This narrative history surveying one thousand years of Jewish life integrates the Jewish experience into the context of the overall culture and society of medieval Europe. It presents a new picture of
A guide to the recognition and description of sedimentary rocks in the field. It aims to help the geologist know what to observe and record and how best to interpret this data and is of value to stude
Long, long ago, when the earth was new, the great river goddess Yemoya sent her daughter Aje to marry a handsome earth chief in the Land of Shining Day. At first Aje was happy, but soon she started to
Patrol Officer Alistair Cawdor's suicide triggers a colonial inquest in New Guinea. Five testifying witnesses reveal disturbing stories. First published in 1979,Visitants was informed by the author's
Laid low by a tropical disease, Crispin Clare returns home to East Anglia. Local folklore seeps into his fever dreams and his writing, and the lines between reality and myth blur. Stow's tale of illne
"Intense and extraordinary."SpectatorThe once prosperous outback town of Tourmaline is dying, gripped by drought. The remaining townspeople have little to do but drink. When a mysterious wat
In the tradition of Waiter Rant, a saucy look at life behind the beverage cartEver since Coffee, Tea or Me? was first published in the swinging sixties, the reading public has been enamored with stewa
Though he was a recipient of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature, American novelist John Steinbeck (1902--1968) has frequently been censored. Even in the twenty-first century, n
