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Flanigan delivers for every homeowner detailed, expert guidance for designing each part of the house, from living rooms to closets, kitchens to baths. Flanigan looks at the home on a...

Known for their classic contemporary look, the AD100 interior design/architectural firm Ashe Leandro's debut publication is an inspiring look book of interiors they have created in syncopation with materials that...

A revealing, photographic portrait of 11-time world champion Slater, one of the greatest and most admired surfers in the world. Glaser's extensive archive of stunning images-a vast majority of which...

A celebration of the timeless beauty of soccer-its greatest and most stylish players, from past heroes to today's stars, along with its hallowed grounds. Football, or soccer as we know...

Celebrated for her "delightfully elegant, understated interiors" ( House Beautiful ), and her fusing of artisanal elements into a contemporary approach to spaces, Nicole Hollis's second book presents an inspirational...

Celebrate Bill Cunningham-the iconic New York Times photographer who chronicled society and fashion-with his images of the vibrant events of spring and summer. Bill Cunningham (1929-2016) embraced the colors, carefree...

This is the most comprehensive study of Old West art and antiques from the Golden State to date. Best quality furniture, gold and silver objects, gold quartz jewelry, gambling tools,...

Winner of the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award "Deeply researched and forcefully written . . . deftly explains the confused politics and diplomacy that bedeviled the war against...

An awe-inspiring journey into the world of proteins-how they shape life, and their remarkable potential to heal our bodies and our planet. Each fall, a robin begins the long trek...

Winner of the PROSE Award An NRC Handelsblad Best Book of the Year "Ambitious and impressive At a time when the very survival of both freedom and democracy seems uncertain,...

An Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal Winner A Progressive Book of the Year A TechCrunch Favorite Read of the Year "This subtle, important book forces rethinking not just about...

A young philosopher and Guinness World Record holder in pull-ups argues that the key to happiness is not goal-driven striving but forging a life that integrates self-possession, friendship, and engagement...

BOUNCING BACK ! is about rebounding from failure, loneliness, disappointment, disaster and grief. It's about discovering resilience we never knew we had. Andrew Matthews pinpoints the 7 critical things that...

Have a seat in the parlour and spend a rollicking evening with this elegant box of 50 Victorian-era entertainments. Have a seat in the parlour and spend a rollicking evening...

Volume 1 of the Cambridge World History is an introduction to both the discipline of world history and the earliest phases of world history up to 10,000 BCE. In Part...

The era from 1400 to 1800 saw intense biological, commercial, and cultural exchanges, and the creation of global connections on an unprecedented scale. Divided into two books, Volume 6 of...

Since 1750, the world has become ever more connected, with processes of production and destruction no longer limited by land- or water-based modes of transport and communication. Volume 7 of...

Volume 5 of the Cambridge World History series uncovers the cross-cultural exchange and conquest, and the accompanying growth of regional and trans-regional states, religions, and economic systems, during the period...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more . After the deaths of Antony...

"There is no better book on fascism's complex and vexed relationship with truth."-Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them In this short companion to...

From famously humble origins, Amazon has grown to become one of the most successful businesses in history. In its effort to provide its trademark fast and convenient "Prime" delivery, the...

Victor Hugo meets Papillon in this effervescent memoir of war, slavery, and self-discovery, told with aplomb and humor in its first English translation. A pioneering work of Ottoman Turkish literature,...

An evocative photographic portrait of country footy and the role it plays in connecting communities across Australia - the people, the players, the places, the competition, the colour, the camaraderie,...

"If anyone knows anything about the web, where it's been and where it's going, it's David Weinberger.... Too Big To Know is an optimistic, if not somewhat cautionary tale, of...

In Cosmic Numbers , mathematics professor James Stein traces the discovery, evolution, and interrelationships of the great numbers that define our world. Some numbers, like the speed of light and...

In any business the best projects come from referrals. So what if you had, at your fingertips, a fool-proof system for exploding your business by word of mouth? THE SEVEN...

The Cold War roots of liberalism's present crisis "[A] daring new book."-Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post "A fascinating and combative intellectual history."-Gideon Rachman, Financial Times By the middle of the twentieth...

A renowned scientist and environmental advocate looks back on a life that has straddled the worlds of science and politics "Compelling. . . . [Ehrlich's] memoir includes remarkable stories of...

A psychoanalyst's sensitive exploration of schizophrenia through the stories and words of three women patients In the spring of 1994, psychoanalyst-in-training Steven Poser arrived for his clinical internship at one...

A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud "A compellingly readable and intelligent book. . . . Both authors write with impressive energy."-Rowan...

The miraculous story of Madrid-how a village became a great world city For centuries Madrid was an insignificant settlement on the central Iberian plateau. Under its Muslim rulers the town...

A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacy "A lucid and persuasive reinterpretation. Readers won't see Cleopatra the same way...

A case for why regionalization, not globalization, has been the biggest economic trend of the past forty years The conventional wisdom about globalization is wrong. Over the past forty years...

The remarkable story of how a handful of intrepid scientific navigators underpinned British naval dominance in the conflict with Napoleon During the Napoleonic Wars, more than twice as many British...

A vivid history of the relationship between Britain and China, from 1600 to the present The relationship between Britain and China has shaped the modern world. Chinese art, philosophy and...

A beautifully curated and translated collection of the Qur'anic surahs and verses that are most cherished and memorized by Muslims the world over Muslim devotional practices vary greatly over time...

An investigation into the evolution of the seven-day week and how our attachment to its rhythms influences how we live "[Henkin] scours American literature, diaries, periodicals, menus and other ephemera...

A fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch "Fully succeeds in communicating that 'vivid presentness,' that 'joyful eagerness' for life, which is what keeps...

A major new examination of the Indian Ocean, revealing how the region has become a hotly contested geopolitical flashpoint Throughout history, the Indian Ocean has been an essential space for...

From an esteemed military historian, a sweeping history of the revolutions in war-fighting that have shaped the modern world Heraclitus wrote that "war is the father of all," and it...

A lively new history of London told through twenty-five buildings, from iconic Georgian townhouses to the Shard A walk along any London street takes you past a wealth of seemingly...

A compelling, authoritative history of how women shaped the Reformations and transformed religious life across the globe The Reformations, both Protestant and Catholic, have long been told as stories of...

An engaging, accessible introduction to war, from ancient times to the present and into the future "Forty short chapters . . . describe war from the ancient world to the...

Women are an essential part of the history of the piano-but how many women pianists can you name? Throughout most of the piano's history, women pianists lacked access to formal...

A gripping account of the Knights Templar, challenging received wisdom to show how these devout medieval knights played a profound role in making modern Britain The Knights Templar have an...

A sweeping new history that reveals how British, African, and American merchants developed the transatlantic slave trade "This is a landmark study given its clear status as easily the best...

An elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why it continues to resonate Why does Surrealism continue to fascinate us a century after Andre Breton's Manifesto...

A pioneering history of cross-cultural knowledge that exposes enduring fractures in unity across the world's largest continent The nineteenth century saw European empires build vast transport networks to maximize their...