Non-Fiction

These essays skillfully reverse the lens on Henry James’s internationalist theme and focus on it from a European perspective. Multilingual and multicultural, Sergio Perosa interprets afresh the meetings and clashes between European and American characters in James’s work, as well as their attitudes, customs, and values

Nesta Robert Marley emerged from French Town, an impoverished neighborhood in Kingston, Jamaica, to become the first Reggae superstar, an icon of the Rastafarian religion, only to succumb to brain cancer at age 36. He was mourned worldwide and continues to be recognized as reggae’s greatest genius…

From a troubled childhood in suburban New Jersey, Bruce Springsteen has made a unique musical journey to become one of the world’s most popular and enduring stars. As a writer, singer, guitarist, recording artist, and performer he has formed an emotional bond with his audience of a strength few other entertainers have ever managed.

A Philosophical Library Book

A concise guide to the watershed moments in mathematical history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the extraordinary thinkers who produced them, including a fascinating examination of Japanese achievements in infinitesimal mathematics.

The rollicking memoir of a true American original: inventor, entrepreneur, businessman and raconteur.

“Mr. Howard is an inventor and an engineering-oriented, enterprising businessman. He is a pragmatic visionary whose technological inventions have been the forerunners of the established technologies of today…(he is) a pioneer and leader among men.” – Kofi Annan

With an Introduction by Malachy McCourt
The legendary McCourt brothers Frank and Malachy are true seanachies—spellbinding storytellers in the Irish oral tradition. Anyone fortunate enough to have seen them perform their revue A Couple of Blaguards knows that the geniuses who brought us Angela’s Ashes, A Monk Swimming, and their other memoirs (among the best-selling in history) were in full flower long before they were famous authors.

It is no longer unusual for a pop artist to have a career that spans decades; many great performers who started out in the sixties and seventies still have that magnetic draw that fills stadiums today., while others who have mastered the art of reinvention manage to attract new, young fans despite the passing of years. For Elton John, the truth of his eternal success lies somewhere else…

During the early Renaissance, which had its source in Italy and its hub in Florence, culture and the arts underwent a radical renewal that gradually spread through the rest of Europe, to varying degrees and in different stylistic forms. Underpinning the Renaissance was a new fascination with the ancient world—its philosophy and literature, its mythology and art—together with the ideas of Neo-Platonic philosophy and humanist culture. Interest in science broadened…

Photography by Derek Kendall
More than 1700 photographs, most of which have been taken specifically for this book, offer panoramic and detailed views of 180 interiors ranging from Harrow School, to the timbered barn at Harmondsworth, to an Art Deco masterpiece, the Daily Express Building at Fleet Street…

Lovers of architecture, and especially lovers of London, will welcome this new tool for exploring the glories of the city.

Born in Bay City, Michigan, on August 16, 1958, Madonna Louise Veronica was the third child of Madonn and Silvio Ciccone. When she was only five years old her mother died and Madonna later said that her loss so early was a major factor in her attitude toward life: “I think the the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For Example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations…

A Philosophical Library Book

Mozart was a Mason and his Magic Flute is widely considered the most outstanding artistic expression of Masonic philosophy. In this book, Professor Nettl puts The Magic Flute into the context of Mozart’s life and work, and shows how the core Masonic concepts of liberalism and humanity influenced other eighteenth century composers such as Beethoven, Wagner and Sibelius.

Throughout his extraordinary career, Muhammad Ali’s influence on boxing changed the sport forever. This book charts the life of this fascinating and complex man from the time he caught the public eye when, as Cassius Clay, he won a gold metal at the Olympic Games in Rome.

Author Elizabeth Sharland visits the homes of authors, actors and composers, and muses on settings in which their creative work was done. She visits: George Sand’s home in Nohant, Maugham, Ivor Novello (London), Puccini in Lake Lago, Coward in Jamaica, G.B. Shaw in Ayot St. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield in Menton, Paul Bowles in Morocco and Lady Gregory in County Galway.

This new collection is O’Rourke’s third volume of a diverse mixture of long and short articles and it extends his reputation as a brilliant social historian and curmudgeonly contrarian. More political than his previous two volumes (Signs of the Literary Times, 1993; Confessions of a Guilty Freelancer, 2012), it additionally serves as an illuminating memoir of his literary generation. These provocative pieces analyze the contemporary turbulent period, from the Obama years to the dawn of the Trump era.

Edited and Introduced by George Harrison

“Shankar, a sitar player known as the godfather of world music for his role in opening Western ears to sounds from the East, gives an honest, in-depth look at his life and work in this prodigious autobiography. Like a fine musical composition, Shankar beautifully narrates his life’s milestones…” – Publishers Weekly

“Unpretentious and spiritually illuminating as Shankar’s music.” – Kirkus Reviews

“Breathtaking… beautifully designed, copiously illustrated… tells Shankar’s story well in the artist’s own, often spiritual words.” – Billboard

“For me, a Jacuzzi is a person, not a machine. A Jacuzzi is a member of my family,” writes engineer and entrepreneur Remo Jacuzzi, in this epic memoir of his astonishingly large and enterprising family. Jacuzzi whirlpool devices, with which they are popularly identified, are the least of their inventions, since during the last century these immigrants from Italy revolutionized the airplane industry, remade the landscape of American with their injector water pumps, and founded international companies that transformed the lives of all Americans.

This is the Italian-language version of SPIRIT, WIND & WATER, Remo Jacuzzi’s family history.

“Originating in Friuli, in the far Northeast of Italy (where the dialect contains a “J” — hence the name), the huge Jacuzzi clan began immigrating to the United States shortly before World War I. One brother, a brilliant inventor named “Rachele,” devised the “Toothpick,” a super-efficient propeller, which revolutionized the airplane industry. He and his kin then went on launch a series of inventions — including water pumps, crop-defrosters, and eventually the hydrotherapy devices which bear their name. The whirlpool bath, however, is only one of the countless innovations…”