David Lodge Essays gathered from the Washington Post and the London Independent examine the art and artistry of some of the best writers working in the English language, covering such...

Author: Benjamin Hoff The author's explanations of Taoist philosophy and Te (a Chinese word meaning virtue of the small) through Pooh and Piglet show that philosophy is not remote, but...

Michael Foley It has always been difficult to appreciate everyday life, often devalued as dreary, banal and burdensome, and never more so than in a culture besotted with fantasy, celebrity...

Guy Deutscher "Guy Deutscher is that rare beast, an academic who talks good sense about linguistics... he argues in a playful and provocative way, that our mother tongue does indeed affect...

Naomi Wolf An astonishing new work that radically changes how we think about, talk about and understand the vagina - and consequently how we think about women and sexuality -...

Kitty Kelley For the past twenty-five years, no one has been better at revealing secrets than Oprah Winfrey. On what is arguably the most influential show in television history, she...

Sheri Fink NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning book that inspired an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ • A landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital...

Kim Solga Presents step-by-step instructions for producing artwork using paint and other materials usually found around the house. January 1, 1991 by North Light Books

Deborah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt A riveting examination in words and photos of Auschwitz, from its roots as a violent market town to the concentration camps built during...

Editor: Patricia Wayant Starting on the day she is born, a granddaughter brings immeasurable joy into a grandparent's life. She is a miracle in the making, and while there is...

Max Arthur  The Imperial War Museum holds a vast archive of interviews with soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians of most nationalities who saw action during WW2. As in the highly-acclaimed Forgotten...

Roy Porter For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. Porter certainly acknowledges...