Engineering is where human knowledge meets real-world problems—and solves them. It's the source of some of our greatest inventions, from …
An award-winning science journalist details the quest to isolate and understand dark matter―and shows how that search has helped us …
Bart Ehrman, author of the highly popular Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code and Lost Christianities, here takes …
The Missionary’s Curse tells the story of a Chinese village that has been Catholic since the seventeenth century, drawing direct …
Israel Finkelstein is director of the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University.
A collection of key articles on Syro-Palestinian archaeology of the Bronze and Iron Ages compiled in honor of archaeologist Olga …
Is writing a world art history possible? Does the history of art as such even exist outside the Western tradition? …
The volume covers painting, mosaic, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, architecture and photography. Textiles, coins, pottery, enamels, gold and silver are also …
During the First World War the Australian Government established an official war art scheme, sending artists to the front lines …
In 1978, faced with the pressure to modernize and a declining budget, the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) reluctantly agreed …
This book is an account of a major historical event, in the world of medicine. As the son of one …
In the first complete history of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), Elizabeth Siegel Watkins illuminates the complex and changing relationship between …
Ingres Then, and Now is an innovative study of one of the best-known French artists of the nineteenth century, Jean …
For over two hundred years, individuals have protected and served their communities as lawmen. Today, people who help enforce the …
Born on a farm near Anahuac, Texas, in 1875 and possessed of only a fourth-grade education, Ross Sterling was one …
ANew York Timesbestselling author's compelling portrait of the universal human need for animal companions-from dogs and cats to horses, birds, …
