Peter Ackroyd From the author of the bestselling The Biography , a poetic and powerful urban history of life and legend beneath London.This is a wonderful, atmospheric, historical, imaginative, oozing...

Esther Lehman All of us live in the reflection of these fascinating Women of the Bible, and we may even ask why are they so special? Beginning at the beginning,...

Samuel M Katz Key problems, conflicts, and decisions in Israel's past and present are analyzed in this fully documented, dramatic history of the turbulent events that have shaped the crisis...

Paul Rabinow This selection of transcribed interviews and extracts from major works, including Discipline and Punish, The History of Sexuality and Madness and Civilization, introduces the key Foucauldian relationship between...

Samuel P Huntington "Sam Huntington, one of the West's most eminent political scientists, presents a challenging framework for understanding the realities of global politics in the next century. The Clash of...

Author: Chaim Herzog The Arab-Israeli Wars: War and Peace in the Middle East from the War of Independence Through LebanonChaim HerzogA Knesset member and former Director of Military Intelligence for...

HF PetersHow the High Priestess of the Nietzsche Cult Changed History Through Her Propagation of Her Brother's Message

Deborah Cadbury With a cast of characters that wouldn?t be out of place in a Victorian novel, Chocolate Wars tells the story of the great chocolatier dynasties, through the prism...

Leslie Maitland Leslie Maitland is an award-winning former New York Times investigative reporter whose mother and grandparents fled Germany in 1938 for France, where, as Jews, they spent four years as refugees,...

Dorie McCullough Lawson An elegantly designed, beautifully composed volume of personal letters from famous American men and women that celebrates the American Experience and illuminates the rich history of some...

PhaidonFive hundred great works of art from all periods and regions in the world have been carefully selected and are arranged in chronological order, breaking through the usual geographical and...

Edited by David Rubel The Bedside Baccalaureate: A Handy Daily Cerebral Primer to Fill in the Gaps, Refresh Your Knowledge & Impress Yourself & Other Intellectuals Many adults long to...