A Human History of the Mediterranean; By Davide Abulafia; Oxford University Press; 816 pp., $68.00 If you read the better class of these ocean books, you might soon find yourself convinced of the ...

The world I remember, as a 12-year-old ... to the human spirit’s resolve to survive when courage is required. Glen Pearson is co-director of the London Food Bank and a former Liberal MP for ...

A book for baseball fans only. Around the world a sleeping sickness plunges women into a strange, cocooned state. If awakened, they turn homicidal. King and his son screw this global story down to ...

Parkin’s ethically haunted book offers a cinematic telling of the brutal Nazi siege of the Russian city of Leningrad (now called St. Petersburg) during World War II, with a focus on the ...

Researchers and policymakers throughout the world are looking for ways to respond ... research and teaching unit at LMU's Department of Geography. "We know that these risks cause damages and ...

NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 23- The Ministry of Education has officially launched the distribution of Grade 9 textbooks, which have been approved by the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) to ...

The launch ceremony and compilation sharing session for Macao Gazetteer Series: Book of Geography was held today (21 October) at the University of Macau (UM). Speaking at the event, Ho Iat Seng, chief ...

A GCSE textbook that says jihad in Gaza is “justified” has been pulled from print. The book – designed for 16-year-olds sitting the AQA Religious Studies exam – says “social oppression ...

“Demonstrates how much can lie within one person. … A quiet but hard-staring fighter of a book, ‘Mammoth’ is, in a world doomed to end, one woman’s strange and powerful cry against her ...

So cats here are generally friendly, too, because people are kind to them," Hassan says in "Cats of the World." The new book, a coffee-table-style volume, is filled with Marttila's vivid ...