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Barry Stone, author of 1001 Walks You Must Experience Before You Die , delves into some of the lesser-known aspects of the world's most famous - and not-quite- famous-yet -...

Ann Cleeves Classic Crime - engaging mysteries to savour, beloved characters to meet again A Prey to Murder is the fourth mystery novel featuring George and Molly Palmer-Jones by Ann...

The book titled Phaethon's Children: The Este Court and Its Culture in Early Modern by the author Dennis Looney. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

Buddhists across Asia have often aspired to die with a clear and focused mind, as the historical Buddha himself is said to have done. This book explores how the ideal...

What if historical fiction were understood as a disfiguring of calculus? Or poems enacting the formation and breakdown of community as expositions of irrational numbers? What if, in other words,...

The book is a study of the literature and visual arts concerned with the many and diverse forms of slaveries produced by globalisation in Britain since the early 1990s.Starting from...

The politics of war reporting: Authority, authenticity and morality challenges the assumptions that reporters and their audiences have about the way the journalistic trade operates and how it sees the...

A comprehensive look at the thought-provoking, eye-catching and mind-expanding work of this visionary West Coast artist.

Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did Samuel Pepys never give his mistresses an orgasm? Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? When were...

The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music provides a fascinating examination of the repertoire, institutions, performers, composers, and social and cultural world which created one of the most crucial and vibrant...

Young Corban watches enviously as boys become warriors, learning the art of war. He yearns to wield his sword and spear to protect his king's realm. But that day will...

Writings by Thomas Hirschhorn, collected for the first time, trace the development of the artist's ideas and artistic strategies. For the artist Thomas Hirschhorn, writing is a crucial tool at...

Among hundreds of thousands of ancient graves and tombs excavated to date in China, the Mancheng site stands out for its unparalleled complexity and richness. It features juxtaposed burials of...

Latin America has been central to the main debates on development economics, ranging from the relationships between income inequality and economic growth, and the importance of geography versus institutions in...

This pioneering work introduces and presents the first full publication of the text of an unusual fourteenth-century Bulgarian gospel manuscript known as the Curzon Gospel. Volume I is an annotated...

This is a seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, which tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic...

A masterwork of historical fiction and intellectual suspense, The Name of the Rose chronicles a series of mysterious deaths at a wealthy Italian abbey in the year 1327, as the...