(Paperback)

The first monograph on the key figure in Chinese fast-growing art scene.

(Paperback)

The first monograph on the key Victorian painter in a century.

(Hardback)

A decade and a half has passed since Grace was locked up, at the age of 16, for the cold-blooded murders of her employer Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper/lover Nancy Montgomery. Her alleged accomplice, James McDermot, was hanged in 1843. Dr Simon Jordan attempts to uncover the truth.

(Paperback)

Offering a kaleidoscopic journey into the experiences of modernization, the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world, this title dexterously interweaves an exploration of modernism in art, literature, and architecture.

(Hardback)

The great voyages of discovery of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries brought European artists face-toface with new and exotic plants and animals, and created an intense interest in the way nature was investigated and recorded. In this book, the author explores the history of natural history.

(Hardback)

With 800 home-cooking recipes, America: The Cookbook is a celebration of the remarkable diversity of American food and food culture state by state. Features 50 essays and menus from a 'who's who' of 100 foremost food experts and chefs

(Hardback)

This book provides an historical analysis of postwar economic development in the United States. Samuel Rosenberg investigates three postwar phases: the creation of an institutional framework setting the stage for prosperity in the U.S. after World War II.

(, 2008 printing)

A survey of the American composers who invented new musical languages.

(Hardback, Revised edition)

An updated edition of Shore's groundbreaking book, now with previously unpublished photographs and a new introduction

(Paperback)

A controversial examination by one of Britain's leading philosophers of one of the most important and morally complex issues of our time

(Paperback)

France's favourite country policeman investigates a suicide and gets involved in a tricky local issue in the latest adventure in this ever popular and bestselling mystery series

(Paperback)

A plethora of puzzles, games, jokes and brainteasers all about Ancient Egypt. There are crosswords, word searches, anagrams, hidden words, picture puzzles, logic and maths puzzles, hieroglyphic codes to crack and lots of jokes and cartoons.

(Hardback)

Takes the reader to Ancient Egypt in the time of Ramesses II (1250BC). This title guides the time-travelling tourist on a journey up the Nile, and en route, offers advice on everything from deciphering hieroglyphics to mummifying household pets.

(Paperback)

With a plethora of puzzles, games, jokes and brainteasers about Ancient Greece, this book also offers crosswords, word searches, anagrams, hidden word, picture puzzles, logic and maths puzzles, codes to crack and a lot of jokes and cartoons.

(Paperback, Second edition)

In this 2nd revised edition, the author traces the history, archaeology and art from the growth of settled communities around 6000 BC to the beginning of the Islamic period in the seventh century AD.

(Paperback)

Providing a fun way to find out about Ancient Rome, this activity book includes word puzzles, picture puzzles, logic and maths puzzles, and jokes and cartoons.

(Hardback)

A major monograph on Asias leading interior designer.

(Paperback)

The Classic-period kings ruled over the Khmer empire from AD 802 for more than five centuries, and this book, newly available in paperback, examines the massive architectural achievements of this period, including the huge capital city of Angkor, with the awe- inspiring Angkor Wat, the world's largest religious structure.

(Paperback)

The seven centuries of the Anglo-Saxon period in England, roughly AD 4001100, were a time of extraordinary and profound transformation in almost every aspect of its culture, culminating in a dramatic shift from a barbarian society to a recognizably medieval civilization. This book traces the different roles art has played in Anglo-Saxon culture.

Accompanying the first major UK solo exhibition of her work, this comprehensive publication charts five decades of Brazil-based artist Anna Maria Maiolino, one of the defining female voices of her generation.

(Paperback)

The shocking but ultimately uplifting life story of an Irish woman who endured 13 years of cruelty and injustice in an orphanage

Maureen Coppinger's earliest memory is of watching the woman she believed to be her mother walk away and abandon her to the care of the nuns at one of Ireland's notorious industrial schools.

(Paperback)

Anri Sala (b. 1974) creates hauntingly simple videos that explore the roles language and vision play in fractured contemporary society.

(Hardback)

A complete career monograph on British sculptor Sir Anthony Caro

" Acclaimed actor and director Janet Suzman's edited version of Shakespeare's lyrical tragedy of doomed lovers. A muscular, rigorous approach to the text, this is an authoritative edition. "