TEA

Tea came late to England-after its arrival in Portugal, Holland, and France-but quickly became a national obsession. Tea gardens and shops sprang up everywhere in seventeenth-century England. Demand s...

Season of Blood

A journalist who covered the one-hundred-day Rwandan war in 1994 provides a disturbing account that suggests that a power-hungry group, using hate radio and local political leaders as brainwashers, pu...

The Great Pyramid

Offers a detailed description of how the Great Pyramid of Giza was designed and built, in a unique overview of a remarkable civilization during its most innovative and creative period.

Reisen und Entdeckungen in Nord- und Zentralafrika. 1849-1855

The Pirates of Somalia

Bahadur delivers a riveting narrative expos--the first ever--that examines Somalian pirates, how they live, the forces that have created piracy in Somalia, how they spend the ransom money, and how the...

Time for Machetes

In April-May 1994, 800,000 Rwandan Tutsis were massacred by their Hutu fellow citizens - about 10,000 a day - most of them hacked to death by machete. In the late 1990s, French author and journalist J...