Beginning the Age of Star Wars - epic adventures featuring your favorite characters from all three film trilogies! And first up are the heroes and...
Enter the world of Junji Ito's art--an abyss of horror and sublime beauty. A first-ever collection of Junji Ito's artworks, featuring over 130 images from...
With never-before-seen development art, character sketches, storyboards, and color scripts, The Art Raya and the Last Dragon gives fans a front-row view of the making...
The world's finest ingredients - how to buy, store, cook, and eat themGood cooking is about good ingredients - and this book shows food lovers...
Why are we creative? Why are we not? In The Dialectic of Creativity, Hermann Vaske explores these questions in conversations with Marina Abramovic, Vivienne Westwood,...
Life behind the Iron CurtainThe East German collection of the Wende MuseumFor 40 years, the Cold War dominated the world stage. East and West Germany...
The Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it remains controversial. It is often...
The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's preeminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the East'The Sassoons were one of the...
'A masterful portrait of a historic watershed' Publishers Weekly'Elucidating, indispensable' KirkusA thrilling history of the revolutionary birth of modern Greece from 'the preeminent historian of...
'Mightily impressive ... a marvellous read' Waldemar Januszczak, Sunday TimesFrom the acclaimed author of Japan Story, this is the history of Japan, distilled into the...
The story of the fall of the Ottoman Empire, published to coincide with the centenary of its dissolutionThe Ottoman Empire had been one of the...
Ambitious and wide-ranging, this is the first single volume to tell the story of the library as a distinct building type, all around the world...
'Nowhere have I witnessed real happiness, but surely it is to be found here...'The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast...
'A story? No. No stories, never again...' The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most...
The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the worldFor six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing...
Just discovered you're pregnant? Feeling a little bit lost? This book has the answers to all your questions, including the ones you haven't even thought...
When the Roman legions could no longer successfully defend the borders of the Empire, and its territory was prey to raids and invasions by foreign...
'Visually stunning...it's gone straight to the top of my Christmas present list.' The Bookseller'I remember how well I liked to turn the pages of my...
This is the story of streetwear. King ADZ and Wilma Stone recount how a long line of subcultural movements have been incorporated into a multi-billion-dollar...
Revised edition featuring all-new designs.Maps and charts are needed by both businesses and society in order to make complicated information and data comprehensible....