At the start of the American Civil War, neither side had warships on either side of the Mississippi River and in the first few months of the war, both sides scrambled to gather a flotilla,...
In the age of modern warfare the changing landscape of the 21st century battlefield has demanded a transformation within the US Marine Corps Special Operations. Adapting to a huge range of combat...
Join the culinary experts at The Gourmand journal on an in-depth exploration of the literary, linguistic, historic, and gastronomic legacy of lemons, where the line between food and art is happily...
L' criture fait des miracles: elle nous transporte dans les moments qui ont fait l'Histoire, la cr ativit et le quotidien de l'humanit, et nous relie intimement des personnages qui ont...
Entrez dans un monde balayé par les vents magiques, peuplé d'amoureux au destin maudit, de géants malveillants et de trolls, et de bien d'autres merveilles issues des illustrations les plus...
En 2002, Simon «Woody» Wood imaginait toutes sortes de stratagèmes pour obtenir des sneakers gratuites. Deux semaines plus tard, il était le fier patron de Sneaker Freaker, et sa vie en était...
The story behind the making of the album that signaled the descent of Sylvester Sly Stone Stewart into a haze of drug addiction and delirium is captivating enough for the cinema. In the spacious...
In 1978, San Francisco, a city that has seen more than its share of trauma, plunged from a summer of political tension into an autumn cascade of malevolence that so eluded human comprehension it...
The twentieth century saw an unprecedented emphasis on fighting in all terrains, seasons and weather conditions. Such conditions made even basic survival difficult as subzero temperatures caused...
From The Death of Nancy Sykes (1897) to The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) and beyond, cinematic adaptations of British literature participate in a complex and fascinating history....
Mit atemberaubenden Bildern, expliziter Gesellschaftskritik und einer hypnotisierenden schauspielerischen Leistung von David Bowie in der Hauptrolle wurde The Man Who Fell to Earth (Der Mann, der...
This new work adds to the theoretical understanding and discussion of possible solutions to various conceptual and practical problems that arise within the field of medical negligence - an area...
To wander the streets of a bankrupt, often lawless, New York City in the early 1970s wearing a T-shirt with PLEASE KILL ME written on it was an act of determined nihilism, and one often recounted...
A postwar tragicomedy of manners, an Edwardian romance, and a historical drama are collected in this volume of works by the award-winning novelist. Ribbon marker.
The science of the future of the physical universe has been transformed since the discovery of the accelerating universe in 1998. Overall science paints a picture of a future of futility and...
Even among the geniuses of the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci is a figure of exceptional significance. This updated XXL monograph, comprising all of his paintings and almost 700 drawings, provides...
Scared of the Dark? It's Really Scared of You is a picture book that playfully unpacks a common childhood fear. You may be afraid of the dark... But did you know that the dark is actually...
Outside his native France, the view of Serge Gainsbourg was once of a one-hit wonder lothario. This has been slowly replaced by an awareness of how talented and innovative a songwriter he was....
Tutankhamun's royal voyage into paradise, as told aby ancient Egyptian treasures. When acclaimed photographer Sandro Vannini started his work in Egypt in the late '90s, a technological...
Part two of this series details the uniforms and equipment of the troops of the Third Republic who fought out the last five months of the war before the final catastrophic defeat.
At first glance, Walton Ford's large-scale, highly detailed watercolors of animals recall the prints of 19th-century illustrators John James Audubon and Edward Lear. A closer look reveals a...