Caught up in the costly Napoleonic wars, Austria went into sovereign default in 1811. Five years later, the public authorities founded a national bank to be financed and run by private shareholders, the idea being that an independent bank would help...

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Written between 1954 and 1957 and treating events from the Stalinist era of Czechoslovakia's postwar Communist regime, "Midway on Our Life's Journey" flew in the face of the reigning aesth...

With its breathtaking vistas and countless acres of unmarked wilderness, Alaska has long attracted those who are looking for a bit of adventure in their vacations – from visitors who want to climb rugged peaks to those content to push a stroller down...

A compelling study of unofficial postwar Soviet art, "The Experimental Group" takes as its point of departure a subject of strange fascination: the life and work of renowned professional illustrator and conceptual artist Ilya Kabakov. Kabakov's art –...

One day in 1938, John Dewey addressed a room of professional educators and urged them to take up the task of "finding out just what education is". Reading this lecture in the late 1940s, Philip W. Jackson took Dewey's charge to heart and spent the ne...

The term "network" is now applied to everything from the Internet to terrorist-cell systems. But the word's ubiquity has also made it a cliche, a concept at once recognizable yet hard to explain".Network Aesthetics", in exploring how popular culture...

Ray and Barbara Bane worked as teachers in Barrow and Wainwright, Alaska, in the early 1960s – but they didn't simply teach the children of their Ia±upiat Eskimo and Koyukon friends and neighbors: they fully embraced their lifestyle. Doing so, they r...

"North in the World" presents 121 poems by Rolf Jacobsen (1907-1994), one of Norway's greatest modern poets. Garnering the highest praise of critics, Jacobsen won many of Norway's and Sweden's most prestigious literary awards, including the Swedish A...

Getting other people to do what we want is a useful skill for anyone. Whether you're seeking a job, negotiating a deal, or angling for that big promotion, you're engaged in strategic thought and action. In such moments, you imagine what might be goin...

In early January 1904, a reporter from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch traveled to Oklahoma City to meet with a washed-up relic of the "Wild West: Edward Capehart O'Kelley". On the dusty streets of the former Indian Territory, O'Kelley struggled to stay...