Is the world at an historical threshold, where we risk dooming ourselves and our planet if we don't change the way we exploit the earth's resources? Or are environmentalists being alarmist, underestimating nature's resilience and humanity's adaptiveness?
This book is the standard work on the subject of practical and decorative knots and ropework.
Here is a much needed study of war as a social phenomenon, written by an expert on Greek fortifications and siege warfare.
"If there is reincarnation, I'm selfish enough to wish that next time around John Gould would come back as a writer again." —Mark Kramer in the Wall Street Journal
Inside the billion dollar breeding industry that rules racing today.
As a psychoanalyst, Alan Wheelis has helped many patients understand themselves and cope with the legacies of trauma or obsession that shape the neurotic personality. Here he uses his own life for the same process of discovery.