A single-volume history told in a new way: mingling grand sweep narrative with deep-core, local, personal stories - all woven together with landscape history and the author’s own travel journals.

One Hundred Years of Solitude is perhaps the most important landmark of the so-called ‘Boom’ in contemporary Latin American fiction. Michael Wood places the novel in the context of modern…

"As ancient civilizations formed, people developed spoken and written languages and tools such as paper, the printing press, and more to communicate and disperse information. Discover how early societies created…

"From the first spear throwers to the dreaded Claws of Archimedes, discover the ancient technologies that changed the course of human history"--

Enter a world of enchantment with our fantasy woodland maidens and strong women in the woods and forests. With even more characters and 54 single-sided, 8"x10" pages to color, you…

This is the story of Ted and Emily Wood, who are known to each other as Daddy and Tinker. They have been married for twelve years now, but when they…

Widely regarded as the greatest filmmaker of the twentieth century, Alfred Hitchcock had a gift for creating suspense and a shrewd knowledge of human psychology. His film career, spanning more…

Starting with Walter Benjamin’s idea of ‘reception in a state of distraction’ and looking briefly at some antecedents for Benjamin’s thinking, this book develops a working model of distraction in…