This impressively illustrated companion volume to a forthcoming TV series on the destruction of the Aztec and Inca civilizations and related explorations is necessarily one of high drama and telling contrasts. It is also broad-based and... Read More

Over twenty-three years after her death, Maria Callas is still one of the best known and best-selling opera singers in the world. It has been estimated that more than 30,000,000 of her records, cassettes, and CDs had been sold and sales... Read More

“He came on to the stage with simplicity and a certain sort of beauty, and that beautiful diction, and of course, that fabulous voice, which was like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.” So said Alec Guinness of John Gielgud. He was... Read More

Hudson compiled this book from transcripts of interviews she conducted during the past fifteen years with thirty-two songwriters, plus author Larry McMurtry and former football coach Darrell Royal. Some of her subjects—such as Willie... Read More

“The Monster has struck again” became an expected headline in London’s racy newspapers during 1788?90, appearing over fifty times and filling the minds of respectable women with fear, expectation, or hope. Though the Monster was... Read More

Whispering the word “safari” can release soothing images of an exotic continent locked away in the hearts of travelers fortunate enough to experience an uncommon journey to this realm or satisfied to be swallowed up by expeditions... Read More

It seems that almost all little girls in North America love horses and many women have a palpable affection for a horse’s majesty, even if they have never raised, trained, been kicked by, or even ridden one themselves. The Native... Read More

The authors are meditation teachers and leaders of workshops on conscious living and dying. Speaking frankly and with humor, the Levines take turns explaining how each individual brings a lot of “baggage” to every relationship... Read More