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Politicians have talked endlessly about the economic devastation wrought by the recent financial crisis, but what about the damage it's done to our bodies and minds? Pioneering public health researchers mine data from around the globe to demonstrate that bad fiscal policy can have disastrous consequences.

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A “brilliant” (Los Angeles Review of Books) history of accounting, showing how financial and political accountability has shaped the rise and fall of nations and empires Whether building a road or fighting a war, leaders from ancient Mesopotamia to the present have relied on financial accounting to track their state's assets and guide its policies. Basic accounting tools such as auditing and double-entry bookkeeping form the basis of modern ca...

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This path-breaking study of gender and sexuality is the first to go beyond the nature/nurture debate to offer an alternate framework for considering questions of sex and sexuality.

Frankl explores the sometimes unconscious human desire for inspiration or revelation, and illustrates how life can offer profound meaning at every turn.

This grand narrative history of the world's first experiment in globalization offers lessons for an ever-expanding American Empire--from England's most talented young historian.

The complete history of the Ottoman empire, written for the general reader

Fully revised and updated to include the latest discoveries in cosmic science

From one of the most important economists in the Third World comes a revolutionary and practical plan for transforming under-performing economies, based on the forgotten history of how wealth was created in the West. Charts & tables.

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As a glance down any street in America quickly reveals, American women have forgotten how to dress. We chase fads, choose inappropriate materials and unattractive cuts, and waste energy tottering in heels when we could be moving gracefully. Quite simply, we lack the fashion know-how we need to dress professionally and flatteringly.As historian and expert dressmaker Linda Przybyszewski reveals in The Lost Art of Dress , it wasn't always like th...

It's a story that has never been told ... until now. Imagine being sealed into a closed environment for two years -- cut off from the outside world with only seven other people -- enduring never-ending hunger, severely low levels of oxygen, and extremely difficult relationships. Crew members struggled to survive in Biosphere 2, where they swore nothing would go in or out -- no food or water, not even air -- all in the name of science. For the ...

Updated for the first time, the classic book on why cooperation is not only natural but also the best survival strategy.

A Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a loving husband and father, an enthusiastic teacher, a surprisingly accomplished bongo player, and a genius of the highest caliber- -Richard P. Feynman was all these and more. Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From the Beaten Track - collecting over forty years' worth of Feynman's letters- offers an unprecedented look at the writer and thinker whose scientific mind and lust for life made him a legend in his own ...

The first classic of 21st-century anthropology."--John Tooby and Leda Cosmides, University of California, Santa Barbara

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A controversial new theory about child sexual abuse and its treatment