S. E. Schlosser 
Spooky Washington [PDF ebook] 
Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore

Between 1780 and 1920, modern conceptions of emotion-conceptions still very much present in the 21st century-first took shape. This book traces that history, charting the changing meaning and experie …

Recently, scholarship has paid increasing attention to the Soviet dissident movement that emerged in the mid-20th century; but what, Petr A. Druzhinin asks, happened to those academics who did not fo …

Covering political, military, economic and social history, Norway in the Second World War is the most authoritative book on the subject in the English language. This innovative study describes how th …

Focusing on children’s work on family farms in western Canada, an “absolutely fascinating . . . marvellously fresh account of the lives of prairie pioneers.” —The Calgary Herald The phrase …

This volume reflects the different methods and new approaches to the study of Byzantine history that have characterized the work of Paul Speck, to whom it is dedicated, and above all, his insistence …

Many remarkable things about Fife”s origins never understood before are set out in detail here – a must read for all Fifers and those with an interest in the County. Drawn together for the first tim …

Evolution: The Basics is an engaging introduction to the history, development and science of the theory of evolution. Beginning pre-Darwin and concluding with the latest research and controversies, r …

First published in 1993. The Yezidis are a community of around 200, 000 Kurds who possess their own religion, quite distinct from Islam, which most other Kurds profess, and from the Christian and Jew …

First published in 2001. The psychological basis of the Roman Empire was a ruthless, frequently sadistic ”will to power”. This impulse is highly manifest in Ancient Roman attitudes towards sex. Aft …