Containing analyses of everything from prisoner poetry to album covers, Belomor: Criminality and Creativity in Stalin’s Gulag moves beyond the simplistic good/evil paradigm that often accompanies Gulag scholarship. While acknowledging the...
A new edited translation of the Soviet Staff study of the Red Army’s Belorussian operation in the summer of 1944, which was unprecedented in terms of its scale, scope and strategic consequences.
The Soviet Stavka had planned a campaign consisting...
Als Bestiarien werden Textsammlungen des Mittelalters bezeichnet, in denen verschiedene Tierarten in ihren Eigenschaften beschrieben werden. Aus der Sicht mittelalterlich-christlicher Naturdeutung ist zoologische Verhaltensforschung immer auch...
Berlin was the city at the very center of World War Two. It was the launching pad for Hitler’s empire, the embodiment of his vision of a “world metropolis.” Berlin was also the place where Hitler’s Reich would ultimately fall. Berlin...
The brilliance of Bertrand Russell needs no introduction, for he is one of the greatest philosophers, scientists and social critics of our time. The contents of this book, however, are of particular significance, for here we see Lord Russell’s...
Most people believe that they were either benefited or at least not harmed by being brought into existence. Thus, if they ever do reflect on whether they should bring others into existence---rather than having children without even thinking about...
When a chimpanzee stockpiles rocks as weapons or when a frog sends out mating calls, we might easily assume these animals know their own motivations--that they use the same psychological mechanisms that we do. But as Beyond the Brain indicates, this...