From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, 'animal spirits' are driving financial events worldwide. This book aims to challenge the economic wisdom that got us into this mess, and puts forward a fresh vision that can transform economics and restore prosperity.

Known as Hollywood's 'Boy Wonder', Irving Thalberg created classics such as Ben-Hur , Tarzan the Ape Man , Grand Hotel , Freaks , Mutiny on the Bounty , and The Good Earth , but died tragically at thirty-seven. This work uses production files, financial records, and correspondence to confirm the genius of Thalberg's methods.

An anthropological examination of how Muslims are responding to the conditions of life in France. It examines how French Muslims are fashioning various Islamic institutions and developing different ways of reasoning and teaching.

Looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. This title traces the important role that forgetting has played throughout human history, from the ability to make sound decisions unencumbered by the past to the possibility of second chances.

Explores the interplay between art and cuisine during the Italian Renaissance. This book considers the many, often surprising, ways that cooks and artists converged and drew from each other's worlds. It also considers the significance of culinary images in Renaissance art.

The National Mall in Washington, DC, is 'a great public space, as essential a part of the American landscape as the Grand Canyon', according to architecture critic Paul Goldberger. This book tells the Mall's story - its historic plan, the structures that populate its corridors, and the sea change it reveals regarding national representation.

Before the advent of cable and its hundreds of channels, before iPods and the Internet, three television networks ruled America's evenings. And for years, Ed Sullivan, the Broadway gossip columnist turned awkward emcee, ruled Sunday nights. This book tells the saga of The Ed Sullivan Show .

Since the Gold Rush, Bay Area Jews have countered stereotypes, working as farmers and miners, boxers and mountaineers. They were Gold Rush pioneers, Gilded Age tycoons, and Progressive Era reformers. Told through a range of characters and events, this book illuminates many aspects of Jewish life in the area.

Fiction has always been in a state of transformation and circulation: how does this history of mobility inform the emergence of the novel? This title explores the active movements of English and French fiction in the eighteenth century and argues that the new literary form of the novel was the result of a shift in translation.

In 1847, during the great age of the freak show, the British periodical Punch bemoaned the public's 'prevailing taste for deformity'. This work argues that far from being purely exploitative, displays of anomalous bodies served a deeper social purpose as they generated popular and scientific debates over the meanings attached to bodily difference.

Longtime admirers of Mark Twain are aware of how integral animals were to his work as a writer, from his first stories through his final years, including many pieces that were left unpublished at his death. This book gathers writings from the full span of Mark Twain's career and elucidates his special attachment to and regard for animals.

Eight Centuries of Financial Folly. Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing and recovering their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed, 'this time is different' - claiming that the old rules of valuation no longer apply and that the new situation bears little similarity to past disasters. This ...

How well integrated were Jews in the Mediterranean society controlled by ancient Rome? This title offers a comprehensive exploration of Jewish social integration in the Roman world, one that poses challenging questions about the very nature of Mediterranean culture.

A photographic guide to the birds of eastern North America. It presents key identification features of each bird. It covers entire eastern half of mainland North America and the arctic and subarctic territorial islands of the US and Canada.

Charles Darwin's Origin of Species is one of the most widely cited books in modern science. Yet tackling this classic can be daunting for students and general readers alike because of Darwin's Victorian prose and the complexity and scope of his ideas. This title is suitable for those seeking to understand Darwin's Origin of Species .

While classicists have long recognized that the Roman Republic changed and evolved over time, the author mounts a serious argument against the idea of republican continuity that has been fundamental to modern historical study.

A photographic guide to the birds of western North America. It covers entire western half of mainland North America (excluding Mexico) and the arctic and subarctic territorial islands of the US and Canada (excluding Hawaii). It describes key identification features of each bird.

Traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood organizations active in the world. This book shows how the UN's creators envisioned a world organization that would protect the interests of empire.

Challenging Rawlsian approaches to health policy, the author develops an account of just health that is sensitive to considerations of luck and personal responsibility, arguing that people's health and the health care they receive are just only when society works to neutralize the effects of bad luck.

A biography of Mithradates, the ruthless king and visionary rebel who challenged the power of Rome in the first century BC.