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In December 1981, as Poland's government imposed martial law and severed communications with the West, the CIA launched…

In 1981, the Soviet-backed Polish government declared martial law to crush a budding democratic opposition movement.…

Black icons in history have often been slapped with harsh and demeaning labels that were intended to discredit their…

This book, as the subtitle suggests, touches on a topic that concerns all of us: roads and paths. We are all connected…

A revised and updated edition of the classic book on self-harm. As many as two million people in the US, and one in…

Starting in the mid-nineteenth century, African American performers began acting as blackface fools to entertain…

Many of Darwin's scientific advances were tested and proven in his own garden and greenhouse, using simple tools to…

Making decisions is hard. This book provides a framework for any choice, from what to eat for lunch to how to settle and…

An updated edition of the international bestseller distills the fifty best decision-making models used in MBA courses…

"Men and women are just different!"  NOPE. Not according to science we aren't. This wickedly funny book lays out the…

What circumstances and beliefs lead so many people in colonial North America during the 17th century to accuse women…

Diane Arbus was renown for her unsettling photographs that inspired and polarized viewers, and she was already a…

This book should appeal to anyone who questions gender norms and roles, and especially those who don't! Despite being…

Do dogs dream? Can they recognize themselves in the mirror or understand what they’re seeing on television? Are they…

A journalist, spurred by a sleepwalking injury, got obsessed with sleep, and this book is the result. Delving into the…

This portable and concise guide offers a collection of short and practical techniques to help readers be more powerful…

This Edward Gorey-inspired cartoon history explores the deaths of the ancient Roman emperors ranging from Romulus…

This book explores cultural fantasies of the North, from sea monsters and a mountain-sized magnet to mythmaking racism.…

We keep hearing about record heat waves, unprecedented forest fires, wettest or snowiest days on record, and other…

With 50 million new mental illness diagnoses every year, we pretty much all know someone who's affected, and for many of…

In this masterpiece of journalism on one of the most talked about Supreme Court cases of all time, author and reporter…

Duck, ruburb, tower farm, big box, and pig-in-a-python are among the dozens of zany terms invented by real estate…

A science journalist looks into the evolutionary anthropology of one of the key defining human relationships. Literature…

Conflicts, within and between people, lie at the root of emotional distress, says psychologist Susan Heitler, drawing on…

Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care…

What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years…

The highly acclaimed interrogation of the cultural history of the garden, weaving together personal, political,…

Gender-variant clients are frequently misunderstood and therefore inappropriately treated by clinicians. Biologically…

With prose that quite poetic, these reflections and essays on two different corners of England explore the notion of a…

This illustrated volumes takes readers on a journey through the little known world of elephants and their riders.…