The use of case studies to build and test theories in political science and the other social sciences has increased in recent years. Many scholars have argued that the social sciences rely too heavily on quantitative research and formal models and have attempted to develop and refine rigorous method[...]

Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is one of the most celebrated and significant films ever made. This book traces the movie's origins as a straightforward thriller novel through its evolution into a devastating black comedy, to its ultimate recept[...]

Take a trip through rock'n'roll's haziest, craziest period, beginning with the Beatles and Bob Dylan 'turning on' in a New York hotel, and continuing on through two-decades of wonderful, colourful, history-changing music. From psychedelic Woodstock warriors like Hendrix and the Jefferson Airplane th[...]

In this exhaustive and insightful reference text, rock writer and cultural critic George Case details the key names, dates, figures, and features of one of the biggest and most mythologized rock-and-roll groups of all time: Led Zeppelin. Here, finally, are the answers to the puzzles that have haunte[...]

On the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the publication of the book by Desmond Leslie and George Adamski, Flying Saucers Have Landed, independent investigator and researcher Michel Zirger provides an update about what really happened in the afternoon of November 20, 1952 in the Californian desert[...]