Walt Whitman and His new bible!'No one will get at my verses,' Walt Whitman wrote, 'who insists u...

REASON, RELIGION, AND THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY A major characteristic of much of religion in the ...

The title of this book involves a play on words. Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking both spent a...

Motherhood & Mourning

A COMMON MAN, AN UNCOMMON LIFE.Most memoirs, it seems, are written by the rich or the famous. The...

SPONSORED BY THE NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF COVERED BRIDGESTheodore Burr (1771-1822...

Discover the rarified Peranakan (native-born Chinese of Southeast Asia) aesthetics that are today...

The first in-depth English-language work to present regional traditions of Chinese architecture b...

Kyoto was Japan’s political and cultural capital for more than a millennium before the dawn of th...

Bridges, the least known and understood of China's many wonders, are one of its most striking and...

The Hermit’s Hut offers an original insight into the profound relationship between architecture a...

China's art objects and traditionally manufactured products have long been sought by collectors—f...

Between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the year 600, more than thirty dynasties, kingd...

A 108-meter high Eiffel Tower rises above Champs Elysées Square in Hangzhou. A Chengdu residentia...

Kyoto was Japan's political and cultural capital for more than a millennium before the dawn of th...

'The Shawangunk Mountains -- The Gunks -- are renowned for stunning landscapes on and off the rid...

China's Covered Bridges: Architecture over Water is the first book in English to examine comprehe...

When the Chinese Nationalist Party nominally reunified the country in 1928, Chiang Kai-shek and o...

The Temple of Confucius (Kong Temple) is the definitive monument to the world's greatest sage. Tr...

Although modernisation in Korea started more than a century later than in the West, it has worked...

Bangkok Utopia

SPONSORED BY THE NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF COVERED BRIDGESTheodore Burr (1771-1822...

'This is the first English-language study devoted to dougong, the block-bracket cluster widely re...