Civilization
The Sheikh's Batmobile
What happens to our pop culture when it meets another culture head-onâ”especially one that according to some is completely at odds with our own?
In The Sheikh's Batmobile, pop-cultural commentator Richard Poplak sets out on an unusual two-year odyssey. His mission is to see what becomes of his, and North America's, obsessionsâ”pop songs an …
Time Among the Maya
The Maya of Central America have been called the Greeks of the New World. In the first millennium ad, they created the most intellectually and artistically advanced civilization of the Americas. Throughout the ensuing centuries, as neighbouring empires fell in warfare and to the Spanish invasion, the Maya endured, shaken but never destroyed.
In Time …
Waiting for the Macaws
”Waiting for the Macaws is a haunting reminder of the scale and breadth of what can only be described as a catastrophe of the human spirit and imagination.“â”Wade Davis, author of Light at the Edge of the World and Explorer-in-Residence, National Geographic Society
Waiting for the Macaws is a haunting and beautifully written account of the …