Activist and scholar Kitty Kelly Epstein tells the unique story of a city that recruits a progressive mayoral candidate, defeats a political machine, mobilizes a thousand residents to make policy, and then implements many of the policies created by this participatory process. Violence, jobs, educati[...]

Night eating syndrome is a newly identified eating disorder which describes behaviour patterns in which an individual obsessively consumes more than half of his or her daily caloric intake after eight oclock in the evening. In this book, readers first learn to identify the signs of NES, and then u[...]

Battles of the Medieval World introduces 20 key battles from Europe and the Near East in an age when traditional chivalric codes gave way to increased professionalism in armies. Beginning in 1066 with the battle of Hastings, where William of Normandy's cavalry defeated Harold's Saxon forces, and fin[...]

Vilken taktik låg bakom Vilhelm Erövrarens politiskt avgörande seger i slaget vid Hastings? Hur lyckades fransmännen ta sig in i det välbefästa Château Gaillard och göra slut på belägringen? Vilken betydelse fick segern i Konstantinopel 12031204 för Venedigs utveckling till stormakt? Hur [...]