"The Moundbuilders covers the entire sweep of Eastern Woodlands prehistory, with an emphasis on how societies developed from hunter-gatherers to village farmers and town-dwellers. Great strides have been made in recent research and many of the most impressive mounds, such as Poverty Point, Cahokia, and Moundville, are described and discussed in detail.". "This wide-ranging and copiously illustrated book, complete with a gazetteer of sites to visit,...

"Dr. Harold Klawans examines people ranging from the woman suffering from "painful foot and moving toe syndrome," whose case reminds him that we were once reptiles with brains at the bases of our spines, to the farmer from Indiana who didn't have mad cow disease, but something similar, caused by a protein-like pathogen that man himself has helped nurture by removing the pressures of natural selection from his herds of livestock and from his own communities....

Impressionist artists and their homes are inseparably linked: Monet and Giverny, Renoir and Les Cagnes, Pissarro and his Hermitage. This book follows the artists' daily activities and routines.

A resource that first helps readers discern whether or not a problem can be treated at home, offers information on treating common ailments through natural alternatives, and provides basic instruction in emergency care--

Published in conjunction with a 2011 exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, this volume celebrates the energetic waves of 19th-century-American ingenuity in a variety of cultural endeavors. Perry, who initiated and curated the exhibition, begins with Charles Wilson Peale's famous Philadelphia museum--the first American "Hall of Wonders." She then discusses democracy, Niagara Falls, the buffalo, trains, and big trees, among other topics--all...

Examination of how J. Edgar Hoover knew President Kennedy would be assassinated and the coverup that followed the assassination.

Galileo Galilei is a seminal figure in the history of science. His 1633 trial before the Holy Office of the Inquisition is the prime drama in the history of the conflict between science and religion. In Galileo's day, Rome was the capital of a sovereign theocratic power, which in 1600 had executed Giordano Bruno on similar charges and reserved the right to torture Galileo. Galileo was then sixty-nine years old and the most venerated scientist in Italy....

"Restoring three-dimensionality to more than fifty of these American sayings, Tippecanoe and Tyler Too turns cliches back into history by telling the life stories of the words that have served as our most powerful battle cries, rallying points, laments, and inspirations." "In individual entries on slogans and catchphrases from the early seventeenth to the late twentieth century, Jan R. Van Meter reveals that each one is a living, malleable entity...