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The very name, Napoleon Bonaparte, still enthralls. Ever since this towering and terrible genius conquered Europe, he has been endlessly debated, compared, and made an icon. In "Napoleon," the great...

Love Green focuses on the importance of appreciating nature, and being grateful but also fostering curiosity and taking active responsibility for the world around us and the environment. Practical and...

This dictionary serves as a first point of reference for all aspects of political, diplomatic, military, social and economic history, and provides overviews of the cultural and artistic developments of...

A fuss-free, downright delicious collection of recipes for pies, cookies, brownies, cakes, and more-from "pastry queen" (Bon Appetit) Nicole Rucker, chef/owner of Los Angeles's Fat + Flour ONE OF THE...

Make great cocktails, super simply, with this collection of quick, easy, and creative two-ingredient cocktails that you'll be mixing again and again. Make great cocktails, super simply, with this collection...

The beloved blogger and author of The Pretty Dish makes meal prep easy with 100 recipes that offer what we all want: more time to enjoy a delicious meal with...

A holistic approach to creating a home using the colors, patterns, and textures found in the natural world, from the author of Living with Color and Living with Pattern. A...

The instant New York Times bestseller 2025 James Beard Foundation Award Nominee Named a Best Cookbook of 2024 by NPR, VegNews, and The Portland Press Herald A groundbreaking and comprehensive...

A gripping story of triumph over tragedy from the author of A Woman of Substance Mallory Keswick is a woman with the world at her feet. Then out of the...

Felicito Yanaque has raised himself from poverty to ownership of a trucking business. His two sons work for him. He receives a threatening letter demanding protection money. The police don't...

A reworking of Moliere's comic play. Alceste abhors hypocrisy and the well-rehearsed, sycophantic pleasantries of the chattering classes. He tells the truth, even it hurts. Alceste is in love with...

The book titled The Missionary & the Libertine by the author Ian Buruma. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Herbert von Karajan, the conductor, died in 1989 at the age of 81. His career was one of the most controversial in the history of classical music; he was dogged...

The English tenor, Peter Pears, made a unique contribution to British musical life, not only through his own singing, but as the inspiration and muse of his life-long companion Benjamin...

No composer has had a greater influence on the music of the twentieth century than Gustav Mahler. And in Mahler Remembered, Norman Lebrecht, an acknowledged authority on the life and...

Eric Gill was a typographer and lettercutter whose typefaces still feature in our lives, especially his Perpetua and Gill Sans. He was also a sculptor and wood-engraver. He was a...

The book titled Faber Book of Political Verse by the author Tom Paulin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Who is Geronimo Stilton?That's me! I run a newspaper, but my true passion is writing tales of adventure. Here in New Mouse City, the capital of Mouse Island, my books...

Who is Geronimo Stilton?That's me! I run a newspaper, but my true passion is writing tales of adventure. Here in New Mouse City, the capital of Mouse Island, my books...

Calling all chocolate lovers! It's the bake book you've been waiting for, with over 100 rich, delicious, yet accessible recipes for baking with chocolate all day long. Calling all chocolate...

The definitive biography of Australia's twenty-first prime minister, Gough Whitlam, who swept to power in 1972, ending twenty-three years of conservative rule. His reform agenda modernised Australia and was ended...

The term Latin America refers to the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking states created in the early 1820s following the wars of independence, states that differed enormously in geographical and demographical scale,...

We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food dollars. In this engrossing expose, Marion Nestle goes behind the scenes to reveal how the...

This biography of composer Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) describes with unprecedented intimacy, affection, and respect the life of one of France's greatest artists. After long being regarded as an oddity and...

Chanel's combination of tradition, originality and style has always made it the most seductive of brands. Here the House of Chanel opens its private archives, revealing a galaxy of brilliant...

The best new houses from Mexico, currently the exciting epicentre of the architecture scene fuelled by brilliant young practices, a booming economy and a liberal sprinkling of concrete, with stunning...

One of the most thought-provoking and influential designers in the world - she once declared 'the only reason I'm in fashion is to destroy the word "conformity"' - Vivienne Westwood...

Critical acclaim for William B. Breuer "A first-class historian." --The Wall Street Journal Vendetta! "A wealth of insights."--Los Angeles Times Book Review Unexplained Mysteries of World War II "Anyone interested...

This comprehensive anthology of newly translated writings presents some of Aron's most important essays in 20th-century intellectual history and political commentary.. In this collection of essays written over a period...

Ireland's greatest and most influential poet: Yeats's poems express both powerful personal feelings and something of the whole human dilemma of the 20th century.

A collection of Anthony Powell's best critical writing over a period of four decades, drawn from his regular reviews for the "Daily Telegraph", occasional humorous pieces for "Punch" and more...

A comprehensive reference guide, this volume examines the leading political, economic, cultural, military, scientific and sporting personalities of Russia and the Soviet Union from 1900 to 1996. The book presents...

Robert Craft worked alongside Stravinsky during the last 23 years of the composer's life, collaborating with him in writing books and conducting his music. Now he has taken a further...

The book titled Napa by the author James Conaway. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

After two years as a postgraduate student at Nanjing University in China, Vikram Seth hitch-hiked back to his home in New Delhi, via Tibet. From Heaven Lake is the story...

A devastating vision of the Holocaust and the unfillable emptiness it left in the lives of those who passed through it. "From the Trade Paperback edition."

The book titled Bernard Shaw: 1856-1898: The Search for Love by the author Michael Holroyd. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

"Bruno Schulz was one of the great writers....[His] verbal art strikes usstuns, evenwith its overload of beauty."John Updike Exactly sixty years after his death, Bruno Schulz (1892-1942) remains one of...

This tale of obsessive love focuses on the intimate correspondence between a writer and a woman he has met just once. As their letters grow increasingly erotic, they begin their...

A moving testament to one of the literary world's most celebrated marriages: that of the greatest playwright of our age, Harold Pinter, and the beautiful and famous prize-winning biographer Antonia...

The book titled In the Land of Pain by the author Alphonse Daudet. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Death in the Andes by the author Mario Vargas Llosa. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The City of Florence: Historical Vistas and Personal Sightings by the author Professor R W B Lewis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

A heroic, brilliantly detailed portrait of the biographer as artist. James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is the most celebrated of all biographies, acknowledged as one of the greatest and...

Playwright, politician, publisher, entrepreneur, spy, and rebel: few men of eighteenth-century letters led a more varied or controversial life than Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. From humble beginnings as a watchmaker...

Space adventure at its finest - Prime Deceptions is the outrageously fun sequel to Valerie Valdes' debut Chilling Effect , featuring the further adventures of Captain Eva Innocente and her...