Dispels the prejudices and misconceptions that surround the Mayan Calendar, 2012, and the existence of extraterrestrial life.

Spengler's work describes how we have entered into a centuries-long "world-historical" phase comparable to late antiquity, and his controversial ideas spark debate over the meaning of historiography.

This abridgement, while reducing the work to one-sixth of its original size, preserves its method, atmosphere, texture, and for the most part, the author's very words.

The essays collected in this volume address these and similar phenomena, challenging and redefining established understandings of digital media and culture by employing the notions of belief, religion, and the supernatural.

The doyen of Confucian studies in America here constructs a magisterial overview of 3,000 years of East Asian civilizations, principally in the form of dialogues among the major systems of thought that have dominated the Asian world's ...

This copiously illustrated volume is the first systematic general work to do justice to the fruits of recent scholarship in the history of natural history.

"Today, only twenty percent of Americans are wed by age twenty-nine, compared to nearly sixty percent in 1960.

This book investigates Mill's notion of the stages from barbarism to civilisation, his belief in imperialism as part of the civilising process and his discourses on the blessings, curses and dangers of modernisation.

One hundred and fourteen years later, this is the first appearance in English of Firmin's trailblazing work in Anthropology and Pan-Africanist thought.

Jeremy Mynott explores the similarities and surprising differences between ancient perceptions of the natural world and our own.