The sungod's journey throught the Netherworld

reading the Ancient Egyptian Amduat

Foreword by Erik Hornung.

Why intelligence fails

lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War

The U.S. government spends enormous resources each year on the gathering and analysis of intelligence, yet the history of American foreign policy is littered with missteps and misunderstandings that have resulted from intelligence failures. In Why Intelligence Fails, Robert Jervis examines the politics and ...

European unions

labor's quest for a transnational democracy

Roland Erne's view of transnational trade union networks challenges the assertion that no realistic prospect exists for remedying the European Union's democratic deficit - that is, its domination by corporate interests and lack of a cohesive European people. His book describes the emergence of ...

Imperial Japan at its zenith

the wartime celebration of the Empires 2,600th anniversary

"In this deeply researched book Kenneth J. Ruoff offers an intriguing new perspective on wartime Japan. His sweeping survey of the cultural landscape in 1940 demonstrates the many ways, from song contests to colonial tourism, that cultural consumption sustained popular morale and support for the ...

The making of Saint Louis

kingship, sanctity, and Crusade in the Later Middle Ages

Canonized in 1297 as Saint Louis, King Louis IX of France (r. 1226- 1270) was one of the most important kings of medieval history and also one of the foremost saints of the later Middle Ages. As a saint, Louis became the centerpiece of an ...

Atomic tragedy

Henry L. Stimson and the decision to use the bomb against Japan

Atomic Tragedy offers a unique perspective on one of the most important events of the twentieth century. As secretary of war during World War II, Henry L. Stimson (1867-1950) oversaw the American nuclear weapons program. In a book about how an experienced, principled man faltered ...

Dishonest dollars

the dynamics of white-collar crime

In an environment where corporate scandals fill the headlines and ethics courses have suddenly become standard fare in business schools, Terry Leap offers welcome insights into and useful ways of thinking about a critical problem that permeates our society. His main contribution is an integrative ...

Agents of Empire

spanish ambassadors in sixteenth-century Italy

Historians have long held that during the decades from the end of the Habsburg-Valois Wars in 1559 until the outbreak in 1618 of the Thirty Years' War, Spanish domination of Italy was so complete that one can refer to the period as a "pax hispanica ...

Mummies and death in Egypt

CONTENTS: From prehistory to the first two dynasties. The old kingdom. The middle kingdom. The new kingdom. The later stages of pharaonic history. The Graeco-Roman period. The passage from this life to the next. Animal mummies. The last mummies. Historical background. Methods of studying mummies ...

The globalizers

the IMF, the world Bank and their borrowers

The greatest success of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank has been as globalizers. But at whose cost? Would borrowing countries be better off without the IMF and World Bank? This book takes readers inside these institutions and the governments they work with ...

Economic nationalism in a globalizing world

The new masters of capital

american bond rating agencies and the politics of creditworthiness

The origins of L'Art Nouveau

the bing empire

The deeds of count Roger of Calabria Sicily and of his brother Duke Robert Guiscard

Pythagoras

his life, teaching and influence

Nobility reimagined

the patriotic nation in eighteenth-century France

The roots of Evil

Death and salvation in Ancient Egypt

"Human beings," the acclaimed Egyptologist Jan Assmann writes, "are the animals that have to live with the knowledge of their death, and culture is the world they create so they can live with that knowledge." In his new book, Assmann explores images of death and ...

The two intellectual worlds of John Locke

man, person, and spirits in the essay

Shipting landmarks

property, proof, and dispute in Catalonia around the year 1000

In a major contribution to the debate among medievalists about the nature of social and political change in Europe around the turn of the millennium, Jeffrey A. Bowman explores how people contended over property during the tenth and eleventh centuries in the province of Narbonne ...