A pulsing, personal, and fabulous ride through the music and culture of an iconic nightclub scene.

A Philosophy of Loneliness explores the different kinds of loneliness, the philosophy of emotions...

An exploration of cannibal monsters and ghouls that feast on human flesh.

Mapping the acoustic onto the human soul, moving meditations on the power and meaning of sound.

A life of the nineteenth-century German writer and composer most famous for inspiring The Nutcrac...

Karl Schlögel beweist mit dem Titel 'Entscheidung in Kiew: Ukrainische Lektionen' erneut, dass er...

In Coffee: A Global History, Jonathan Morris explains how the world acquired a taste for coffee, ...

Hannah Arendt is one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century and her wor...

From a leading writer of the sea, an exquisitely illustrated deep dive into the beauty and meanin...

From celebrated historian and writer Peter Ackroyd, a magisterial portrayal of English Christiani...

Before best-selling author Helen Macdonald told the story of the goshawk in H Is for Hawk, she to...

Shells have captivated humans from the dawn of time: the earliest known artwork was made on a she...

What do we really know about the food we eat? A firestorm of recent food-fraud cases, from the US...

Now in paperback, this first global history of sports offers all spectators and participants a re...

This book is a comprehensive investigation of lying in everyday life. What exactly is a lie, and ...

Out of the Depths explores all aspects of shipwrecks across 4,000 years, examining their historic...

However much his work has been reviled or contested, Sigmund Freud remains one of the most signif...

Virginia Woolfs novel famously beginsMrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. Of cour...

When people think of Russian food they generally think either of opulent luxury, signified above ...

Originally published as El duelo de los ángeles; Valencia, Spain: Pre-Textos,2004, and in Mexico ...

Horror films revel in taking viewers into shadowy places where evil resides, whether it is a hous...

Following the defeat of the Third Reich in 1945, Germany has experienced recurring turmoil and re...

'Many of us, proponents and critics alike, commonly make assumptions about religion. We may presu...

Sushi and sashimi are by now a global sensation and have become perhaps the best known of Japanes...

Hans Holbein the Younger (1497 8 - 1543), one of the most versatile and admired painters of the N...

It's a troubling phenomenon that many of us think of as a modern psychological epidemic, a sympto...

Though he's known now primarily as the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in his lifetim...

Beautifully illustrated with images of Dorothea Tanning's artwork and more, the first--and defini...

This second edition of Steven Roger Fischer's fascinating book charts the history of communicatio...

'Offal' has the same pronunciation as 'awful'--an appropriate homophone, given that offal compris...

A comprehensive and richly illustrated history, Yew will appeal to botanists and other readers in...

The story of how the movies assumed a gritty facade in the name of authenticity, with working act...

An illuminating history of the forgotten concept of climatic botany that underscores how vital fo...

A profound analysis of the factors underlying the 2021 invasion of the US Capitol, arriving as th...

A concise history of the enormously powerful and influential Shi'i caliphate.

A provocative reassessment of a popular narrative that connects museums, the antiquities trade, a...

Illuminated with illustrations, an exploration of medieval manuscript production that offers insi...

In the turmoil of the 1920s and '30s, Claude Cahun challenged gender stereotypes with her powerfu...

'This is a book about ten women who, over the past three hundred years have found walking essenti...

The central argument of Chromophobia is that a chromophobic impulse - a fear of corruption or con...

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year

It began with The Beatles Helter Skelter. It was distilled to its dark essence by Black Sabbath. ...

There is more history in a bowl of pasta than in the Colosseum, writes Andreas Viestad in Dinner ...

'Kimono: A Modern History' traces the transformation of the kimono from everyday garment to natio...

Calling the Spirits investigates the eerie history of our conversations with the dead, from necro...

Jacopo Tintoretto (1518 94) is an ambiguous figure in the history of art. His radically unorthodo...

Mushrooms are loved, despised, feared and misunderstood. They have been a familiar part of nature...

In this monumental, authoritative new history of Afghanistan, Jonathan L. Lee places the current ...