Franz Kafka died in 1924, when he was not yet forty-one. During his life he published only seven ...

First published in 1920, How to Dine in Style opens a window onto the golden age of elegant dinin...

Johann Wilhelm Weinmann was an apothecary who established a botanic garden in Regensburg and set ...

A stunningly packaged anthology of writings and artwork by noted wood engraver Clare Leighton, in...

Reynard - a subversive, dashing, anarchic, aristocratic, witty fox from the watery lowlands of me...

Spanning the Islamic world, from ninth-century Baghdad to nineteenth-century Iran, this book tell...

A succinct account of one of the great libraries of Europe, with fascinating details of the lives...

Listen In explores the sensational early history of radio from the perspective of listeners throu...

Travel through time with words that have shaped the trajectory of the English language across cen...

True accounts of groundbreaking women anthropologists defying gender norms in the early 20th cent...

A new kind of biography on Jane Austen examining the objects she encountered during her life alon...

This exquisitely illustrated collection of essays by leading scholars and experts offers a glimps...