The 3rd edition of this comprehensive atlas provides a thorough snapshot of water usage as it stands today. Environmentalists are in the process of becoming more aware of the... Read More

All will come away from this New York City volume with newfound love for the beguiling, legendary, volatile town. Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, edited by Rebecca... Read More

This history of modern anarchy highlights the “outsider” perspectives that drive modern rebellions. Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the 20th Century, by Andrew Cornell,... Read More

The disruptive events leading up to the Gothic sack of Rome in 410 included many years of attacks on the temples and shrines of the Roman Empire’s traditional religion. After... Read More

Back in the day, mainstream newspapers and magazines loved to present the civil rights struggle in photos depicting black activists as passive victims of Southern white racism,... Read More

From mercurial to mentally unstable, interviews highlight legendary composer’s Vesuvian stream-of-consciousness conversation. James Joyce’s mastery of the written word might... Read More

Anthropologist challenges notion that human ancestors were defined by “killer ape” aggression; weapons reflected problem-solving abilities. In his new book, Rough and... Read More

If all teachers today had the freedom and ingenuity to create an engaging and challenging educational program for their students similar to the one in this book, then more of... Read More

In the 1930s, General Electric and an architectural magazine sponsored “The House for Modern Living” contest, inviting architects to design a house for “Mr. and Mrs.... Read More

An introspective, goody-two-shoes growing up in Vermont, and then a self-proclaimed hippy during her college years, Jody Williams was first sparked into political action by a... Read More

Robert Duncan, we learn in the first few pages, was adopted by a theosophist couple who happened to be looking for a boy born at precisely the date and time that he was born.... Read More

Iconic and soaring, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco holds a dark distinction as the world’s top site for suicide. Since it opened in 1937, there have been more than... Read More