A contemporary of Galileo and a forerunner of Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was a pioneering German scientist and a pivotal figure in the history ...

Little is known about the political views of non-dissident Chinese intellectuals. For this book, Émilie Frenkiel has been granted unprecedented ...

This tale of a bitter feud between cattle barons and the small outfits, recounts the closing off of Wyoming’s range with barbed-wire, imperiling ...

Globalisation and complex Europeanisation are two significant challenges currently influencing the restructure of the European nation-state, and redefining ...

This book challenges the common image of the European Commission as an insulated technocracy immune to political pressures. Based on an innovative combination ...

"We say that a man can be known by the company he keeps. So I say that a nation, a people, can be known and be judged by its heroes, by whom it honors ...

Jefferson Square was a multi-million dollar culture center…but there was nothing at all cultural about some of the things that happened there during ...

Fashion that was in vogue in the East was highly desirable to pioneers during the frontier period of the American West. It was also extraordinarily difficult ...

No crime is as horrific, as mesmerizingly perplexing, as a child's murder at the hands of a parent. In most cases, the perpetrator is the father. Veteran ...

The first title in Elizabeth Ogilvies' Lover's Trilogy, The Dawning of the Day follows widow Philippa Marshall as she makes a life for herself as a schoolteacher ...