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...

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David Attenborough The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth(Life Trilogy #2) Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants, animals and man thrive or survive within the extremes...

Author: Aryeh Kaplan The Living Torah : The Five Books of Moses and the Haftarot - A New Translation Based on Traditional Jewish Sources, with notes, introduction, maps, ... &...

Elly GriffithsRuth Galloway and DCI Nelson are on the hunt for a murderer when Covid rears its ugly head. But can they find the killer despite lockdown?'GALLOWAY NOW SEEMS AS...

Elly Griffiths Pandemic lockdowns have Ruth Galloway feeling isolated from everyone but a new neighbor--until Nelson comes calling, investigating a decades-long string of murder-suicides that's looming ever closer. Three years after...

John SteinbeckIn the two years after the 1939 publication of Steinbeck’s masterful The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck and his novel increasingly became the center of intense controversy and censorship. In...

Dietrich DornerWhy do we make mistakes? Are there certain errors common to failure, whether in a complex enterprise or daily life? In this truly indispensable book, Dietrich Dörner identifies what...

Tim Harford “Life often seems to defy logic. When a prostitute agrees to unprotected sex, or a teenage criminal embarks on a burglary, or a smoker lights another cigarette, we...

F Scott Fitzgerald The Last Tycoon, edited by the renowned literary critic Edmund Wilson, was first published a year after Fitzgerald's death and includes the author's notes and outline for his...

Joanne HarrisThe Lollipop Shoes(Chocolat #2)The wind has always dictated Vianne Rocher's every move, buffeting her from the French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes to the crowded streets of Paris. Cloaked in a...