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A Reading of NjA ls SagaNjA!ls saga, the greatest of the sagas of the Icelanders, was written around 1280. It tells the story of a complex feud, that starts innocently enough in a tiff over seating arrangement at a local feast, and expands over the course of 20 years to engulf half the country, in which both sides are effectively exterminated, Njal...

The Sizes of Everything and WhyThis book is a panoramic view of nature, from quarks to the edge of the universe. It holds this wide range of topics together by addressing the question how big are things and why are they that size. The book is full of curios as well as interesting facts and unique descriptions of dozens of things in the universe....

The Great War Letters of an Oxford FamilyThe First World War has survived as part of our national memory in a way no previous war has ever done. This collection of letters - which lay untouched for almost ninety years - allows a unique glimpse into the war as experienced by one family at the time, transporting us back to an era which is now...

How Psychology is Revolutionizing WarPsychology is the science that will determine who wins and who loses the wars of the 21st century, just as physics ultimately led the United States to victory in World War II. Changes in the world&'s political landscape coupled with radical advances in the technology of war will greatly alter how militaries are...

Sexuality and Patriarchal Rule in Massachusetts, 1700-1830Sexuality was critical to how individuals experienced, learned, and contested their place in early America. Regulating Passion shows the sweeping changes that affected the social and political morass centered on sexual behavior during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in...

Speculation about Shakespeare&'s own religious beliefs and responses to the Reformation have dominated discussions of faith in the playwright&'s work for decades. As a result, we often lose sight of what&'s truly important-the plays themselves. By focusing on those plays in several succinct, fluently written chapters, Richard McCoy reminds us of...