" Here at last is the text that many college teachers of Chinese, Asian, and world history have been waiting for : an accessible collection of prim...

The story of Mattie Blaylock, Wyatt Earp's darkest secret, the truth about their relationship, and the famous lawman's lawless behavior. More than ...

Exiles, lost souls, remnants of a dying race ... The fate of the First Nations peoples of Van Diemen's Land is one of the most infamous chapters in...

This is the Medea we have been waiting for. It offers clarity without banality, eloquence without pretension, meter without doggerel, accuracy with...

This reprint (with updated 'Suggestions for Further Reading') of the Houghton Mifflin edition makes David Bevington's classic anthology of medieval...

Popular in its day both as a sourcebook for writers and orators and as a guidebook for living a moral life, this remarkably rich document serves as...

On Language, Memory, and Illness. As Tony Gorry recalls scenes from his earliest childhood and adolescence, he weaves his present reality with thes...

Jersey-born William Mesny ran off to sea as a boy and jumped ship at Shanghai in 1860 when he was just 18. Amid the chaos of foreign intrigue and c...

Ovid's Metamorphoses gains its ideal twenty-first-century herald in Stanley Lombardo's bracing translation of a wellspring of Western art and liter...

This rich and lively anthology offers a broad selection of Middle English poetry from about 1200 to 1500 C.E., including more than 150 secular and ...

This rich and lively anthology offers a broad selection of Middle English poetry from about 1200 to 1500 C.E., including more than 150 secular and ...

The 1848 discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in northern California set off a mining explosion that greatly hastened the development of the American...

"The Money Power" contains two classic books on geopolitics, "Pawns in the Game" and "Empire of the City", which present the thesis that the wars a...

This volume contains the plenary papers and a selection of shortpapers from the Seventh Annual RefoRC conference, which was held 10–12 May 2017 in ...

First published by Reed in 1999, with an introduction by Michael King, The Musket Wars established Ron Crosby’s reputation as a daring, original ch...

This book explores the pivotal place of the fiery serpent-eye goddess, Hathor-Sekmet, in the mysteries of Osiris, the Egyptian god of the dead. Wea...

Michael R Zimmerman, MD, Ph.D. is an anthropologist and retired pathologist. He obtained his medical degree and training in pathology from New York...

Like the constellations in the sky, words such as "aphrodisiac", "hubris", "museum", "galaxy" and "mentor" each contain within them a story, if on...

This book presents ten narrative texts written in the demotic script and preserved in papyri from the Tebtunis temple library (1st / 2nd century AD...

"With this timely book in Hackett Publishing's Passages series, Michael Bryant presents a wide-ranging survey of the trials of Nazi war criminals i...

European romanticism was not only heterogeneous and internally disputed. She also had to defend herself against the Enlightenment and Classicism th...

In writing the series of historical narratives to which the present work pertains, it has been the object of the author to furnish to the reading c...

A reprint of the 1966 Bobbs-Merrill edition. This anthology assembles the contemporary writings not only of the New Dealers-the men who devised and...

A reprint of the 1966 Bobbs-Merrill edition. This anthology assembles the contemporary writings not only of the New Dealers-the men who devised and...

Contents: Glossary and Index of Names; Supplement I: Glossary and Index of Names to East Norse Texts; Supplement II: Glossary and Index of Names to...

Contents: Abbreviations and Symbols; 1. Introduction; 2. Pronunciation and Orthography; 3. Morphology and Syntax; A postscript on 'impersonal const...

Take a journey through Manhattan neighborhoods with this colorful collection of New York City photographs and postcards. Learn about the history th...

Aerial night fighting against the Japanese in World War II demanded the merger of a special type of pilot and plane. This is the story of those pil...

This volume provides readings from the works of eighteen Latin American thinkers of the nineteenth century who were engaged in articulating and exa...

This volume provides readings from the works of eighteen Latin American thinkers of the nineteenth century who were engaged in articulating and exa...

North Pacific Quadrangle Fifty Years After Balance Of Power & Back To The Future

Horace's Odes enjoys a long tradition of translation into English, most famously in versions that seek to replicate the quantitative rhythms of the...

Horace's Odes enjoys a long tradition of translation into English, most famously in versions that seek to replicate the quantitative rhythms of the...

Lombardo's Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad . "[Lombardo] has brought his laconic w...

Lombardo's Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad . "[Lombardo] has brought his lacon...