Between 1450 and 1550, a remarkable century of intellectual exchange developed across the Eastern Mediterranean. As Renaissance Europe depended on knowledge from the Ottoman Empire, and the courts of Mehmed…

This is the first academic volume to examine the librarian and archival professional through the lens of sequential art. The portrayal of libraries/librarians in sequential art has a long history…

An insightful new take on the life and work of one of the world's most remarkable investors: Warren Buffett

In the 30th Anniversary Edition of The Warren Buffett Way, celebrated…

The Harpe Brothers were America's first serial killers. Their tales of brutality are hauntingly familiar, but little is known about the women who traveled with them on their murderous spree…

The direct primary, in which voters rather than party leaders or convention delegates select party nominees for state and federal offices, was one of the most widely adopted political reforms…

A fundamentally new account of the American frontier, showing that it was defined not by hardy pioneers or imperial power but by sheer mayhem

In From Nothing to 90, Will Klein chronicles his life from hardscrabble beginnings as an adopted child in a Saskatchewan family struggling through the "Dirty Thirties" to early success as…