Books published by Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S.

This unorthodox but delightful anthology of 42 essays focuses on the masters of world literature.

Based on interviews with forty American and Filipino survivors who-battling hunger, dysentery, malaria, and rapidly encroaching Japanes-were the untested but brilliant defenders of General MacArthur and Wainwright's tiny island fortress.

As musically creative as his performances are destructive, the Who's main man gets the full biographical treatment from his childhood to his current role as a rock sage.

Desperados is the first full history to describe the development of ountry rock, the genre that spawned the world's bestselling record, The Eagles Greatest Hits (which has surpassed Michael Jackson's Thriller .

Based on oral testimony from field soldiers, both new recruits and veterans, The GI's War puts the reader on the frontlines and captures in unsparing detail the confusion, monotony, terror and glory of going to war.

Mark Twain's hilarity and irreverence shine through in this impeccably chosen collection.

Based on extensive interviews, Oscar Peterson is a well-informed and provocative exploration of Peterson's music.

Story of a remarkable life and the history of a movement.

This unsurpassed work illuminates the unpopular, blunder-filled War of 1812.

36 stories by one of the world's masters of literature, Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

Available in one volume, these two works represent both a triumph over personal adversity and an unsparing saga of religious imperialism.

This biography provides a redemptive view of the bloody career of Roman general and consul Lucius Cornelius Sulla, a fearless commander and ruthless politician wholly devoid of inhibitions, and the direct forerunner of Julius Caesar, who based his own grab for power on Sulla's methods.

This is the remarkable story of German and European Jehovah's Witnesses persecuted by the Nazis, who could have avoided persecution by simply renouncing their faith yet who refused in the majority of cases, instead continuing in their worship and criticism of Hitler's regime.

Sampling works by the creator of Holmes and Watson, this collection features Doyle's detective stories, horror tales, journalism, historical stories, and the complete text of his science-fiction novel The Poison Belt.

This definitive volume celebrates the harmonica's illustrious history, focusing on every musical genre that has felt the harp's impact.

Jose is not sure what to expect when his grandmother from Mexico moves in...except that he will certainly have to change his ways. What he discovers is that he doesn't mind one bit. Abuelita is full of surprises! She is full of life!

Chosen by Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano as a gift to every first grader in the state, this story describes the beauty of the Sonoran Desert and a family whose lives are intertwined with the environment and the home they make from adobe.

Campaign consultant Potholm explores the U. S. A.'s democratic process, explaining how the election of 2000 revealed the system's strengths, why low voter turn-out is not exactly a bad thing, and why politics should be entertaining.

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This collection covers a range of topics in 20th century cinema, from the Auteur Theory to the commercial cinema from Orson Welles to Kenneth Anger.

Willie Nelson is more than just a singer whose albums have captured the imagination of America for more than thirty years.

In Sideshow, journalist Shawcross presents the first full-scale investigation of the secret and illegal war the United States fought with Cambodia from 1969 to 1973, paving the way for the Khmer Rouge massacres of the mid-70s.

In fascinating, star-studded anecdotes, original Monkee Micky Dolenz takes readers from his starring role at age 12 as TV's "Circus Boy," to the open casting call that brought the Monkees together, through the creative conflicts that finally drove them apart. Along the way you'll find hilarious anecdotes about his adventures as a Monkee-the girls, the parties, the celebrities-as well as the harder-edged realities of a life lived in front of a camera.

Hannibal forged a career of daring exploits and stunning victories that came perilously close to annihilating Rome.

Danish poet and novelist Hans Christian Andersen is best known for the dozens of fairy tales he wrote.

These extraordinary memoirs-written by German Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel in the six weeks before he was hanged in Nuremberg for war crimes-offers readers an unparalleled, insider's view of the Wehrmacht, Hitler, and the events that made WWII the most devastating conflict of modern times.