It is impossible to ignore the sheer number of boxing stories that Robert E. Howard wrote. Serious or funny, spooky or adventurous, these stories represent a fierce creative outburst that would pave the way for his western hero, Breckenridge Elkins.[...]

The new project from Yann Arthus-Bertrand, author of the multimillion-copy international bestseller "Earth From the Air". The latest project from bestselling photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand, "Six Billion Others" presents the photographic portraits and transcribed responses of 500 men and women, in[...]

Much has been written about the forging of a British identity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The process, unconfined to the British Isles, ran across the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean and was played out in North America and the Caribbean. The identities of Irish Catholics or Highland Sc[...]

In Israel, anthropologists have customarily worked in their ""home""-in the company of the society that they are studying. In the Company of Others: The Development of Anthropology in Israel by Orit Abuhav details the gradual development of the field, which arrived in Israel in the early twentieth c[...]

Everyone recognizes leaders with "presence." They stand out for their seemingly innate ability to command attention and inspire commitment. But what is this secret quality they exude, exactly? Executive and CEO coach Kristi Hedges demystifies this elusive trait, revealing that leadership presence is[...]

A surprising and innovative look at class that proposes new approaches to this important topic. While references to gender, race, and class are everywhere in social theory, class has not received the kind of theoretical and empirical attention accorded to gender and race. A welcome and much-needed c[...]

In Knowing the Suffering of Others, legal scholar Austin Sarat brings together essays that address suffering as it relates to the law, highlighting the ways law imagines suffering and how pain and suffering become jurisprudential facts.From fetal imaging to end-of-life decisions, torts to internatio[...]

For insecure junior high students in the process of discovering who they are and where they fit in the world, the thought of sharing their faith or stepping out in service may be downright terrifying. How can youth leaders encourage them to be bold instead of bashful? "Uncommon: Sharing Your Faith a[...]

This report describes counterinsurgency strategies and practices and conditions in which U.S. small-footprint partnerships may succeed. Successful U.S. operations have been concentrated in favorable conditions, but most insurgencies occur in worst-case conditions. Case studies of the Philippines and[...]