Michael Kerrigan

Presents a guide to the world of the ancient Mesopotamians with accounts of their rulers, conquests, laws, maps, and religious beliefs.

Presents a guide to the world of ancient Rome with inscriptions from the early days of the Republic through the last days of a crumbling empire.

Explores the cases of over one hundred notorious crimes and criminals from world history, covering bandits, arsonists, hucksters, white collar criminals, organized crime, kidnappers, extortionists, and murderers.

Of all the peoples who fought for supremacy on the vast eastern European plain, the Slavs have proved the most enduring. They spread out from homelands beyond the Carpathian Mountains, settling territory south into the Balkans and as far west as the Elbe River. Equally impressive is their spiritual journey which began with the worship of ancient pagan gods and matured with the dawn of the Christian age. Tales from this volume include the vampire whose...

This book is filled with the strange stories, mystic rites, angry gods, vision quests and magic symbols of of people who live in the Far North or Arctic Regions.

A dramatic series that captures, culture by culture, the information that never makes it into the history books: strange stories, mystic rites, angry gods, vision quests.