A thought-provoking assessment and documentation of one of the most terrible periods in history - the rise and fall of the Nazi Party.

At age thirty in 1919, Adolf Hitler had no accomplishments. He was a rootless loner, a corporal in a shattered army, without money or prospects. A little more t

World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandably left a lon

Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it—with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmesh

In 14 original essays, this book reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from the ancient world to the digital present