Sacred is the lush official catalog of the groundbreaking British Library exhibit bearing the same name, which presents many of the world’s most beautiful religious texts for the first time. Illustrations from rare and exquisite examples of Jewish,...

Des millions de lecteurs ont eu leur vie accompagnée par Alexandre Soljenitsyne, ont suivi avec passion sa lutte solitaire contre un empire qui semblait établi pour un bon millénium, ont eu la révélation de L'Archipel du Goulag, puis, moins nombreux,...

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In 1914 the Ottoman Empire was depleted of men and resources after years of war against Balkan nationalist and Italian forces. But in the aftermath of the assassination in Sarajevo, the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and not even...

"Certainly the best general history available in English."--Times Literary Supplement.

In the history of Western thought, men have persistently asked three questions concerning the habitable earth and their relationships to it. Is the earth, which is obviously a fit environment for man and other organic life, a purposefully made creation?...

Text and photographs seek to recapture the life and architecture of Chicago between 1833 and 1933, celebrating the fallen and razed private and public buildings and monuments of the Place of the Wild Onion

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SLATE For fans of Anne Rice, The Historian, and The Night Circus, an astonishing debut, a novel of epic scope and suspense that conjures up all the magic and menace of Victorian London 1892: James Norbury, a...

America’s favorite pastime: Crosswords! Celebrate any relaxing day in the backyard or on the road with this collection of 100 Sunday New York Times crosswords edited by puzzlemaster Will Shortz.Features:- 100 themed New York Times Sunday crosswords-...

A NEW YORKER “ESSENTIAL READ”A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER, VOGUE, AND NPR“Perhaps Hamid’s most remarkable work yet … an extraordinary vision of human possibility.” –Ayad Akhtar, author of Homeland Elegies...