"Fifty crucial lessons from history that are not only fascinating in their own right but are constant reminders about how the world often opereates."--Jacket.

Humanitarian groups have failed, Fiona Terry believes, to face up to the core paradox of their activity: humanitarian action aims to alleviate suffering, but by

The third of five books in one of the greatest works in modern philosophical naturalism. Santayana's Life of Reason, published in five books from 1905 to 1906,

A concise survey of the culture and civilization of mankind, The Lessons of History is the result of a lifetime of research from Pulitzer Prize–winning histor

When Randy Craig lands a contract working at Alberta's historic Rutherford House she never expected to stumble upon an unsolved mystery in the Alberta Archives.