In The Truth Will Set You Free Miller once again implores us to open our eyes to childhood pain, offering compelling new evidence of the perils of emotional blindness. Referring to the Bible's forbid
Home to the notorious "Blue Book," which indexed the names and addresses of every prostitute living in the city, New Orleans' infamous red light district gained a reputation as one of the most raucou
Between 1994 and 2000, Omar Nasiri worked as a secret agent for Europe’s top foreign intelligence services-including France’s DGSE (Direction Générale de la Sécurité E
Acclaimed historian, Philipp Blom, retraces the fortunes and characters of the men, that from the 1750s to the 1770s in the Paris salon of Baron Paul Thirty Holback had debated with intellectual darin
Pius the Twelfth has long been vilified as ?Hitler’s Pope,” but a key part of the story has remained untold. Pope Pius ran the world’s largest church and oldest spy service. Under his leadership the V
In essays covering everything from art and common sense to charisma and constructions of the self, the eminent cultural anthropologist and author of The Interpretation of Cultures deepens our understa
In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This g
A reprint of the very popular Basic Books original of 1977, with a substantial new afterword by Weinberg: "Cosmology Since 1977." Cited in BCL3 . Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
"Stokely Carmichael, the charismatic and controversial black activist, stepped onto the pages of history when he called for "Black Power" during a speech one humid Mississippi night in 1966. Carmichae
In the first essay, Patterson analyzes the very latest survey data to delineate the different attitudes, behaviors, and circumstances of Afro-American men and women, dissecting both the external and
In the eighteenth century, a small group of black men met the challenge of the Enlightenment by mastering the arts and sciences and writing themselves into history. The battle lines were clear?literac
