This work introduces the 50 best theatres and concert halls built in Europein recent years. Outstanding architecture from Pritzker award winners, ZahaHadid, Jean Nouvel, Herzog & de Meuron, Christian ...
n 1991, Gerald Ratner made a landmark speech to the Institute of Directors. After over 25 years in the jewellery trade, Gerald Ratner was one of the most well-known and successful retailers of his gen...
Bloodshot is finally free of the memories that have haunted him since his awakening ― but now even greater mysteries remain. Who was he before he was transformed into a walking weapon? And just what p...
From an internationally acclaimed authority on Communism comes this comprehensive look at the origins of the ideology, its development in different nations, its collapse in many of those countries, an...
Humans cannot live without stories. But one story has proved itself the most durable and hauntingly real of all time. The mythic tale of Adam and Eve has shaped conceptions of human origins and destin...
This beautiful book focuses on Laurelton Hall, Louis Comfort Tiffany's extraordinary country estate in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. Beginning in 1902, Tiffany (1848--1933) designed every aspect...
Perhaps no other Western writer has more deeply probed the bitter struggle in the Muslim world between the forces of religion and law and those of violence and lawlessness as Noah Feldman. His scholar...
From the acclaimed author of Britain's War Machine and The Shock of the Old, a bold reassessment of Britain's twentieth century. It is usual to see the United Kingdom as an island of continuity in an ...
Clement Greenberg (1909-94) dominated the American art scene, and is still considered the most influential American art critic of the twentieth century. He was a major champion of Abstract Expressioni...
This book is a study of the actors and institutions that shaped decision-making on privatization in the Russian oil industry between 1992 and 2006. Li-Chen analyzes the origins of privatization as a p...
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe e...
Although not widely studied in the West, the medieval history of south-eastern Europe is both fascinating and complex. The Kingdom of Hungary was a vast realm, at least the size of France, that endure...