Late medeival Sicily is shown to have been neither underdeveloped nor dependent on foreign trade.

This volume is a stimulating series of spiritual reflections which will prove helpful for all struggling to find the meaning of human existence and to live the

While shipwrecked on the island of Pala, Will Farnaby, a disenchanted journalist, discovers a utopian society that has flourished for the past 120 years. Althou

This meditative prose conveys the essence of the human place in the world -- past and present.