Ray BondsThis is a book both for players of all levels, amateur to professional, as well as music enthusiasts, whatever their interest: classical, jazz, flamenco, blues, country, rock and pop....

The Jerusalem Post: Israel in Focus 1932-1928Images of Israel through the photos of The Jerusalem Post.When one captures an image of Israel in their mind, it can be any number...

Tracy ChevalierA tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier’s answer to the mystery behind one of the art world’s great masterpieces—a set...

Heinrich BollA photographic study of Israel's land and people, with scenes from cities and countryside depicting the great variety of the Holy LandFirst published September 1, 1986

Dominic Smith This is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds peopled by characters so intriguing and real that we can't shake...

Jane Carruthers and Marion ArnoldThomas Baines, an intrepid Victorian adventurer travelled extensively in South Africa and was selected to accompany David Livingstone in exploring the upper reaches of the Zambezi...

Arthur Knight Arthur Knight (1916—1991) was a movie critic, film historian, professor and TV host. His book The Liveliest Art, first published in 1957, is a history of the cinema...

Giorgio VasariThese biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term "Renaissance," was...

Ruiyan XuA dazzling debut novel about the power of love and language...Li Jing, a successful, happily married businessman, is dining at a grand hotel in Shanghai when a gas explosion...

Michael KernanWhen ancient notebooks turn up in a Long Island garage, Peter Van Overloop, a Columbia graduate student, sets to translating them, and finds himself immersed in the life and...

AS ByattEach story is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling -- about the ways in...

CDB BryanAn updated and enlarged edition of the centennial history of the National Geographic Society which first appeared in 1987. All text and pictures from the original book are included...