This important addition to our understanding of art history’s masterworks puts some of theworld's most famous paintings under a magnifying glass to uncover their most small and subtle elements...
Guskin is an "acting doctor" whose clients include Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, James Gandolfini, Bridget Fonda, and dozens more. Now Guskin reveals the insights and techniques that have...
Bekanntlich lässt sich alles sexuell konnotieren, von der Nähmaschine bis zum Tortenheber. Doch gelegentlich braucht die schmutzige Fantasie, 'die zum Besten gehört, was wir haben', so der...
Interesting first person narrative following a young girl approaching her third birthday - and therefore, as Japanese tradition believes, her fall from grace to join the rest of humanity. From the...
Zbrusu nové fotografie nedávno restaurovaných obrazů ve vyčerpávající knize, která vychází u příležitosti blížícího se 500. Výročí Boschovi smrti. Kniha představuje umělcovovo kompletní dílo...
An Inspector Mallett mystery, originally published in 1939, żeby one of the best-loved Golden Age crime writers, Cyril Hare. Inspector Mallett's stay at the country house hotel of Pendlebury...
Over the last five years, often when David Mitchell has been on holiday, the comedian Stewart Lee has been attempting to understand modern Britain, and his own place in it, in a series of irregular...
Eamon de Valera is the most remarkable man in the history of modern Ireland. Much as Churchill personified British resistance to Hitler and de Gaulle personified the freedom of France, de Valera...
Norman Gash's magnificent two-volume life of "Sir Robert Peel - Mr Secretary Peel" (1961) and "Sir Robert Peel" (1972) - is the kanon work on the great statesman, and is widely...
Set before the start of the First World War, this fable sees a young English writer set out to Crete to claim a small inheritance. But when he arrives, he meets Alexis Zorba, a middle-aged Greek...
David Byrne, co-founder of the group Talking Heads, has been riding a bicycle as his principal means of transportation since the 1980's. When he tours, Byrne travels with a folding bicycle,...
Spiritualität und Natur sind wichtige Bestandteile des balinesischen Alltags und prägen auch die traditionelle Architektur Balis. In balinesischen Häusern sind Wände kein Muss, Holz ist...
Raffaello (1483–1520), è ritenuto, con Michelangelo e Leonardo, il più importante artista del Rinascimento. Nella sua breve vita realizzò un centinaio di dipinti e numerose pitture murali tra cui...
Enjoy a tour of this spooky house where a spine-tingling surprise lurks in every dark corner. Re-issued in its original full-size format, this definitive edition brings the classic pop-up novelty...
New edition of a cult classic that has never previously been published in the UK. It has been adapted by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli, who bring a dark and brilliant spin on the detective...
Joey and Denny have been best friends since kindergarten, and after working together for several years as policemen in Chicago, they are practically family: Joey helps out with Denny's wife and...
Astha besitzt alles, was sich eine gebildete Frau der Mittelklasse wünschen kann: ein schönes Zuhause, Kinder und einen pflichtbewussten, liebevollen Ehemann. Warum fühlt sie sich trotzdem...
These letters throw light on a more complex figure. Whether addressing his literary friends, who included Barbara Pym, Kingsley Amis and John Betjeman, or those less prominently placed, Larkin...
Stella Benson sets off for Hilltop, a tiny Sussex village housing a family that is somewhat larger than life. Why is she so reluctant to talk about her past?The Country Life, Rachel Cusk's...
In Mars żeby 1980, David Stubbs charts the evolution of electronic music from the earliest mechanical experiments in the late nineteenth century, through to the ubiquitous, familiar sounds of...