Edison, NJ: Chartwell Books, 2000 Stories and magnificient images trace the routes of the first European navigators among the wonders of the Southern Seas. Visit atolls sheltering brilliant blue lagoons, volcanic islands coverd with steaming jungles, strips of white sand nestled between banks of coral. Follow the ring of fire, the range of volcanoes that surrounds the Pacific, and land on dozens of beautiful islands, each with a culture of their own. Great armchair travel. 224 pages, brilliantly photographe... more information

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New York: Walker & Company, 2003 At the turn of the first millennium, a young Viking, Thorvald, set out to convert his native Iceland to Christianity. Discouraged by his homeland's refusal to abandon its pagan customs, he sought refuge in the Christian center of the world - Jerusalum. A thousand years later, Victoria Clark retraced Thorvald's path in an attempt to shed light upon the world of the young pilgrim. As she shows in this book, the events of the eleventh century provide important clues... more information

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New York: Thames & Hudson, 1995 Out of the darkness, out of the primeval forest, comes the hero who will save the world. He is the protector, the man of invincible might. The greatest names in history and mythology of all races are those of heroes - Herakles and Samson, Perseus and St. George - who fought with monsters to rescue the eternal Woman, the princess, the anima. But the nature of these monsters changed. First, the quest turned inward, taking love, intimacy, and moral self-improvement as its ai... more information

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London: Amber Books, 2003 This book outlines changing ideas of law and punishment, from the ancient Babylonian Code of Hammurabi through Islamic Sharia Law to modern notions of rehabilitation and the continued practice of corporal and capital punishment. Discover strange and terrible methods of punishment amongs these pages, including the pillory, flogging, branding, hanging, drawing and quartering, the guillotine, the bastinado, death of a thousand cuts, the scavenger's daughter, crucifixion, lethal in... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Public Affairs, 2004 A tale of monstrous corruption, titanic egos, and delicate diplomacy." - The Washington Post. Elie Wiesel has provided the foreword to this intriguing book. Imperfect Justice is Eizenstat's personal account of how the Holocaust became a political and diplomatic battleground fifty years after the war's end, as the issues of dormant bank accounts, slave labor, confiscated property, looted art, and unpaid insurance policies convulsed Europe and Amer... more information

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Switzerland: Edition Stemmle, 1997 As early as 1968 Benedict J. Fernandez documented the confrontation between highly vocal minorities and the "quiet majority." A number of photographs from that time have been reproduced in this book. Here was a new phenomenon, even for late-1960s America: The confrontation with minorities who saw it as a part of their constitutional right to free speech that the public would also listen to their views. Many of his photographs contributed significantly to public a... more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Da Capo Pr, 2005 Perhaps no trial changed the course of history so much as one that took place in London in 1772; the case of James Somerset, a black man rescued from a ship bound for the West Indies slave markets. At this landmark trial, two encompassing worldviews clashed in an event of passionate drama and far-reaching significance. Now noted legal historian Steven M. Wise recreates each exciting moment of the case that slave owners contended would do nothing less than bring t... more information

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New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997 The 19th century transition to a small family size in the Western world was unprecedented, and the reasons people began having fewer children are still not clear. Using contemporary novels, letters, biographies and poetry, this book brings forward the voices of the past to give their own comments and views on a wide range of issues which may have influenced that decision. Individuals in fact and fiction discuss families, love and marriage, as well as childbearing, chil... more information

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New York: Harry N Abrams Inc, 2002 With hot coursing lava and rolling clouds of ash, a volcanic eruption is one of nature's most exciting and deadly shows. From the ancient ruins of Pompeii, to the recently awakened Guagua Pichincha near the equator, Bourseiller's stunning photographs trace the history and terrible beauty of volcanoes while the text provides the most up-to-date methods for predicting and adapting to the eruptions of these awe-inspiring giants. This is a beautifully-rendered, enormou... more information

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United Kingdom: Sutton Pub Ltd, 2005 In this fascinating book Erik Durschmied looks into the history of witch delusion and the cruel butchers who hunted and executed so-called witches, from the Middle Ages to modern times. Who where these monsters, those who accused, arrested, judged and comdemned without showing consideration or pity? What were their motives? Did they act to uphold faith, or was it for self-protection? Was it out of personal vindictiveness or public recognition? This book begins with the t... more information

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New York: The Platt & Nourse Co. Xenophon was a soldier, mercenary, and writer. This book, and the journey it narrates is his best known work. Xenophon accompanied the Ten Thousand, a large army of Greek mercenaries hired by Cyrus the Younger, who intended to seize the throne of Persia from his brother, Artaxerxes II. Though Cyrus's army was victorious at Cunaxa in Babylon (401 BC), Cyrus himself was killed in the battle, rendering the victory irrelevant and the expedition a failure. Xenophon played... more information

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