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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Tortoises, those unmistakable turtles, evolved from a lineage that split off from the familiar pond turtles roughly 100 million years ago. Over time, these plant-eating land turtles spread around the world, growing to an enormous size (depending on the species) and living so long that they have become...
Gene Jockeys
Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
The biotech arena emerged in the 1970s and 1980s, when molecular biology, one of the fastest-moving areas of basic science in the twentieth century, met the business world. Gene Jockeys is a detailed study of the biotech projects that led to five of the first ten recombinant DNA drugs to be approved...
The Epidural Book
A Woman's Guide to Anesthesia for Childbirth
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
The majority of women giving birth in the United States receive an epidural during labor and delivery; many others receive a spinal block. The Epidural Book fully explains anesthesia used during labor and vaginal delivery or C-section, with an emphasis on epidurals.
Dr. Richard Siegenfeld answers...
A Year across Maryland
A Week-by-Week Guide to Discovering Nature in the Chesapeake Region
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
When can you find ripe blueberries along the Appalachian Trail in Maryland? Where can you see the air filled with monarch butterflies as they migrate south each autumn? If you want to enjoy nature this weekend, where is the best place to visit? Bryan MacKay can tell you.
Written as an almanac,...
Penguins
The Animal Answer Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Flightless, iconic birds made even more famous by the 2005 film March of the Penguins, penguins conjure up images of caring parents, devoted couples, and tough survivors. In Penguins: The Animal Answer Guide, Gerald L. Kooyman and Wayne Lynch inform readers about all seventeen species, including the...
The Inquisition in New Spain, 1536–1820
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
The Inquisition! Just the word itself evokes, to the modern reader, endless images of torment, violence, corruption, and intolerance committed in the name of Catholic orthodoxy and societal conformity. But what do most people actually know about the Inquisition, its ministers, its procedures? This...
Inquisitorial Inquiries
Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
On the first day of Francisco de San Antonio's trial before the Spanish Inquisition in Toledo in 1625, his interrogators asked him about his parentage. His real name, he stated, was Abram Rubén, and he had been born in Fez of Jewish parents. How then, Inquisitors wanted to know, had he become a Christian...
by Leslie Day, Don Riepe
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Look around New York, and you’ll probably see birds: wood ducks swimming in Queens, a stalking black-crowned night-heron in Brooklyn, great horned owls perching in the Bronx, warblers feeding in Central Park, or Staten Island’s purple martins flying to and fro. You might spot hawks and falcons...
The Night Battles
Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives of Northern Italy, The Night Battles recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centered on the benandanti, literally, "good walkers." These men and women described fighting extraordinary ritual battles against witches and wizards in order...
Cults and Conspiracies
A Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Human beings have believed in conspiracies presumably as long as there have been groups of at least three people in which one was convinced that the other two were plotting against him or her. In that sense one might look back as far as Eve and the serpent to find the world’s first conspiracy. Whereas...
An Introduction to German Pietism
Protestant Renewal at the Dawn of Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
An Introduction to German Pietism provides a scholarly investigation of a movement that changed the history of Protestantism. The Pietists can be credited with inspiring both Evangelicalism and modern individualism.
Taking into account new discoveries in the field, Douglas H. Shantzfocuses...
Pennsylvania Germans
An Interpretive Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Destined to become the standard reference on Pennsylvania Germans (also known as the "Pennsylvania Dutch"), this book is the first survey of this extensive American group in nearly seventy-five years. Nineteen broad interpretive essays written by a distinguished group of historians, anthropologists,...
by Brian Froese
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Books about Mennonites have centered primarily on the East Coast and the Midwest, where the majority of Mennonite communities in the United States are located. But these narratives neglect the unique history of the multitude of Mennonites living on the West Coast. In California Mennonites, Brian Froese...
Genoa and the Sea
Policy and Power in an Early Modern Maritime Republic, 1559–1684
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Genoa enjoyed an important and ever-changing role in the early modern Mediterranean world. In medieval times, the city transformed itself from a tumultuous maritime republic into a stable and prosperous one, making it one of the most important financial centers in Europe. When Spanish influence in...