Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to Mexico.Discover popular and off the beaten track experiences from wandering through the labyrinthine jungle garden of Las Pozas, to sunbathing on the...

Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to South America.Discover popular and off the beaten track experiences from spotting giant tortoises, marine iguanas, and more on the Galapagos' Isla Isabela,...

In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, this New York Times bestseller is a page-turning account of one of the nation's last segregated asylums..."a book that left me breathless" (Clint Smith). For centuries, Black patients have been...

Math + cats = an infinitely more entertaining exploration of the concepts and principles that are the foundation of our understanding of mathematics. In Math Cats, mathematician and professor Daniel Look, along with a clowder of his feline friends,...

A search for the meaning of one of nature's greatest riddles: why do so many creatures transform? "How many creatures walking on this earth / Have their first being in another form?" the Roman poet Ovid asked two thousand years ago. He could not have...

From the author and translator of the National Book Award finalist and Booker Prize shortlisted Cursed Bunny, comes a novel-in-ghost-stories, set in a mysterious research center that houses cursed objects, where those who open the wrong door might find...

A $100 million painting. A previously unknown Picasso is discovered in the attic of a French villa. Everyone wants to possess it. Filthy-rich Manhattan art people. Organized crime bosses. Power-hungry government officials. A notorious forger. A...

From the award-winning author of Creep comes a powerful book by a writer at the peak of her powers--at once a love letter to California and a literary tour de force that tells the story of resilience and reclamation through a relationship with plants,...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly, the Lincoln Lawyer is back with a case against an AI company whose product may have been responsible for the murder of a young girl. Following his "resurrection walk" and need for a new...

Stroll along Dubrovnik's ancient walls, hike the idyllic Julian Alps, and set sail on the glimmering Adriatic: with Rick Steves, Croatia and Slovenia are yours to explore! Inside Rick Steves Croatia & Slovenia you'll find: Comprehensive coverage for...

An acclaimed scholar tells the full, breathtaking history of Rome "with verve and aplomb" (Roderick Beaton, author of The Greeks), from its emergence in the Iron Age to the capture of Constantinople in the thirteenth century When we think of "ancient...

From the author of the international bestseller Schott's Original Miscellany comes a visually rich book that breaks down the colorful language and systems of signs that make up the vocabulary of our world. Here is an obsessive and fascinating look at...

"With unfailing lucidity, empathy, and wit" (Greil Marcus), a preeminent Harvard professor and poetry expert explains the artistry--and the celebrity--of Taylor Swift Taylor Swift has become a peerless superstar, ceaselessly productive and...

LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL AWARD * From the Whiting Award-winning author Jaquira Díaz, an epic novel of a mother and daughter wrestling with the aftermath of a murder, set against the backdrop of a tightknit, working-class barrio...

"A celebration of Tim Curry's life's work -- including the iconic Dr. Frank-N-Further in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" -- and a testament to his profound impact on the entertainment industry as we know it today, There are few stars in Hollywood today...

The arc of literary giant John Updike’s life emerges in these luminous daily letters to family, friends, editors, and lovers—a remarkable outpouring over six decades, from his earliest consciousness as a writer to his final days.As James Schiff writes in...

From the first steam trains to the high-speed bullet trains of today, Rise of the Railroad tells the hidden stories of railway history - the inspired engineering, technical ingenuity, and sheer determination that forged the world's railroads ...

From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Hacker's Mind and Data & Goliath, an informative and wide-ranging exploration of how AI will alter every facet of democracy, and how to harness the technology to distribute rather than concentrate power...

This fascinating history of cartography includes more than 300 maps, from the ancient world to the present day. Combining stunning reproductions with clear annotations and pull-out details, it is an expertly curated selection of the finest examples ever...

An award-winning Oxford history professor “makes a forceful argument and tells a story with great verve” (The Wall Street Journal)—that the West is, and always has been, truly global.“Those archaic ‘Western Civ’ classes so many of us took in college...