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As uncontrolled development forces crises in the natural world, deeply ingrained human connections with the earth are changing. Oral history''s proven ability to explore issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality make it a uniquely...

In The Merciful Warrior, author Cathal J. Nolan compiles and analyzes acts of mercy and decency in war, drawing upon centuries of military history and dozens of wars to challenge nationalist myths, the usual heroic fabrications, and all claims to exclusive...

<p>In the great naturalist tradition of E. O. Wilson, Jae Choe takes readers into a miniature world dominated by six-legged organisms. This is the world of the ant, an insect that humans, as well as most other life forms, depend upon for their very...

In 1614 the shogunate prohibited Christianity amidst rumors of foreign plots to conquer Japan. But more than the fear of armed invasions, it was the ideological threat¿or "spiritual conquest"¿that the Edo shogunate feared the most. This book...