Nuanced and complex, "Twilight of the Godlings" is Francis Young’s history of pagan deities and supernatural creatures in Britain, where ancient British, ancient Roman, and... Read More

In his excellent and informative book Five Times Faster, Simon Sharpe proposes solutions to climate change challenges on three fronts: science, economics, and policy. Sharpe... Read More

Philip C. Almond’s fascinating and comprehensive cultural study of Mary Magdalene reviews hundreds of interpretations of the revered saint and explores the creative tension... Read More

Jen Manion’s "Female Husbands" explores the history of gender-nonconforming people who dared to be themselves. Female husbands first entered popular consciousness in... Read More

In 2020, the Nineteenth Amendment turns 100, and Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder’s "A Century of Votes for Women" examines its history and effects in direct,... Read More

Steve Stewart-Williams, associate professor of psychology at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, wants to help readers get an outside perspective on humanity to... Read More

As many as 90 percent of us will experience at least one serious traumatic event during our lives, report Stephen Southwick and Dennis Charney in Resilience: The Science of... Read More

The contemporary revitalization of shamanism as well as the incorporation of shamanic elements into many New Age movements makes it high time for a new comprehensive assessment... Read More

“Images of badly abused slave children in Ivory Coast harvesting the cocoa beans that will be processed into the chocolates consumed by obese children in Los Angeles” will... Read More

“The worst mistake we ever made was getting rid of Diem,” lamented President Lyndon Johnson in 1965, a year and a half after the South Vietnamese President was murdered in a... Read More

The Emancipation Proclamation did not free a single slave. Actually, freedom was a result of the Union victory and of the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, a piece of... Read More

What do groceries have to do with the success of Merrill Lynch, the world’s largest brokerage and investment firm? As an expert on the historical development of American... Read More