The essays in this collection, although written at different times and on different subjects, hav...

Americans generally like to think of themselves as members of a 'middle-class country'. Yet even ...

The best heaven and the worst hell are the same place. Travel with author John F. Williams into t...

In 1915, shortly after the outbreak of World War I, between twelve hundred and two thousand women...

Harris elucidates the important philosophical implications of the Anthropic Principle. Tracing th...

Though the end of the Civil War brought legal emancipation to blacks, it is a fact of history tha...

Only a century ago the privilege of washing with soap was mainly a special prerogative of the wel...

'The stories in this book come from many lands and times. They deal with some of the very questio...

First published in 1980, and now substantially revised and enlarged, this panoramic survey of phi...

This book is a study of attitudes toward animals in early modern Western culture. Emphasizing the...

Floggings, undernourishment, overwork, substandard housing, humiliation, physical and psychologic...