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...

MG GlennMendel G. Glenn selected and translated this 1932 collection of tales and legends from the Talmud and Midrash, arranged chronologically, that "deal with Pentateuchal figures and heroes only."

HR Ellis DavidsonTiw, Woden, Thunor, Frig. these ancient northern deities gave their names to the very days of our week. Nevertheless, most of us know far more of Mars, Mercury,...

Arthur D MorseFirst published in 1967, 'While Six Million Died' revealed the untold story behind the deliberate obstruction placed in the way of attempts to save the Jewish people from...

Primo Levi The Periodic Table by Primo Levi is an impassioned response to the Holocaust: Consisting of 21 short stories, each possessing the name of a chemical element, the collection...

Shlomo Wakshlomo Waks and his family were routed from their home in Krasnik (Poland) by SS troops and taken to the local railroad station for deportation to Belzec, a newly...

George BurnsBurns' career has spanned the history of modern show business, and here is the backstage story of the people who made that history. The reader gets the inside scoop...

Tom WolfeA wildly vivid and entertaining chronicle of America's manned space program, from the author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test‘What is it’ asks Tom Wolfe, ‘that makes a man...

American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History Chris Kyle From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills...

Mark KurlanskyHomer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shaped civilisation from the beginning,...

Allegra KentOne of the greatest of George Balanchine's ballerinas, Allegra Kent joined the New York City Ballet at the age of fifteen and only two years later inspired Balanchine's "The...

Angus TrumbleIt has been said that supreme enlightenment is reflected in the holy smile of the Buddha. Yet, the Victorians thought of open-mouthed smiling as obscene, and nineteenth-century English and...