This is the story of drag racing's formative years, told through the feats of the people and cars involved. The simple format on a dragstrip was, and remains, two cars lining up…
Indianapolis track announcer Tom Carnegie used to whip the crowds into frenzied excitement during qualification runs for the famous 500, especially when he intoned his trademark…
Ask an expert who are the 5 most influential American Jewish leaders of the last century and Rabbi Arthur Waskow will make most of the lists. The author of the original Freedom…
Proč mají feministky rády čarodějnice? Proč se hon na čarodějnice - tedy v přeneseném smyslu útok na autonomii a svobodu žen - v dějinách opakuje stále dokola? Kapitalismus…
A big-hearted novel about a woman who theorises that happiness is possible solely with the eradication of all romance - only to find a love that could change her life forever....
KJ Parker''s new novella is a darkly witty historical fantasy. A group of scholars are asked to do the impossible by a ruthless king. The cost of refusal being death, of course…
Explore fifty extraordinary architect-designed homes that capture the spirit of summer
An essential global survey of the most exciting contemporary painters, as selected by the world’s leading art experts
Discover more than 300 extraordinary unbuilt architecture projects that never made it off the drawing board
Over 100 global artists working with collage, as chosen by art experts, now available in paperback for the first time
Caroline Summers helps people to die. A blackshroud, a member of a select society of women who have dispensed the fatal draught since time immemorial. In Victorian England she…
A novel approach to performance art and its history that revisits Viennese Actionism, one of the most controversial episodes of the 1960s. Â Viennese Actionism represents a…
A homecoming of passion and peril
A rescue mission ignites a dangerous attraction
