How did the jaguar get his spots? What happened to the four suns that came before our own? Where was Aztlan, mythical homeland of the Aztecs?For decades, the popular image of the Mexica...więcej »
The first century AD was one of momentous events: the end of the Roman empire, the rise of Christianity across western Europe and the disappearance of Persia from the Near East; an era in which the...więcej »
Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series celebrates writers and thinkers who have helped shape the conversation across the arts. Mixing classic and contempora...więcej »
In a publishing career that spanned less than a decade, Jane Austen revolutionized the literary romance, using it as a stage from which to address issues of gender politics and class consciousness ...więcej »
A hands-on monster collage studio that will delight and inspirePaper Monsters is a hands- on collage studio for young children. Budding artists can create seven collage pictures of mons...więcej »
No other art movement in history has contained two artists as different as Magritte and Miró. This is because Surrealism was not in origin an art movement, but a philosophical strategy. It w...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 »
A concise history of Paris and the great events and personalities, from prehistory to the present, that have shaped its unique cultural legacy.Once described as "that metropolis of...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 »
From the moment of his adoption by the Earnshaws, the foundling boy Heathcliff devotes himself to their young daughter Catherine. Growing up together, the two share a love that blossoms into romanc...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 »
First published in 1878, Tolstoy's masterpiece tells the story of a woman who seems to have everything: beauty, wealth, popularity and son she adores. Then she meets the impetuous officer Count Vro...więcej »
When he attends a dying patron of his family's boarding house, young Jim Hawkins has no idea that the man was once a pirate, or that the man's possessions include a map that will lead whoever has i...więcej »
When millions suffer under oppression, when resentment boils into bloody insurrection, when triumph leads to savage vengeance—can one individual life matter? In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles ...więcej »
At Thornfield Hall, resolute and independent Jane Eyre finds fulfillment in her duties as governess, and the love of her life in her employer Edward Rochester. But when a dark secret from Rochester...więcej »
That rascal Tom Sawyer is having quite a time! In just a few months' time he's gotten engaged to the new girl in town, witnessed a murder, stayed in a haunted house, found buried treasure, been los...więcej »
Desperate to escape his abusive father and the constraints of the civilized life, young Huck Finn fakes his death and, with the help of his slave friend Jim, embarks on a vagabond life rafting down...więcej »
Often called the greatest nineteenth-century British novelist, George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans) created in Middlemarch a vast panorama of life in a provincial Midlands town. At the sto...więcej »
This beautiful collectible edition presents three novels from one of the most beloved American authors: Louisa May Alcott. It includes her most famous and cherished classic, Little Women, about the...więcej »
When Napoleon invades Russia in 1812 it forever changes those engulfed by the violence. Although told on a panoramic scale, War and Peace explores how the chaos of battle, the horror of death and b...więcej »