Cook, allegedly the first man to reach the North Pole, recounts his adventures at the top of the world, his meetings with eskimos and his hunting of musk ...

The definitive guide to the places and people that built the area between San Francisco and San Jose, California, evoking a sense of the Hollywood-like ...

An examination of philosophical themes in science fiction, with seventeen stories, by Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Robert Heinlein, Jorge Luis Borges ...

Here, in this engrossing and often hilarious book, Stephen Birmingham explores how the Irish elite emerged in America—frequently in less than a ...

No Planning Required! Rediscover the simple pleasures of a day trip with Day Trips from Seattle. Packed with full trip-planning information for hundreds ...

Traditional forms of top-down government are being challenged by the growing complexity and fragmentation of social and political life and the need to ...

How do France and Germany compare in the world of participatory political communities? This volume sets out an impressive historical, theoretical and institutional ...

Examines the notorious Nazi's life.

The behind-the-scenes story of one of professional basketball's most respected and beloved teams.

It's easier to imagine ghosts haunting gloomy, medieval castles in Europe of brooding mansions in New England than bright, cheerful homes across the Sunshine ...