Drunk hussite trilogy

Drunk hussite trilogyAn "entertaining and enlightening" deep dive into the alcohol soaked origins of civilizationand the evolutionary roots of humanity's appetite for intoxication (Daniel E. Lieberman, author of Exercised). While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive, convincing answer to the basic question of why humans want to get high in the first place. Drunk elegantly cuts

One Nation Under God reveals how an unholy alliance of money

The much-anticipated

the outlaw gunslinger Jesse James

under the care of a warden whose penchant for violence is legendary -- surely nothing could be worse

Wallace is an astonishing storyteller whose fiction reminds us why we learned to read in the first place

day in and day out

this rip-roaring adventure set at the dark dawn of the East Texas oil boom is the perfect introduction to Joe R

The Man Who Found Time is also a parable about the power of books to shape the history of ideas

Krause shares fascinating insight into how deeply animals rely on their aural habitat to survive and the damaging effects of extraneous noise on the delicate balance between predator and prey

Vincent Gigante

The Giants Lose The Pennant

perhaps the totem of Artifice and Kitsch -- nevertheless a potent symbol through which to plumb our troublesome yet powerful visions of nature