History

Explore ancient methods of divination and fortune telling from around the globe. This book chronicles divination methods…

Drugs have had an important role in the social, cultural, and spiritual development of civilization from the most…

Since ancient times humans have built rituals around the dead and ideas of communing with the dead, often including…

For every Moriarty out there, there are a thousand other criminals without the know-how to make crime work for them.…

There's more to Celtic knotwork than meets the eye. Hidden behind the twirls and coils of this ancient and magical art…

Shadows are all around us, yet we hardly even think about them. Can we only see shadows and not objects themselves, as…

This biography and critical analysis focuses on rock superstar David Bowie's most influential—and strangest—decade,…

This book is a cultural biography of the stones that have been symbols of glamor, wealth, royalty, and eternal love.…

Woody Guthrie and his passionate social politics are as crucial today as they have ever been. A powerful voice for…

This book tells the story of how in 1986 Run-DMC's cover of Aerosmith's "Walk This Way" put hip-hop on the radio in a…

History is just so much more interesting when you can travel back in time to witness it first hand! This book gives you…

Trace the garden as a source of inspiration and metaphor back through centuries of history. A wide variety of artists,…

When The Rolling Stones started making music in the 60s, who could have guessed that they would go on to become one of…

In this true crime story, author Dean Jobb brings the reader back to the 1892 murder trial of Dr. Thomas Neill Cream,…

An exploration of the marvels of the universe told through brief portraits of 100 stars, revealing groundbreaking…

Ethnobotanist Enrique Salmón brings together his scientific knowledge of plants with the cultural and traditional…

If someone spent their entire life chained inside cave, only seeing images cast by shadows on the cave wall, how might…

Since the beginning the US government has reserved the tool of revoking citizenship in order to cast out unwanted…

After the horrific events of the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921, there was an official investigation... but it was far from…

This classic history of magic and the occult offers a comprehensive, illustrated history of magic and the occult from…

A fascinating connection drawing parallels between Homer's Odyssey, J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth stories, and South…

In this fascinating, beautifully illustrated history of the moon, author Hannah Pang and illustrator Thomas Hegbrook…

Do you love horror movies from the 80s? Probably not as much as Michael Gingold who collected newspaper ads for them…

At their best, punkhouses are a shelter from the storm of society and our dysfunctional families. At their worst, they…

This collection of medieval European stories of witchcraft and supernatural events will thrill you, chill you, and…

The Black Panthers are often credited with forcing the hand of the government when it came to providing free school…

I Am a Cat, originally written by Soseki Natsume in 1905, is a story intended to reflect on and poke fun at the…

The tales of these deities have been depicted by men over the centuries, revealing the ancient roots of toxic female…

Bananas have been around for a long time. Some scholars even think that Eve's apple was actually a banana. In this book,…

In this incredible and shocking true story, author William Rosenau explores the history of M19, or The May 19th…