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The series, devoted to "Adventure Classics", features best selling travel literature, the famous books that have sparked our imagination. The events that have marked the history of archaeology, sailing, mountain...

Think of this tome as a global go-round of the world's most influential galleries: if it's hot in the art world today, it's in this book. Emerging artists are featured...

Filling notebook after notebook with sketches, inventions, and theories, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) not only stands as one of the most exceptional draftsmen of art history, but also as a...

TUSCANY--IS THERE ANY OTHER REGION IN THE WORLD WHOSE NAME CONJURES UP SUCH POWERFUL IMAGES AND EMOTIONS? FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NEVER HAD THE PLEASURE OF A TUSCAN SOJOURN, THE...

From the earliest years of the American republic, Paris has provoked an extraordinary American literary response. An almost inevitable destination for writers and thinkers, Paris has been many things to...

This Library of America volume contains one of the masterpieces of American naturalism and a major influence on generations of American novelists, James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan trilogy. Farrell follows...

'I can more or less guarantee that you know someone for whom this book will be important and inspiring. There's a very strong chance that person will be you.' Stephen...

'Razor sharp and startlingly original, The Cross Thieves crackles with street spirit. A big-hearted, unholy riot!' Bram Presser, author of the award-winning Book of Dirt . Two hungry boys set...

World War Bloody Timor gives a revealing insight into the extraordinary life of the everyday digger and service in a conflict that was far from ordinary. My name is Peter...

A terrible fate awaits humankind if the Inca Prophecy cannot be found . . . A terrible fate awaits humankind if the Inca Prophecy cannot be found . . ....

Amedeo ('Beloved of God') Modigliani was considered to be the quintessential bohemian artist, his legend almost as infamous as Van Gogh's. In Modigliani's time, his work was seen as an...

Romantic Prairie Style embraces simple pleasures, comfort and the long-cherished ideals of natural beauty, simplicity and harmony with the earth. It's a style that says 'home' wherever you may be...

Metternich was at the heart of Europe's diplomatic community and he paints revealing portraits of such key figures as Napoleon, Czar Alexander, Talleyrand and the Bourbons. He also reveals much...

Using Natural Finishes is now available under the new title Clay and lime renders, plasters and paints . With the increasing awareness of eco-building techniques alongside the desire to make...

This could be the most important book you will read this year. Well-known author, teacher, lecturer, and herbalist Stephen Harrod Buhner has produced a book that is certain to generate...

A true story of how a murderer and a serial rapist were put away by the work of a forensic scientist. There are many techniques that have been honed in...

'Tony Barnett is a masterly scientist and communicator. (The two don't always go together.) As a writer and broadcaster, he displays an encyclopedic range of knowledge--incisive, profound, often subversive--with astringent...

This is the story of rural Australians-their achievements, their setbacks and victories, the forces they must contend with and the rewards, so seldom material, for which they strive. It is...

This is a biography of Henrik Ibsen. The author's intention has been to get behind the daunting outside image of the dramatist, in order to reveal the story of Ibsen's...

Lord Inverchapel was a key figure in British foreign policy and diplomacy during Great Britain's twilight as a great power. His early diplomatic service postings included Berlin, Washington, and the...

During the Soviet era, millions of Soviets - Socialist Revolutionaries, peasants, ordinary citizens, Bolshevik party activists and university students - were denounced, arrested, and imprisoned on fabricated charges of conducting...

These are the stories our ancestors told to explain how the world began; or they are legends of half-remembered heroes or people whose lives were changed by magic. Brilliantly retold...

Immensely learned, self-educated in an era when formal schooling was denied to women, Mary Wortley Montagu was an admired poet, a consistently scandalous doyenne of eighteenth-century London society, and, in...

An elegant reissue of a classic book from one of the twentieth century's greatest garden writers. This landmark work on creating a garden was first published in 1956 and has...

From TV's Eat Shop Save 's resident chef and nutritionist, Dale Pinnock, comes the only book you will ever need to learn the basics of healthy cooking at home. Medicinal...

A reissue of Willard Price's classic adventure series set in the animal kingdom. 'You are walking into the jaws of death' Hal and Roger Hunt are on an awesome African...

Throughout her life, Virginia Woolf worked and reworked short story ideas, trying to enacapsulate her thoughts perfectly in a concise form, but rarely did she publish them. This volume brings...

Even though Agatha Raisin loathes Christmas panto, her friend Mrs Bloxby, the vicar's wife, has persuaded her to support the local am dram society in their festive offering. Stifling a...

I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...' The only child in...

A Russian Diary is the book that Anna Politkovskaya had recently completed when she was murdered in a contract killing in Moscow. Covering the period from the Russian parliamentary elections...

This book features unique and timeless French-inspired interiors created by those who have a lifelong love affair with French style. In "Essentially French", antiques dealer and stylist Josephine Ryan offers...

One of the greatest works of the American West - 'A new American classic.' Time On a scorching June Sunday in 1876, thousands of Indian warriors - Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne...

Inside THE OUTSIDER- Colin Wilson returns to the subject of his million- selling book Colin Wilson wrote THE OUTSIDER, a brilliant account of the pain of being alive today, when...

As children, Virginia Woolf, elder sister Vanessa Bell, and brother Thoby, collaborated on their very own newspaper, recording the day-to-day events of the family home, 22 Hyde Park Gate. They...

A newly discovered piece by the author of Mrs Dalloway, Carlyle's House and Other Sketches marks the first publication of one of Virginia Woolf's very early notebooks. Recently unearthed from...

Fascinated by word play, Leonardo created a series of riddles, cleverly disguised as apocalyptic prophecies and fantasies. The 'solution' to each of these inspired sayings - often simply the image...

The history of art has produced few works as ambitious and as valuable as the Amber Room. Famous throughout Europe as the 'eighth wonder of the world', its vast and...

In 1922, Lenin personally drew up a list of some 160 'undesirable' intellectuals - mostly philosophers, academics, scientists and journalists - to be deported from the new Soviet State. Two...

The Enlightenment had dislodged Christianity from its central position in the life of European societies. Man's quest for ecstasy and trancendance flooded into areas such as the arts, spawning the...

The Making of Scotch Whisky marked a revolution in the understanding of Scotland's most famous industry when it was first published, and remains the standard work - if you can...

This beautiful book gives new life to the values and thinking of the Che Guevara behind the legend, a man who was at once sensitive, passionate and determined to pursue...

'Washington Square' marks the culmination of James's apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters, James provides an acute analysis of middle-class manners and...

Longlisted for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction In rural India, an isolated woman falsely accused of killing her vanished husband becomes an unwilling consultant to other aspiring widows. In...

'A tour de force. Drawing on cognitive psychology, neuroscience and her own experience, this book offers compelling lessons for how busy people can lead better lives.' Richard Layard What if...

It's a stormy dark night in the quaint English town of Oldminister when local gallery owner Louis Gillette is discovered dead in his office. Gillette seems to have been bludgeoned...