This book is a celebration of LGBTQIA+ activists, artists, comedians, writers, musicians and pop culture giants who have shaped our worlds, expanded our horizons and radically increased queer visib...więcej »
An authoritative and concise history of witchcraft from the ancient world up to the present day. Witchcraft has always been a fluid and intriguing belief system that has enchanted and sometimes ter...więcej »
The story of modern British art history told through the stories of its women.Consider for a moment the history of modern art in Britain; you may struggle to land on a narrative that fe...więcej »
China is the oldest continuous civilization on earth and holds a unique global place in the 21st century, this book’s uniquely wide focus shows what makes it such a special country, with topi...więcej »
Tells the fascinating story of the journey taken by the Bauhaus – both the concept behind the school and some of the individuals who represented it – from Germany to Britain and the USA...więcej »
Welcome to England's Ministry of Letters, the place where all the words in the world - in books, magazines, newspapers, road signs, posters, and more-start their lives, and from which the letters c...więcej »
Loosen up with a smile on your face... Marion Deuchars has practiced yoga for many years, and well knows the benefits it brings. Now she shares that passion with her illustrated character Bob the ...więcej »
Sickness and health, birth and death, disease and cure: medicine and our understanding of the workings of our bodies and minds are an inextricable part of how we know who we are. As we face new cha...więcej »
If all the portable artifacts of Ancient Rome were in a single location, the lives of students, historians, and connoisseurs would be immeasurably simpler. But the masterpieces are in museums all o...więcej »
Richard Connell was well-known for his masterful short stories and achieved great professional success, with his work often appearing in "The Saturday Evening Post" and "Collier's" magazines. Hi...więcej »
First published serially between 1893 and 1894, "The Jungle Book" is Rudyard Kipling's classic collection of jungle tales in which we first meet Mowgli, a child lost in the jungles of India and ...więcej »
First published in 1885, "Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans" is the charming and engaging American history book for children by Edward Eggleston. Best known for his "Hoosier" serie...więcej »
One of the world's most famous writers, Leo Tolstoy, is probably best known for his epic romantic works "Anna Karenina" and "War and Peace". In addition to being the author of some of the greate...więcej »
First published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" is widely hailed as one of the most important American novels of the twentieth-century. Fitzgerald's third novel and his most si...więcej »
Widely heralded as one of the first truly modern novels, Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" was published in 1925 and is one of the author's most popular and critically acclaimed works. All of the...więcej »
John Maynard Keynes was a British economist whose theories had a profound impact on twentieth century history and economic practice. Born and raised in Cambridge, England to highly successful, i...więcej »
Written in the 16th century by a reform-minded Carmelite monk, “Dark Night of the Soul” is a treatise focusing on the metaphor of a dark night to represent a lonely phase in one&rsqu...więcej »
First published in 1834, “A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett” is the autobiography of the famous American folk hero Davy Crockett, often referred to as the “King of the ...więcej »
“Maxims and Reflections” is a collection of wisdom and advice by Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld, a noted French aristocrat, soldier and author. La Rochefoucauld was born in 1613 in...więcej »
Written in 350 BC, Aristotle’s “De Anima” or “On the Soul” is not a work on spirituality, as the title would suggest, but rather a work that could be described as o...więcej »