Before Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steve Reeves, or Charles Atlas, there was German-born Eugen Sandow (1867-1925), a muscular vaudeville strongman who used his good looks, intelligence, and business savvy to forge a fitness empire. This book features the story of this first showman to emphasize physique display rather than lifting prowess.

An anthropological analysis of Sarajevo and its cultural complexities that examines contemporary issues of social divisiveness, pluralism, and intergroup dynamics in the context of national identity and state formation.

An history of the South in the years leading up to and following the Civil War focusing on the women, black and white, rich and poor, who made up the fabric of southern life before the war and remade themselves and their world after it. It explores the experiences and actions of individual women in the changing South.