A look at the healing properties of this mushroom, which is widely used in Oriental cuisine and has been used in traditional Chinese medicine as a treatment for colds, measles…

The shudder pulps published some of the grisliest, goriest, most outrageous mystery-terror fiction ever sold on the American newsstand, during the golden age of the pulp magazines. This volumes chronicles…

This book opens the doors to a social and cultural sphere beyond the limited world of the English-speaking elite and provides the basis for an understanding of religious controversy and…

Kenneth Jones looks at the numerous nineteenth-century movements for social and religious change - Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Zoroastrian - that used various forms of religious authority to legitimise…

How did a black sport, plagued by drug scandal and decimated by white flight, come to achieve such prominence? What are the subtle and not-so-subtle racial codes that define how…

This study represents a reflection on and celebration of the extensive musical achievements of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. The book describes selected works from all periods of Davies’s rich and…

Documents the work of one of Australia’s leading architects, Richard Francis-Jones.

This informative book is a compendium of detailed scientific research on thirty-four of the most popular dietary supplements used in North America and Europe. Its coverage of pharmacological studies on…