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For millennia, lions, tigers and their man-eating kin have kept our dark, scary forests dark and scary and their predatory majesty has been the stuff of folklore. But by the year 2150, big predators may only exist on the other side of glass barriers and chain-link fences. Their gradual disappearance is changing the very nature of our existence. We...

This is a fabulously entertaining book from the ultimate authority on those almost believable tales that happen to a "friend of a friend". Jan Harold Brunvand has been collecting and studying modern folklore for over twenty years and presents the best stories in their best retellings, with their latest variations, and examples of how the stories...

Ethan Kapstein documents how the new international economic order has torn huge holes in the welfare system, putting workers and the economy itself at risk. The founding premises of the post-World War II international economic agreements were that they would lead to greater wealth and that those gains would be shared equitably. The closing decades...

For society to thrive long into the future, we must move beyond our unsustainable consumer culture to one that respects environmental realities. In State of the World 2010, the Worldwatch Institute s award-winning research team reveals not only how human societies can make this shift but also how people around the world have already started to...

Elizabeth D. Leonard tells the dramatic story of the assassination, the roundup of suspects, and the ensuing trials of those involved in the crimes of April 14. Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt - a Kentuckian divided against those within his own family over the war - was put in charge of the investigation and the initial trial of the...

Refutes modern misconceptions about the eighteenth-century business philosopher's influence to argue that his theories about unregulated business and small government as depicted in such landmark publications as An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations and The Theory of Moral Sentiments transcend modern political categories....