Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that...
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Romanovs—a magisterial world history unlike any other that tells the story of humanity through the one thing we all have in common: families
Around 950,000 years ago, a family of five walked along...
Originally an influential memo Vogler wrote for Walt Disney Animation executives regarding The Lion King, The Writer's Journey details a twelve-stage, myth-inspired method that has galvanized Hollywood's treatment of cinematic storytelling. A format...
To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic novel by Harper Lee, first published in 1960. Set in the racially divided Southern United States during the 1930s, the story follows young Scout Finch and her brother Jem as they witness their father, lawyer...
In his book Towards the Spiritual Convergence of America and Russia an independent American scholar Stephen Lapeyrouse explores spiritual connections between two countries on the example of such kindred philosophical movements as American...
Cases of sexual violence against men have been documented in a great number of conflicts and wars, both ancient and contemporary. Despite this growing empirical evidence, there is still a dearth of analyses on this type of violence, which stands in...
The magnum opus from Alejandro Jodorowsky — director of The Holy Mountain, star of Jodorowsky’s Dune, spiritual guru behind Psychomagic and The Way of Tarot, innovator behind classic comics The Incal and Metabarons, and legend of...