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Huhtikuussa 1900 Nokian Pitkäniemen mielisairaalaan tuotiin potilaaksi alakuloisuudesta, hallusinaatioista ja pakonomaisista seksuaalisista haluista kärsinyt nuorukainen, Maurits, joka kuvitteli, että hänen päässään eli hämähäkki. Diagnoosiksi annettiin nykyistä skitsofreniaa...

Hulluuden mahdollisuus kulkee mukanamme kuin varjo. Hulluus kytkeytyy paitsi ihmisen mieleen ja kehoon myös ympäröivään yhteiskuntaan ja kulttuuriin. Hulluuden historia selvittää, miten hulluus on eri aikoina koettu, miten sitä on länsimaisessa kulttuurissa selitetty ja miten hulluja on...

Lohikäärmeitä, jättiläisiä, seireenejä ja meripetoja - kuvastoa keskiajasta on vaikea mieltää ilman kammottavia hirviöitä. Silti todellisen keskiajan hirviöt olivat taruakin ihmeellisempiä. Sydän- ja myöhäiskeskiajan läntisessä Euroopassa hirviöt olivat olennainen osa...

1800-luvun alussa valtaosalla väestöstä oli korkeintaan virsikirja tai katekismus piirongin laatikossa. Kirjojen ympärille alkoi kuitenkin jo muodostua verkostoja, ja pientä mutta innokasta lukijoiden joukkoa kirjat liikuttivat, valvottivat ja toivat yhteen. Kirjojen kaipuu esittelee...

Jo muinaiset sumerilaiset... pelasivat lautapelejä! Siitä lähtien nappuloita onkin siirrelty pelilaudoilla kutakuinkin kaikissa inhimillisissä kulttuureissa. Tällä hetkellä uusia lautapelejä ilmestyy vuosittain lähes 3 500. Lautapelien historia etsii vastauksia siihen, minkälaisia...

Orjakauppa Afrikan ja Amerikan mantereen välillä sai uuden ajan edetessä valtavat mittasuhteet ja päättyi veristen yhteenottojen jälkeen vasta 1800-luvun lopulla. Se ehti tuona aikana vaikuttaa miljoonien ihmisten elämään ja muovata nykyisen maailmantalouden rakenteita. Kahlitut kertoo...

Westwater Lost and Found: Expanded Edition is the continuing story of Westwater—a relatively short, deep canyon near the Utah-Colorado state line that has become one of the most popular river-running destinations in the Southwest—and its lasting significance to the study of the Upper...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Thursday, August 4, 1892. It is already warm in Fall River, Massachusetts, when a maid resting in her attic room hears the City Hall bell strike eleven. A few minutes later a voice calls up the stairwell: "Maggie, come down!" Downstairs in the sitting...

This audiobook dives into the historical, philosophical, sociological, and psychological forces that gave birth to the American constitutional republic. The book introduces the concept of “Our Freedom Charters,” which includes the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, the Bill...

Brought to you by Penguin. Many of us think we know the American South. We can rattle off a list of signifiers: the Civil War, Gone with the Wind, the Ku Klux Klan, plantations, football, Jim Crow, slavery. But the idiosyncrasies, dispositions, and habits of the region are stranger and more...

In The OSS: America’s First Spy Agency, acclaimed historian Cyril Marlen peels back the curtain on the secret missions, eccentric characters, and dangerous innovations that defined the OSS’s short but seismic existence. From hidden radios tucked into shaving kits to jungle warfare in Burma, from psychological propaganda campaigns to midnight parachute drops into Nazi territory, this is the untold story of America’s first experiment with shadow war—and the people bold enough to carry it out.

The Hobo: The Sociology of the Homeless Man is a book written by Nels Anderson, which provides a comprehensive sociological study of the homeless population in America during the early 20th century. The book explores the lives and experiences of "hobos"—a term used to describe homeless men who traveled from place to place in search of work—and sheds light on the social and economic factors that led to their homelessness.

An extraordinary account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination, from the author of Rubicon. “A galloping tour of Christianity’s influence across the last 2,000 years.” —New York Times Crucifixion, the Romans believed, was the worst fate imaginable, a punishment...

The Vietnam War cast a shadow over the American psyche from the moment it began. In its time it sparked budget deficits, campus protests, and an erosion of US influence around the world. Long after the last helicopter evacuated Saigon, Americans have continued to battle over whether it was ever a winnable war.

There is no single theory of what caused the Great Depression and never will be, Morris argues. Macreconomics is a social science, and such a massive event always takes its shape from a terrible confluence of factors. The mismanagement of the gold standard, the growth in consumer credit, the insistence on deflation, and the inability of the major European belligerents of World War I to agree on a reconstruction agenda are just a few of the shocks that pushed the world into an economic Armageddon.

If you want to discover the captivating history of the United States of America, then pay attention....

The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian. The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest...

For the captains of industry ? men like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, and Henry Ford ? the Gilded Age is a time of big money. Technology boomed with the invention of trains, telephones, electric lights, harvesters, vacuum cleaners, and more. But for millions of immigrant workers, it is a time of big struggles, with adults and children alike working 12 to 14 hours a day under extreme, dangerous conditions.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling biography of America’s founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey...

A special centennial edition of Miles Davis’s classic memoir Miles—the singular story of a jazz legend, now reintroduced by Nas and Hanif Abdurraqib. Universally acclaimed as a musical genius, Miles Davis was one of the most important and influential musicians in the world. Here, Miles...