The year Rosemary makes her first true friend is also a year of great change for her and her entire community. Rumors have begun to spread through the serene farming village: tales of witchcraft and evil. To protect her family and her new friend, ...

Unifier or destroyer, law-maker or tyrant? China’s First Emperor (258-210 BC) has been the subject of debate for over 2,000 years. He gave us the name by which China is known in the West and, by his unification or elimination of six stat...

Contrary to an assumption basic to European and Chinese history—the tales of Marco Polo’s journey to China—Frances Wood argues that he not only never went to China, but probably never ventured past his family home on the Black S...