This study addresses melancholia, examining the phenomenon in the context of art, literature, philosophy and the history of religion and culture, as well as psychoanalysis. It describes the depressive as one who perceives the sense of self as a crucial pursuit which is almost unobtainable.

The Black Death of the 14th century was the most terrible and notorious killer of its time. This book explain why the Black Death couldn't possibly have been bubonic plague.

Tells of the author's journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning on Boston's subway, this work depicts a voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts to the arid plateau of Argentina's most southerly tip, via pretty Central American towns and the ancient Incan city of Macchu Pichu.

This is the final text volume of Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy , containing The Third Partition , The Table and an index of persons. Burton anatomizes love melancholy, its kinds, causes, symptoms and cures, and the causes of true religious melancholy.

Presents an introduction to Argentina's history, culture, and society. This book covers the Spanish colonial regime; the years of nation-building following Argentina's independence from Spain in 1810; and the sweeping progress of economic growth and cultural change that made Argentina one of the modern country in Latin America.

Granted unprecedented access for an American journalist, the author spent 8 months travelling through Cuba, from coastal cities to mountain villages, from the Bay of Pigs to both sides of the fence at Guantanamo, mixing with literati and black marketers, cane cutters and cigar rollers. He offers an account of life in Castro's Cuba.