Daniel J Dyer

This engrossing history of an extraordinary company, Corning Incorporated, chronicles how one of the oldest business enterprises in the world maintained its place as a global leader in technology for over 150 years. In the nineteenth century, Corning developed colored signal lights for railroads. In...

Teachers have found The Call of the Wild--from the very earliest days of its publication in 1903--to be a novella rich in instructional possibilities in history, geography, and ethics as well as literature. In this resource book for teachers, Daniel Dyer provides an array of activities--traditional ...

"The Call of the Wild" was not only a book by Jack London. It may very well have been his own personal credo, as Daniel Dyer makes clear in this gripping biography of the famed author and adventurer.While researching Jack London, biographer Daniel Dryer uncovered an amazing truth - that London's rea...

A biography of Poe--aimed at YA readers--but also for general readers. Based on years of research and travel, the text follows the arc of Poe's life and career--but also challenges the conventional thinking that Poe was a hopeless drunk and drug addict. Certainly, he had substance abuse problems at ...

The Call of the Wild, by Jack London, is one of America’s best-known novels. Currently published in more than twenty separate editions in English alone, this novel about the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896 to 1899 has been continuously in print since it first appeared in 1903.Many editions of The Call of...