Isak Dinesen's Africa: Images of the Wild Continent from the Writer's Life and Words   Isak Dinesen   In her memoir, Out of Africa, and in short stories, Danish-born writer...

Country Decorating: Inspiring Ideas for Creating the Authentic Country Look in Your Home

Sarah Silberstein SwartzExcerpts from memoirs, biographies, novels, short stories, religious, ethical, and psychological literature, and visual art provide the bar mitzvah boy with examples from his Jewish heritage.

Robert Hughes(introduction), Stefan Dech(Foreword), Robert Meisner(Foreword) Once we used to watch space from Earth. Now we can watch the Earth from space. It is half a century since the first...

Mitchell BeazleyFeatures: Reusable peel-off stickers and grid to design your own kitchen.The up-to-the minute way to plan your kitchen, complete with layout grid and reusable, peel-off stickers for all your...

Gilles NeretDuring the Renaissance, the great artists, from Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli to Michelangelo and Rapheal, transformed the history of art, achieving an even closer imitation of nature whilst...

Jamel Shabazz and Ernie PaniccioliBack in the Days documents the emerging Hip Hop scene from 1980-1989-before it became what is today's multi-million-dollar multinational industry. Back in the days, gangs would...

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...

Author: Margaret Forster Lost, found, stolen, strayed, sold, fought over... This engrossing, beautifully crafted novel follows the fictional adventures, over a hundred years, of an early 20th-century painting and the...

Ruth SawyerAs interest in the art of storytelling continues to grow, many books have appeared on the subject but none have matched the scope and charm of The Way of...

Uplifting the Colonial Philistine: Florence Philips and the Making of the Johannesburg Art GalleryJillian CarmanUplifting the Colonial Philistine is a thoroughly researched, fascinating account of the unusual circumstances in which...

Esther ShkalimYoung people from over 20 lands explain their Jewish holiday customs as practiced in their country or origin. They also discuss how emigrating to Israel has impacted on these...