Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan a multi-week adventure to Tasmania. Hike the South Coast Track, spot feasting Tasmanian devils, slurp local oysters…

In Upscaling Downtown, anthropologist Brett Williams provides an ethnography of a changing urban neighborhood that she calls Elm Valley. Located in Washington, D.C., Elm Valley was one of the first…

The second chapter in the Time is Relative series continues the origin story of the mythical figure Father Time (Rolland Wright) as he grows from boy to man. After escaping…

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…

The chief object of this work has been to preserve, and to give at one view, the more serious traditions - religious, mythological and historical - of the four aboriginal…

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

In pre-modern Japan, wolves were worshipped as sacred; with the spread of rabies in the 18th century, they became feared and hunted; by 1905 wolves had disappeared from the country…

‘Politics as a Vocation’ examines what makes good political leaders and explores the effects of political action on modern societies. On one level, it summarizes the political scholarship of one…