Dispels the prejudices and misconceptions that surround the Mayan Calendar, 2012, and the existence of extraterrestrial life.

Spengler's work describes how we have entered into a centuries-long "world-historical" phase comparable to late antiquity, and his controversial ideas spark debate over the meaning of historiography.

This abridgement, while reducing the work to one-sixth of its original size, preserves its method, atmosphere, texture, and for the most part, the author's very words.

The doyen of Confucian studies in America here constructs a magisterial overview of 3,000 years of East Asian civilizations, principally in the form of dialogues among the major systems of thought that have dominated the Asian world's ...

This copiously illustrated volume is the first systematic general work to do justice to the fruits of recent scholarship in the history of natural history.

"Today, only twenty percent of Americans are wed by age twenty-nine, compared to nearly sixty percent in 1960.

One hundred and fourteen years later, this is the first appearance in English of Firmin's trailblazing work in Anthropology and Pan-Africanist thought.

Jeremy Mynott explores the similarities and surprising differences between ancient perceptions of the natural world and our own.

This book is the first to discuss, for an English-speaking audience, the ideas of the German-Jewish man of letters, thinker, and activist Günther Anders.

Zusammenfassung: This book examines for the first time how ancient Egypt is reflected in early modern Venetian sources.