The reader-friendly format and the illuminating entries will make this guide a perfect gift for Catholics and anyone who loves a bit of historic trivia.

The Crusades were a startling and spectacular phenomenon that exerted a powerful influence on European development over a period of many centuries.

The 1968 excavation of the Neville Site in Manchester, New Hampshire, was a major event in the archaeological history of New England.

This is a novel approach which challenges utilitarian and cultural particularist explanations of the success of this kind of Christianity.

The contributions to this volume will be of interest to academic, students and health care professionals alike.

The authors propose a way of seeing that unites both critical scrutiny and spiritual involvement, as opposed to simple passive reception.

It investigates whether Sinn F??in can sustain the progress made over the last decade, retain its identity as the voice of radical republicanism, and ultimately, whether its vision of a united Ireland can prevail.

This book examines the issue of philosophical skepticism in the light of its relevance for the critique of modernity associated with the Frankfurt School.

The authors show that the new definition of male is a result of complex social, biological, and economic influences that will revolutionize how we define and reach the “new” male market.

Among the Maya of Xculoc, an isolated farming village in the lowland forests of the Yucatán peninsula, children contribute to household production in considerable ways. Thus this village, the subject of anthropologist Karen Kramer’s study, affords a remarkable opportunity for understanding the economics of childhood in a pre-modern agricultural setting.