LAWRENCE DAVIDSON

The classic, bestselling textbook on the history of the Middle East by renowned scholar Arthur Goldschmidt, updated to reflect the latest scholarship and recent events in that turbulent region.

Explore the rollicking, rip-roaring era of pulp fiction. From its origins in the late nineteenth century, when adventure stories reigned, through almost six decades of slinking sleuths, galloping ghouls, nitty-gritty gals, and invincible warriors, the pulp magazines transported readers into new territories of the mind. Not only did these publications help popularize authors such as Dashiell Hammett, Ray Bradbury, and Edgar Rice Burroughs, they now provide a panorama of some sixty years of illustrationand social commentary.