Regilla was married at age 15 to wealthy Greek Herodes. Twenty years later, eight months pregnant with her sixth child, she…

As Englund charts Napoleon's dramatic rise and fall-from his Corsican boyhood, French education, astonishing military…

On Zion's Mount shows how, paradoxically, the Mormons created their homeland at the expense of the local Indians-and how…

Often considered a lost decade, a pause between the liberal Sixties and Reagan's Eighties, the 1970s were indeed a watershed…

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Today, many believe the Civil War was fought over slavery. This view satisfies our contemporary sense of justice, but as…

The Cultural Matrix seeks to unravel an American paradox: the socioeconomic crisis and social isolation of disadvantaged…

Despite the settlers' dependence on the Algonquians and strained relations with London backers, they forged a colony that…

Rice was a major plantation crop during the first 300 years of settlement in the Americas. It accompanied slaves across the…

\nWhen a young woman killed herself in the office she shared with her employer in 1920s Shanghai, the city reeled in shock.…

\nBiotechnologist Leroy Hood and longevity researcher Nathan Price journey to the future of health. Medicine today is a…

\nJoseph LeDoux argues that ideas like the self are increasingly barriers to discovery and understanding. He offers a new…

\nBefore the Communists came to power, China lay broken. Today it is a global force, but its leaders are haunted by the…

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\nEugene McCarraher challenges the conventional view of capitalism as a force for disenchantment. From Puritan and…

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\nIn Lesia Ukrainka’s rendering, Cassandra’s prophecies are uttered in highly poetic language and are not believed for that…

\nSolutions to workplace burnout often involve victim-blaming: Stressed? Try therapy-or a new job. But burnout is a sign of…

The Scandal of Empire reveals that the conquests and exploitations of the East India Company were critical to England's…

In the first half of the 20th century, the U.S. moved to the center of global cultural production. How did African American,…

Bowler doesn't minimize the hostility of many of the faithful toward evolution, but he reveals the less well-known existence…

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This book is the first full-length account of the evolution of China's Red Guard Movement in Beijing from its beginnings in…

When Jefferson Davis became president of the Confederacy, his wife Varina reluctantly became the First Lady. Pro-slavery but…

The Marine Corps has always considered itself a breed apart. Since 1775 America's smallest armed service has been suspicious…

As the twentieth century ended, computers, the Internet, and nanotechnology were central to modern American life. Yet the…

In February 1941, Henry Luce announced the arrival of "The American Century." But that century-extending from World War II…

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The people of Smolensk survived both of the twentieth century’s most brutal dictatorships. Michael David-Fox probes their…

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This, the most interesting and helpful edition of Charles Darwin's major work, is now available in an inexpensive paperback…

\nThe Russia-China border is a study in contrasts, with booming cities on the Chinese side and sleepy villages on the…

\nDuring Guatemala’s decades-long civil war, tens of thousands of children, many of them Indigenous Maya, were coerced or…

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Perhaps nothing has ever been so frightening to people of faith as the modern. Pluralistic and rationalizing, modernity…

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg sees much of the world from the window of his study overlooking Lake Austin.…

Neely considers the war's destructiveness in a comparative context, revealing the sense of limit that guided the conduct of…

Prohibition was aggressively promoted-and spectacularly unsuccessful-in New York City. In the first major work on the…

During World War II, Japan was vilified by America as our hated enemy. As the Cold War heated up, however, the U.S.…

Schwartz presents the history of genetics through the eyes of a dozen or so central players, beginning with Charles Darwin…

Johnson begins with the most elementary thing we know: deconstruction calls attention to gaps and reveals that their claims…

Jim Crow has long represented America's imperfect union. This edition of the earliest Jim Crow plays and songs presents…

Americans today "know" that a majority of the population supports the death penalty and that half of all marriages end in…

This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its…

Eugene Fishel asks whether, how, and under what circumstances the United States has considered Ukraine’s sovereignty in…

\nUnder Seleucid rule, time no longer restarted with each new monarch. Instead, progressively numbered years, identical to…

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\nIn 1739 Bordeaux\'s Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest seeking answers to a pressing question: What was the…

\nMoses Chao argues that activity in the peripheral nervous system predicts the onset of neurological and psychiatric…

\nStanley Cavell was one of the most distinguished and wide-ranging philosophers of his time. This posthumous volume…

Sports concussions make headlines, but you don\'t have to be an NFL star to suffer traumatic brain injury. In Shaken Brain,…