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Taking the Piss : A Potted History of Pee
Adam Hart-Davis
Hardcover - $24.95
This recollection by much-admired author and presenter Adam Hart-Davis takes the reader on a fascinating tour of an altogether different kind--a whirlwind tour of the history and mysteries of urine. The scientific aspects are presented in the author' ...
The Happiness Myth : The Historical Antidote to What Isn't Working Today
Jennifer Michael Hecht
Paperback - $24.95
Historian Hecht looks at contemporary happiness advice and, with a newfound historical perspective, liberates readers from the scolding, quasi-scientific messages that insist there is a formula for happiness and offers real lessons that have stood th ...
Opium : A Portrait of the Heavenly Demon
Barbara Hodgson
Paperback - $24.95
Opium was first used in a surprising venue -- religious ceremonies -- but soon passed into common usage as a cure for various ailments during Victorian times; a resonant symbol of the romantic, dissolute East; and an inducer of fever dreams and worse ...
Their Gilded Cage : The Jekyll Island Club Members
Richard Jay Hutto
Hardcover - $47.95
Author Hutto presents the quintessential stories of America's oldest money. Readers will meet Joseph Pulitzer, J.P. Morgan, Vanderbilt, and other members in the parlors of the Jekyll Island Club, a pristine Georgia retreat.
Living the Enlightenment : Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Margaret C. Jacob
Paperback - $75.95
Long recognized as more than the writings of a dozen or so philosophes, the Enlightenment created a new secular culture populated by the literate and the affluent. Enamoured of British institutions, Continental Europeans turned to the imported masoni ...
Sport, Revolution and the Beijing Olympics
Grant Jarvie
Hardcover - $216.95
The 2008 Olympic Games will be held in Beijing, but many human rights activists support a boycott. They liken the circumstances to previous governments that used the games to glorify their regimes--most notoriously the Nazis in 1936. What has led to ...
Sport, Revolution and the Beijing Olympics
Grant Jarvie
Paperback - $80.95
The 2008 Olympic Games will be held in Beijing, but many human rights activists support a boycott. They liken the circumstances to previous governments that used the games to glorify their regimes--most notoriously the Nazis in 1936. What has led to ...
Too Free : A Chronicled History of the New American Black Race from Slavery to Present Day
Jr. Johnson
Paperback - $38.95
It is the authors belief (chronicled in this work), that the term Afro-American is a misguided and fallacious label for identifying people of color brought to America in chains. It therefore is a 'Must Read" for those (Black or White), desiring to un ...
Interiors of Empire : Objects, Space and Identity Within the Indian Subcontinent, c. 1800-1947
Robin D. Jones
Hardcover - $168.95