History & Literature

Freemasons do keep some secrets, but none of them are as scandalous or conspiracy-laden as the rest of us might suspect. 

From: Meteoritics & Planetary Science

From: The American Journal of Physical Anthropology

From: BioEssays

Wiley is pleased to announce the publication of a comprehensive resource covering the highly diverse field of applied linguistics.

New Book Unravels the Truth behind How China’s Media Dictates Public Opinion of the Country’s 1.3 Billion People

Shakespeare - a great Stratford playwright or an uneducated man trapped into a loveless marriage by an older woman?  What do you think?

Research into the scientific crimes committed during the Nazi era has traditionally focused on the perpetrators. A new paper in Clinical Anatomy turns the attention towards the victims by investigating the names Hermann Stieve, chairman of the anatomical department at the University of Berlin, listed after using their bodies for his research. The published list of names, biographical data and nationalities reveals the backgrounds of an array of prisoners, the majority of whom were executed for political reasons before taking their place in one of the darkest chapters of scientific history.

Ever wondered why crime fiction is so popular?
The reason is elementary....

There is No Us and Them
New book differentiates between the stereotype and the reality of East-West relations

Edited by William Irwin Ear-splittingly loud, for some, musically-challenging and with lyrics that speak of apocalypse, death and destruction, listening to Black Sabbath is not for everyone. In fact, some would tell you that the band worship Satan, their songs promote violence and even try to convince teenagers to commit suicide.

It sounds like an artifact from an Indiana Jones film; a 1,000 year-old ancient Buddhist statue which was first recovered by a Nazi expedition in 1938 has been analysed by scientists and has been found to be carved from a meteorite. The findings, published in Meteoritics and Planetary Science, reveal the priceless statue to be a rare ataxite class of meteorite.

In an election year where the economy is king, along with a head-to-head matchup for the presidential race, timing could not be better for an insiders’ guide to Washington, D.C.

Ancient manuscripts written by Arabic scholars can provide valuable meteorological information to help modern scientists reconstruct the climate of the past, a new study has revealed. The research, published in Weather, analyses the writings of scholars, historians and diarists in Iraq during the Islamic Golden Age between 816-1009 AD for evidence of abnormal weather patterns.

This April 14 will be the 100th anniversary of the sinking. The Dummies series brings an informative guide that helps separate fact from fiction with facsimile reprints of original documents, engravings, articles, and manifests.

In conjunction with her speech at the November 4^th 2011 TEDx Peachtree Conference in Atlanta, Georgia - Sarah Miller Caldicott will discuss her newly released e-book, Inventing the Future: What Would Thomas Edison Be Doing Today?

A specially commissioned set of essays, published in the September 2011 issue of the Geographical Journal, argues that in the years following the 9/11 terrorist attacks the world did change, but not always in ways anticipated by policy-makers and pundits.

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