In this addition to the Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers (AWMR) series, Michael Fontaine offers new and fresh translations of two key texts on coping with internal appetites and external pressure, with different perspectives. Learn More

Despite the flames of record-breaking temperatures licking at our feet, most people fail to fully grasp the gravity of environmental overheating. What acquired habits and conveniences allow us to turn a blind eye with an air of detachment? Using examples from the hottest places on earth, Heat, a History shows how scientific methods of accounting for heat and modern forms of acclimatization have desensitized us to climate change. Learn More

A sweeping history of the rise of personal choice in the modern world and how it became equated with freedom. Learn More

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Since the end of World War II, democracies typically fell apart by coup d'état or through force. Today, however, they are increasingly eroding at the hands of democratically elected incumbents, who seize control by slowly chipping away at democratic institutions. To better understand these developments, this book examines the role of personalist political parties, or parties that exist primarily to further their leader's career as opposed to promote a specific policy platform. Learn More

Enlightenment studies are currently in a state of flux, with unresolved arguments among its adherents about its dates, its locations, and the contents of the 'movement'. This book cuts the Gordian knot. Learn More

Child abuse casts a long shadow over the history of childhood. This book looks at what constituted cruelty towards children in the past and at the social responses towards it. Focusing primarily on England, it is a history of violence against children in their own homes, covering a large timeframe which extends from medieval times to the present. Learn More

An explosive work of investigative journalism revealing the travesty of justice that sent an innocent man to prison and let the real murderer of a teenage girl go free. Learn More

Murders committed to escape a marriage, or out of dire desperation, or from an insane separation from reality, these and other less comprehensible motivations fill the pages of Family, Friends and Neighbors. It's an unflinching look into humanity's dark side! Hear the stories, investigate the facts, and meet the vicious killers who murder the people who should have been nearest and dearest to them. Learn More

The powerful story of an activist movement that challenged the racial inequities of Israel. Learn More

Journey to the ancient past with cutting-edge science and new data to discover how horses forever altered the course of human history. Learn More

A deep dive into racial politics, Hollywood, and Black cultural struggles for liberation as reflected in the extraordinary life and times of Sammy Davis Jr. Learn More

Written by one of the world's leading dinosaur experts, Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior presents the latest findings on dinosaur behavior and explaining how researchers interpret the often minimal and even conflicting information available to them. Learn More

An engrossing new work of economic history, Small, Medium, Large will make scholars, students, and general audiences alike think differently about the history of mass production and consumption. Learn More

An insider's account of the NASA mission that changed our understanding of planets, planetary systems, and the stars they orbit. Learn More

The first-ever biography of America's greatest crime reporter. Learn More

From an esteemed scholar, a richly textured, authoritative history of sex and sexuality in America—the first major account in three decades. Learn More

A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has reshaped the planet, and the planet has shaped human history, over the last 500 years. Learn More