Surveys centuries of folklore about vampires and offers a scientific explanation for the origins of the legends.

The alphabet of the trees is fading in the song of the leaves' Selected poems by the great American imagist poet.

My daddy died when I was (one...two...) three years old. Today we are out in the garden. It always makes me think about my daddy because he LOVED his garden. So

For thousands of years, Pacific Northwest Indians fished, bartered, socialized, and honored their ancestors at Celilo Falls, part of a nine-mile stretch of the

From 1941-1944 Leningrad saw by far the largest-scale famine ever to occur in a developed society. This book examines the nature and consequences of the extreme