European Identity

Mickey and friends star in this adaptation of Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper. During a chance encounter, a prince discovers he looks just like someone else—a poor and hungry subject named Mickey. When the prince asks Mickey to switch places with him for the day, each learns what it is like to walk in the other’s shoes.

When European missionaries first arrived in India in the sixteenth century, they entered a world both fascinating and bewildering. Hinduism, as they saw it, was a pagan mess: the worship of devils and monsters by a people who burned women alive, performed outlandish rites and fed children to...

"Wonderfully ingenious and altogether satisfying."---Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review Just after midnight on December 23, 1980, a night flight bound for Paris plummets toward the Swiss Alps, crashing into a snowy mountainside. Within seconds flames engulf the plane, which is filled...

An unprecedented examination of the ways in which the uninhibited urban sexuality, sexual experimentation, and medical advances of pre-Weimar Berlin created and molded our modern understanding of sexual orientation and gay identity. Known already in the 1850s for the friendly company of its...

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award in Modern Jewish Thought and Experience From esteemed journalist Joshua Leifer, a definitive look at the history and future of American Jewish identity and community from the tipping point we are living in. Tablets Shattered is Joshua Leifer’s lively...

A witty, inspiring reckoning with the ancient Greek and Roman myths and their legacy, from what they can illuminate about #MeToo to the radical imagery of Beyoncé. The picture of classical antiquity most of us learned in school is framed in certain ways -- glossing over misogyny while omitting...

On the banks of the River Mersey is a city with a radical character, shaped by its geography and the achievements of its community - in music, culture and politics. Liverpool is now defined mostly by its appetite for football and the continental successes of its most renowned club. What then does it mean to be a local 'Red' - sculpted by the city's social history - in an age of global expansion? Former players, dedicated fans and civic leaders explain the relationship between the club they support and the city of their birth, exploring the events and moments in time that moulded their ...

A spy who hasn’t yet admitted she’s a spy turns her fiancé’s life upside down with the truth in this thrilling, steamy romance. Love is always risky—but loving her could be downright hazardous. Vivian Flint knows danger. Intrigue and combat are all in a day’s work for a spy. Her alias...

Eliza Bennett, a textile researcher, receives a mysterious invitation to a masquerade ball in Venice. A murder occurs at the ball, and Eliza becomes entangled in a web of intrigue involving her talking cat named Merlin, cryptic notes, and a dangerous secret admirer. The investigation leads to the discovery of her father's hidden past and a valuable artifact, resulting in a thrilling chase through Venice and a dramatic climax involving a collapsing building and a whole lot of water! Once again you will relish in Merlin's arcane observations on life in this fun tale.

In this incisive blend of personal narrative and philosophical inquiry, journalist and activist Barrett Holmes Pitner seeks a new way to talk about racism in America. Can new language reshape our understanding of the past and expand the possibilities of the future? The Crime Without a Name...

In Legacy of the Battlefield, Author Terry Sloan delivers a powerful and engaging account of one of Eastern Europe’s most pivotal military confrontations—the Battle of Poltava in 1709—and its enduring impact on Russian national identity. This landmark clash between Peter the Great’s Russian forces and the Swedish army under Charles XII was more than just a turning point in the Great Northern War. It marked the emergence of Russia as a dominant European power and laid the ideological groundwork for centuries of imperial ambition, cultural transformation, and state-building. Through ...