geography, history, economy, cities and communities, and people and culture of Costa Rica. Includes recipes, related projects, and a calendar of festivals.

Presents information on the geography, history, economy, and people of Central America. Includes a chronology, recipes, project ideas, and more.

Presents the geography, history, economy, cities and communities, and people and culture of Nicaragua. Includes recipes, related projects, and a chronology.

A biography of a brilliant novelist underappreciated in his own time who became a twenty-first-century bestseller, from the New York Times—bestselling author. When Stoner was published in 1965, the novel sold only a couple of thousand copies before disappearing with hardly a trace. Yet the quietly powerful tale of Midwestern college professor William Stoner, whose life becomes a parable of solitude and anguish, eventually found an admiring audience...

A biography of the third president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, a relative unknown hand-picked by Boris Yeltsin to succeed him.