Interpreting the Nazi era using the basic diagnostic tools provided by the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle, Judaeo-Christian culture, and contemporary German-language writers, this book provides an alternative approach to the topic of the individual German's entanglement with the Hitler regime.

Of the thousands packed in trains and transported from Viseu to Auschwitz, just a small group survived to see liberation. Among the survivors were Tessler, his father, and two of his brothers. This is the amazing story of their experiences as Hasidic Jews caught in the chaos and terror of the Holocaust.

In Little Helpers, historian John Robert Greene provokes us to rethink the scandals of Harry Truman’s presidency by providing the first political biography of the man who precipitated them, Gen. Harry H. Vaughan. Vaughan brought a number of disreputable figures into the White House in addition to committing plenty of misconduct on his own.

Mark Twain once claimed that he could read human character as well as he could read the Mississippi River, and he studied his fellow humans with the same devoted attention. In both his fiction and his nonfiction, he was disposed to dramatise how the human creature acts in a given environment - and to understand why.

Mark Twain’s comments on a wide range of topics continue to be accurate, valid, and frequently amusing and his opinions on the medical field are no exception. While Twain's works are rich in medical imagery and medical themes derived from his personal experiences, his interactions with the medical profession and his comments about health, illness, and physicians have largely been overlooked.