Uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. Although sixteenth-century Europeans began to view mass festivities as foreign and 'savage', the author shows that they were indigenous to the West, from the ancient Greek's worship of Dionysus to the medieval practices of Christianity as a 'danced religion'.
Denounces the twenty-first-century's first political decade as the cruelest in memory, in a report that analyzes such modern challenges as political and corporate corruption, the widening economic gap, and a rise in extreme conservatism.
La réponse scientifique au problème des femmes telle qu'elle a été élaborée au siècle dernier par une nouvelle classe d'experts médecins, psychologues, spécialistes en économie domestique et en éducation des enfants. Ensemble, ils prétendirent résoudre l'angoissante énigme de la véritable nature des femmes !