East Africa and Its Invaders, originally published in 1938, covers the history of mid-East Africa...

The four-year reign of the divine Elagabalus, a most unusual, often outrageous, Roman emperor, as...

NO OTHER scientist has so aptly earned the title of "e;father"e; of his branch of science...

EVERYONE IN HIGH SCHOOL WONDERED WHO WOULD WIN THE FREE FLYING LESSONS...'Tomboy' Loretta Larkin ...

Throughout his career as composer, conductor, and pianist, Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) was an...

Duddington Pell Chalmers is a young man of taste, class, and girth. As trustee for a local art mu...

In To the Actor Michael Chekhov has recorded brilliantly the results of his many years of experim...

First published in 1954, this is the Second Edition of the single-volume amalgamation of husband-...

THE TWELVE OLYMPIANS, originally published in 1952, gives a new account of the twelve chief gods ...

Catherine Drinker Bowen was a Philadelphian with music in her veins....Into this book she has cra...

LIEUTENANT PAT ABBOTT and his lovable but slightly rattle-brained wife, Jean, have become about t...

Originally published in 1928, this book forms an excellent and detailed account of the Zambesi Ex...