Killing Civilization uses case studies from across the modern and ancient world to develop a new model of incipient urbanism and its consequences. Read on... 

This book describes the history of bad clowns, why clowns go bad, and why many people fear them. Read on... 

In LIFE Story Gerald Moore----a writer and editor who worked at the magazine in the last glory years before TV made it obsolete----recalls the dizzying excitement and glamour of LIFE's fast-moving, powerful approach to spreading the news. Read on... 

From aardvark to zenzizenzizenzic, Word Drops collects a thousand obscure words and language facts in one fascinating chain of word associations. Read on... 

As one of the earliest collegiate institutions to begin collecting photography, the University of New Mexico Art Museum holds a stunning array of images that span photography's 175-year history. Read on... 

A Distant Heartbeat tells a tale of passion and heroism, centered on a fierce competition between brothers, a packet of missing letters, and the unforeseen results of family betrayal. Read on... 

The Girls in My Town creates an unforgettable portrait of a family in Los Angeles. Reaching back to her grandmother's childhood and navigating through her own girlhood and on to the present, Angela Morales contemplates moments of loss and longing, truth and beauty, motherhood and daughterhood. Read on... 

The politics of slavery and slave trade in nineteenth-century Cuba and Brazil is the subject of this acclaimed study, first published in Brazil in 2010 and now available for the first time in English. Read on...