Society and culture: general

The French drink, smoke and eat more fat than anyone in the world, yet they live longer and have fewer heart problems than the English and the Americans.

Starting in the 15th century, a fear of witchcraft and alternative practices grew into a hysteria.

This WWII naval history chronicles the development of small fighting boats as well as the evolution of their tactics and coastal warfare operations.

Fiendish ghosts, demonic spirits, and sinister skin walkers.

This book is for people like youwho have a dream but for some reason have not been able to make it happen.

This early work by William Lyon Phelps was originally published in 1926 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

Wie genau hängt Erfolg von der inneren Einstellung ab?

Mujeres situadas.

Bedford, 2045.

Author, Judy Crowell, a sixty-three-year old widow is shaken out of her topsy-turvy malaise by an old acquaintance, cajoling and wooing her back to the dating world of the twenty-first century, a world she last experienced when Eisenhower was president.

El presente volumen ofrece una revisin general de la situacin del espaol como lengua en contacto con otras lenguas en diversos pases del mundo hispano.

The myth of the Trickster-ambiguous creator and destroyer, cheater and cheated, subhuman and superhuman-is one of the earliest and most universal expressions of mankind.

"e;The Common Reader"e; is a collection of classic essays by Virginia Woolf, originally published in two parts in 1925 and 1935.

"Aquell que oblida les arts i els costums de l'antigor oblida la vida mateixa, feta de la lluita deIs homes i els seus afanys", va escriure el cretenc Pandelís Prevelakis en la seva Crònica d'una ciutat.

The book tells the story of Richard Cadman Etches, born in Warwickshire in 1753, who left home while still a youth to seek his fortune in London.

How do you decide what is a 'story' and what isn't?

War is far more than a series of military victories and defeats.

This book is the outcome of a difficult investigation, and a very remarkable story it is too.

¿Recuerdas la última vez que te prometiste decir lo que pensabas en una reunión de trabajo pero permaneciste sentado en silencio?

Easeful Death sets out in straightforward terms the main arguments both for and against the legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia.

This early work by Henry James was originally published in 1918 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

¿Qué significa ser creativo en la era digital?

¿No sabes qué son las fake news?

¿Qué nos impide sentir que ya somos creativos?

Les difficultés de l'enfant à apprendre, et surtout à maîtriser la langue, lui apparaissent le plus souvent comme une fatalité condamnant ses efforts à l'échec  ; car apprendre la langue pour l'enfant, c'est comme se confronter à un champ infiniment vaste, dangereux et mouvant.

This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1893 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

Did you know that myths are a powerful yet fun way of accessing local cultures and traditions?

Fantomina: Or, Love in a Maze (1725) is a novel by Eliza Haywood.

This book is a study of enjoyment and of the enjoyment of studying.

At the wedding altar, all of us envision our marriages as lifelong journeys with our ultimate companions.

This fascinating volume delves into the history of witchcraft and demonology.

Bio-Politicizing Cary Grant explicates the ethnic, racial and sexual ambiguity of Cary Grant’s star persona as both an inculcation of (and resistance to) biopolitical imperatives in fifties-era “America”.

The book Going back to Gettysburg will be bought like hot cakes in intellectual circles in both America and India because it is a light presentation of the uniqueness of the American Civil War (1861-1965) in which 6,00,000 American soldiers, mostly White, laid down their lives to secure the release of four million Black slaves in America.

The foundation of this collection of stories and essays is set close to Arunachala Mountain in Tamil Nadu.

Award-winning Hira Ali examines the myriad of challenges women face on their road to professional success.