After the early death of her philandering husband, Etsuko moves into her father-in-law's house, where she numbly submits to the old man's advances. But soon she finds herself in love with the young servant Saburo. Tormented by his...

What David Macaulay can draw--churches, cities, pyramids--he does better than any pen-and-ink illustrator in the world. Castle once again goes through a brick-by-brick assembly, employing cross-hatches and thin black lines to...

Here is a passionate history of a world unfolding across many continents and five centuries by one of our greatest and internationally bestselling historians.

A beautiful collection of covetable handmade objects from a new generation of artisans the world over, with DIY craft projects inspired by them

Two families. Two faces of America. An act of violence with far-reaching consequences. Gus Voorhees is a pioneer in the advancement of women's reproductive rights and a controversial abortion provider in the American Midwest. One...

A brief introduction to seventy-six of the most thought provoking books in history and how they can help us in our everyday lives. Philosophy without the boring bits.

Join the hunt for the cosmic beauty in numbers with stories of the discovery of the ten most admired equations of all time.

In a sparkling debut in the entertaining pop science vein of Mary Roach, scientist Emma Byrne examines the latest research to show how swearing can be good for you.

Today, in the face of the challenges confronting their profession, from the economic crisis to an urgent need for longer-lasting, more affordable, and greener construction, architects have been forced to reconsider the...

Where have the people in any particular place actually come from? This evocative historical journey around the world shows us.

A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'. They regard this disallusionment as an act of...

In the remote Kingdom of Castalia, the scholars of the Twenty Third century play the Glass Bead Game. The elaborately coded game is a fusion of all human knowledge - of maths, music, philosophy, science, and art. Intrigued as a...

Maurice Sendak is celebrated in this full-colour catalogue of more than 200 images and 12 essays from noted scholars. Maurice Sendak: A Celebration of the Artist and His Work is a deeply personal and thoughtful tribute to a...

This is the biography of one of the titans of financial history over the last fifty years. Born in 1926, Alan Greenspan was raised in Manhattan by a single mother and immigrant grandparents during the Great Depression but by quiet...