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The definitive history of the Vikings -- from arts and culture to politics and cosmology -- by a distinguished archaeologist with decades of expertiseThe Viking Age -- from 750 to 1050 -- saw an unpre

A groundbreaking new history of the United States, showing how Christian faith and the pursuit of petroleum fueled America's rise to global power and shaped today's political clashesAnointed with Oil

The epic story of how humans evolved from intimate chimp communities into a world-dominating speciesIf a chimpanzee ventures into the territory of a different group, it will almost certainly be killed

A revealing portrait of the end of Franklin Roosevelt's life and presidency, shedding new light on how he made his momentous final policy decisionsThe first hundred days of FDR's presidency are justly

In his most powerful and important book, renowned psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton presents a brilliant analysis of the crucial role that German doctors played in the Nazi genocide. Now updated with a n

Hailed as the most important method to emerge in psychotherapy in decades, EMDR has successfully treated psychological problems and illnesses in more than one million sufferers worldwide, with a rapid

A global history of the 1850s, the turbulent decade that marked the peak of the Victorian era, the birth of modernity, and the beginning of the first global age

Mary Pipher's groundbreaking investigation of America's "girl-poisoning culture,"Reviving Ophelia, has sold nearly two million copies and established its author as one of the nation'

Oh, the humanity!” Radio reporter Herbert Morrison’s words on witnessing the destruction of theHindenburg are etched in our collective memory. Yet, while the Hindenburglike theTitanicis a symbol of th

From the Athenian attack on Melos to the My Lai Massacre, from the wars in the Balkans through the first war in Iraq, Michael Walzer examines the moral issues surrounding military theory, war crimes,

A renowned constitutional scholar explores the little-understood relationship between the written Constitution and the many external factors that shape our interpretations of this foundational documen

Discusses America's political stance during the holocausts of the past fifty years, presenting moral arguments for why the United States should change its non-engagement policies to become involved in

More people write for the Associated Press than for any newspaper in the world, and writers--nearly 2 million of them--have bought more copies of The Associated Press Stylebook than any other journal

Scientists have long theorized that abstract, symbolic thinking evolved to help humans negotiate such classically male activities as hunting, tool making, and warfare, and eventually developed into s

Examines how George Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush performed as history's first successive global leaders following the United States' victory over the Cold War, and how that performance was i

During the Revolutionary Period, and in the early days of the Union, Virginia was the nation’s most promising state. It produced a galaxy of America’s most important founders and statesmen: Washington

In Washington’s God Michael Novak-one of America’s leading neoconservative pundits-and his daughter, Jana, uncover George Washington’s religious life. Finally the record is set stra

Expanding on the author's year-long study of the shrimp and salmon aquaculture industries as an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow, the book lays out the rationale behind aquaculture development: inc

Between the years of 1447 (Nicholas V) and 1572 (Pius V), the Vatican became the official home of the Church, and a succession of Renaissance Popes — who were statesmen, warriors, and patrons of the arts as well as churchmen — turned Rome into an unparalleled center for culture, and turned the Church into the world’s largest bureaucracy.These mercurial popes, such as Alexander VI, the infamous Borgia patriarch, and Julius 'Il Terrible' II, contributed to cultural achievements — the Basilica of St. Peters and Michaelangelo's Sistine Chapel — through the sale of indulgences, and targeted heretics with Inquisitions and witchhunts.In the midst of this explosion of great culture and violent debasement, Alexander VI, father of the ruthless Cesare and jezebel Lucrezia, came to be seen as the embodiment of this iniquity. But Gerard Noel shows that Alexander's legacy was tainted by false confessions and historical myth. In fact, Alexander created the blueprint for reform — the first of its kind

Around midnight shortly after claiming victory in the California presidential primary on June 5, 1968, Senator Robert Kennedy walked into a deadly spray of gunfire. Immediately the Los Angeles Police

The author of The Science of Everyday Life probes some of the mysteries of everyday life, including mosquitoes, baby-holding, skipping stones, Marvel comics, and "six degrees of separation," among oth

Imagine: four men and four women lock themselves into a three-acre greenhouse in the Arizona desert where they live for two years, completely cut off from the outside world. Nothing in or out - no fo

From the Athenian attack on Melos to the My Lai Massacre, from the wars in the Balkans through the first war in Iraq, Michael Walzer examines the moral issues surrounding military theory, war crimes,

A study of women who harm themselves through self-mutilation, eating disorders, and other forms of chronic injury introduces a three-stage therapeutic program designed to help women free themselves fr

A critical analysis of the Bush administration's foreign policy notes America's abandonment of multiple international treaties and agreements in the months prior to the September 11 attacks, stating h

The question of whose interests the media protects - and how - has achieved holy-grail-like significance. Is media bias keeping us from getting the whole story? If so, who is at fault? Is it the libe

The question of the responsibility inherent in the unrivaled might of the U.S. military is one that continues to take up headlines across the globe. This award-winning group of reporters and scholars,

A scientific and legal exploration into animal rights today considers the cognitive abilities of animals along the evolutionary spectrum, identifies where the line for rights is currently drawn and wh

Each generation of therapists can boast of only a few writers like Deborah Luepnitz, whose sympathy and wit shine through a fine, luminous prose. In Schopenhauer's Porcupines she recounts five true s

Examines four key dimensions of globalism including its role in the war on terrorism, its impact on domestic U.S. policy, its influence on the shaping of national security, and its own future, in a co

Stolorow (psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine) Donna Orange and George E. Atwood (psychology, Rutgers U.; all three are part of the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity founded by St

A new interpretive biography of the life and work of Jane Addams explores the intellectual movements that influenced her career, her creation of Hull House as a cultural and intellectual center, and h

An inside study of the MP3 musical revolution explores the battle among record labels, musicians, Internet entrepreneurs, and fans over control of the future of music, assessing the impact of digital

Documents the Supreme Court's handling of cases related to equal protection and how it applies to gay citizens, from the 1958 victory of a tiny homosexual magazine to the 2000 defeat of a gay Eagle Sc