Charles Alexander Eastman
An Indian boy's training, child-hood games, harvesting and feasts, legends told around a campfire-Eastman relates all aspects of the rich traditional life of the Santee Sioux, which had already passed away by the time this book was published. David Reed... (read more)
Geraldine Heng
"Empire of Magic" is expansive in scope, spanning the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries, and detailed in coverage, examining various types of romance -- historical, national, popular, chivalric, family, and travel romances, among others -- to see how... (read more)
Christopher Knight
For almost seven and a half centuries, a piece of cloth was venerated because it bore the image of the crucified Christ. However, but results of carbon dating have shown that the fabric could not have predated 1260. Now new evidence conclusively proves... (read more)