This book analyses a key episode in the cultural Cold War - the formation of the Congress for Cultural Freedom. This study combines archival research, cultural history and the theory of Gramscian political economy.

Fantasy fans, rejoice! Seven years after writer and editor Robert Silverberg made publishing history with Legends, his acclaimed anthology of original short novels by some of the greatest writers in fantasy fiction, the long-awaited second volume is here. Legends II picks up where its illustrious predecessor left off. All of the bestselling writers represented in Legends ...

Will be a welcome contribution to recent debates in historical archaeology. It will be of interest to students and scholars working in the fields of history and archaeology.

Special edition including the complete text of the Gospel of ThomasElaine Pagels, one of the world's most important writers and thinkers on religion and history, and winner of the National Book Award for her groundbreaking work The Gnostic Gospels, now reflects on what matters most about spiritual and religious exploration in the twenty-first century. ...

The body of Grace Peltier, a brilliant Ph.D. candidate, is found in the front seat of her car on a back road in northern Maine. No one wants to believe it was suicide - not her father, not former U.S. senator Jack Mercier, and not private detective Charlie Parker, who has been hired to investigate the young woman's untimely death. But when a mass grave is accidentally discovered nearby, Parker realizes that their deaths and the violent passing of Grace Peltier are part of the same mystery, one that has its roots in her family history and in the origins of the shadowy organization known as the Fellowship.

Liquid Pleasures is an engrossing study of the social history of drinks in Britain from the late 17th century to the present. Connecting drinks and related substances to empire as well, the book also covers the drinks revolution of the 1990s.

This GuideBook introduces and assesses Hegel's influential work, Introduction to the Philosophy of History, explaining both key concepts and Hegel's continuing relevance to the historical debate. It is ideal for newcomers to Hegel.

Free excerpts are available for this ebook: Download Free Excerpt for Adobe Reader Download Free Excerpt for Microsoft Reader Download Free Excerpt for Palm Reader No elite military commando unit since the darkest days of Korea and Vietnam has a more storied history than the U.S. Navy SEALs, a stealth fighting force legendary for its abilities to wage covert war on sea, air, and land. Now former SEAL Command Master Chief Dennis 'Snake' Chalker takes us deep inside the celebrated SEAL Team Six for an astonishing, firsthand look at the formation, preparation, and deployment of a crack detachment meticulously trained for an ongoing mission that has become essential to the survival of our nation. Free excerpt available for this ebook - click more.

After flesh came the machine, after the machine came the spirit. All those ancestral dreams and mythologies of mankind, alas, has proved illusory, a matter of the brain only; a thousand years of human history has come to an end--Mankind born without a soul, like almost everything else, had to to invent one. What does he do with it?YESTERDAY OF TOYS puts Tomorrow's Soul into Today's Body! Artificially intelligent robots and the remnants of humanity confront a transcendent, alien humanity on its last evolutionary trajectory--at the end of time. The ultimate future of entertainment and evolution is not virtual!

This collection of scholarly essays explores the relation of Hobbes' work to history as a branch of learning.

During the 12th and 13th centuries, the order of warrior monks called the Poor Knights of the Temple of Jerusalem became one of Christendom's major armies, amassing vast wealth, landholdings-and knowledge. To this day, legends abound regarding the occult treasures and magic powers wielded by the Knights Templar. Now Katherine Kurtz and Deborah Turner Harris, coauthors of the bestselling Adept series, combine history, magic, and mysticism in an adventure set against a background of courage, mystery, and war....The Temple and the Stone.