Questioning Collapse

Edited by Patricia A. McAnany

Questioning Collapse challenges those scholars and popular writers who advance the thesis that societies – past and present – collapse because of behavior that destroyed their environments or because of overpopulation.

From Asian to Global Financial Crises

Andrew Sheng

This is a unique insider account of the new world of unfettered finance. The book explains how current financial policies and regulation failed to deal with a global bubble and makes recommendations on what must change.

Rommel's Desert War

Martin Kitchen

Martin Kitchen's masterful new history of the Axis campaign provides a fundamental reassessment of the key battles of 1941–1943, Rommel’s generalship, and the campaign’s place within the broader strategic context of the war.

Conceptual Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Art

David W. Galenson

David W. Galenson combines social scientific methods with qualitative analysis to produce a fundamentally new interpretation of modern art that will give readers a far deeper appreciation of the art of the past century, and of today, than is available elsewhere.

Eichmann's Men

Hans Safrian

Hans Safrian's path-breaking work on Adolf Eichmann and his Nazi helpers chronicles the escalation of Nazi anti-Semitic policies beginning in 1933 and during World War II to the "final solution."

The Monthly Sky Guide

Ian Ridpath

This classic beginner's guide to the night sky has been updated with planet positions and forthcoming eclipses up to the end of the year 2014, a guide to observing the Moon, and information on observing the four brightest planets: Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.

Global Warming

John Houghton

John Houghton's market-leading textbook is now in full color and includes the latest IPCC findings, making it the definitive guide to climate change.

First Language Acquisition

Eve V. Clark

This new edition of Eve Clark's highly successful textbook focuses on children's acquisition of a first language.

Victorian Literature and Culture

Victorian Literature and Culture encourages high quality original work concerned with all areas of Victorian literature and culture, including music and the fine arts.

Austrian History Yearbook

Founded in 1965 by R. John Rath, the Austrian History Yearbook remains the only English-language peer-reviewed journal devoted to the history of the territories in Central Europe that were formerly under Habsburg rule.

Iraq, 1990–2006 Set

Edited by Philip E. Auerswald

The revelatory volumes of Iraq, 1990–2006: A Diplomatic History through Documents detail the diplomatic saga involving Iraq and the international community from 1990 to 2006.

Dictionary of Irish Biography 9 Volume Set

Edited by James McGuire

Published in collaboration with the Royal Irish Academy, the Dictionary of Irish Biography is the most comprehensive and authoritative biographical reference work available both in print and online for Ireland.