First published in Vienna in 1937, this classic story of romance and adventure has been compared to Dr. Zhivago and Romeo and Juliet.  Its mysterious author was recently the subject of a feature article in the New Yorker, which has inspired a forthcoming

A discussion of the uses, sources, and characteristics of mud, a useful and often poetic substance loved by man and beast.

"A very gripping read . . . a cautionary tale for our current leaders."; –The New York Times; ; In a riveting narrative that reads like a thriller, All the Shah’s Men brings to life the 1953 CIA coup in Iran–a regime change that ousted the country’s elect

This book, written by one of the best modern ethnologists, is a must for specialists as well as general readers interested in obtaining a profound view of the cosmology of Amazonian Indians. It provides the reader with a model for symbolic interpretation

Long before Rwanda and Bosnia and the Holocaust, the first genocide of the twentieth century occurred in Turkish Armenia in 1915. The essays in this collection examine how Americans learned of this catastrophe and tried to help its victims. Knowledge and