Part mystery and part romance, The Legacy is a commentary on the legal profession as well as a vivid picture of a city that has always been divided between an elite upper class and waves of aspiring immigrants. While unraveling the puzzle of an oddly worded Last Will, Adam Chauncey and Sally Warren seek to uncover the secrets of the legacy left by an enigmatic Chicago financier. Their search for answers takes them from the elite mansions North of the city to the Latino neighborhoo...

Tales of Little Egypt is a fictional account of small town America and the peculiar, ordinary, eccentric, sturdy, cunning, and contented characters who created it. Set in the years between the Civil War and the great Influenza Plague of 1918, this is a pageant of imaginary people-the narratives of a score of men, women, and children whose lives illustrate the immense changes and challenges of that turbulent era. This was a period of great events and outsized personalities: splendi...

Mystery novelist Sidney Sinclair has run out of murders. With his sales falling and his next book long overdue, his agent suggests an unusual cure for writer's block: commit a crime of his own.At an estate sale, Sidney steals an antique clock-and discovers a faded map hidden inside it. Soon, he follows its clues to Antibes with his friend Callie McCann while writing a new case for his fictional detective, Noah Blake. But as the events in Sidney's manuscript begin to echo those arou...

The only available historical dictionary devoted exclusively to the 1940s, this book offers readers a ready-reference portrait of one of the twentieth century's most tumultuous decades. In nearly 600 concise entries, the volume quickly defines a historical figure, institution, or event, and then points readers to three sources that treat the subject in depth. In selecting topics for inclusion, the editors and authors offer a representative slice of life as contemporaneous Americans saw it ...

In World War I and the Origins of U.S. Military Intelligence, military historian James L. Gilbert provides an authoritative overview of the birth of modern Army intelligence. Following the natural division of the intelligence war, which was fought on both the home front and overseas, Gilbert traces the development and use of intelligence and counterintelligence through the eyes of their principal architects: General Dennis E. Nolan and Colonel Ralph Van Deman.Gilbert explores how o...

This anthology of essays questions many widespread assumptions about the culture of postwar America. Illuminating the origins and development of the many threads that constituted American culture during the Cold War, the contributors challenge the existence of a monolithic culture during the 1950s and thereafter. They demonstrate instead that there was more to American society than conformity, political conservatism, consumerism, and middle-class values.By examining popular culture...

In 'The Mythology of Mayas, Aztecs and Incas', Lewis Spence delves into the rich mythological traditions of three ancient civilizations - the Mayas, the Aztecs, and the Incas. Through meticulous research and expert storytelling, Spence presents a comprehensive account of the beliefs, deities, and rituals that shaped the worldview of these civilizations. His scholarly approach provides a thorough analysis of the cultural significance of myths, offering insights into the spiritual and societ...

The gods and legends of the Aztec and Inca worlds, told from the Spanish chronicles and the surviving codices: the feathered serpent, the sun temples, the accounts the conquerors wrote down of what they were destroying. Spence produced a shelf of such books and this is among the most used. Its 64 original illustrations have been carefully restored and coloured for this edition.

The Myths of Mexico & Peru offers a comparative survey of the sacred narratives, cosmologies, divine figures, and ritual traditions of the great Indigenous civilizations of Mesoamerica and the Andes. Lewis Spence draws on chronicles, codices, archaeological reports, and early ethnographic materials to reconstruct mythic worlds shaped by creation cycles, solar worship, hero legends, and sacrificial rites. Written in the lucid, synthetic style characteristic of early twentieth-century mythog...

The Indians manifest their poetry in their huge temples; the Persians in their holy books; the Egyptian in pyramids, obelisks and the like; the Hellene in their magnificent statues; the Romans in their enchanting pictures; the Germans in their beautiful music—but the Slavs have poured out their soul and their intimate thoughts in ballads and tales.Herein are 33 Serbian superstitions and national customs, 12 legends of Prince Marko, a Serbian national hero, the epic poem of the hero...

The British Secret Service, working to uncover a large-scale blackmail ring and catch its mysterious mastermind, 'The Spider', find themselves at the country residence Feltham Abbey where a fancy-dress ball is in full swing. In the tumult of revelry, Sir Ralph Feltham is found dead. Not the atmosphere bewildered guest Tony was expecting, he sets out make sense of the night's activities and the motives of the other guests. Among them is Hilary, an independently minded socialite still in her...

This book advances current literature on the role and place of animals in sport and society. It explores different forms of sporting spaces, examines how figures of animals have been used to racialize the human athlete, and encourages the reader to think critically about animal ethics, animals in space, time and place, and the human-animal relationship. The chapters highlight persistent dichotomies in the use of and collaboration with animals for sport, and present strategies for moving fo...