New Releases by Kevin Baker

A literary tour de force, a magnificent chronicle of a remarkable era and a place of dreams In a stunning work of imagination and memory, author Kevin Baker brings to mesmerizing life a vibrant, colorful, thrilling, and dangerous New York City in the earliest years of the twentieth century. A novel breathtaking in its scope and ambition, it is the epic saga of newcomers drawn to the promise of America-gangsters and laborers, hucksters and politicians, radicals, reformers, murderers, and sideshow oddities-whose stories of love, revenge, and tragedy interweave and shine in the artificial electric dazzle of a wondrous place called Dreamland.

Photographs, illustrations and text recount the history and people of the United States during the twentieth century.

This account of the 1947 New Zealand naval mutiny provides information about other mutinies that have occurred worldwide since 1944, as well as describing the lead up to the New Zealand naval mutiny and its aftermath. Includes bibliography.

The collection is comprised of news clippings, discussion papers, papers relating to Harvey Volke, speech by Elliott Johnston on Rule of Law, speeches on Red belt days and Frank Hardy by Hal Alexander, The neglected works of Oscar Zeet / Hal Alexander, 1998 and a video cassette titled Hal turns 80, 2004.

A guide that complements Lars Svensson''s Identification Guide to European Passerines. It covers 119 species, with descriptions of ageing and sexing methods, moult, biometrics and racial differences. It is suitable for ringers, museum workers, and keen birders.

A reference to warblers in Europe, Asia and North Africa, illustrated in colour, perched and in flight with distribution maps, geographical variations of subspecies and detailed main text for identification.

A collection of poems by the well-known folk songwriter, whose work includes TWoman on the Land'', TDeath of a Lark'' and TSnowy River Men''. His belief that art should be accessible and free to express human experiences is evident in this collection.