The Library

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography

“The most sensible, lucid, and engaging biography of Cotton Mather we have. A treasure for scholars and a lively account for anyone interested in early America.” – Emory Elliot, Princeton University

“A model of historical scholarship, consistently interesting; emarkable both for its enormous learning and for its clarity of analysis.” – Sacvan Bercovitch, Harvard University

“Written in a polished prose of luminous beauty…Lilith soars above the world of mundane reality and lures its readers into a world of sinister fantasy and haunting unreality. To read this book is to wander down the labyrinthine ways of the insane and to become lost in the dark corridors of madness.” – Orville Prescott, The New York Times

A comprehensive anthology of more than 1,800 zany verses organized thematically under twenty-five subject headings, including “Of Maiden Aunts and Virgin Girls,” “Trollops and Tarts,” “Homo-erotica,” and “Satin and Lace,” indexed by name, place, and first line. A truly indispensable addition to every discerning reader’s library!

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars by Suteonius (born 69 A.D.), covering the Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian, remains one of the most enlightening of all Roman histories. As a personal secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius had access to the Imperial and Senatorial archives and also gathered much information from eyewitnesses, checking his facts carefully and quoting conflicting evidence with bias.
Numerous integrated black-and-white illustrations that explore Roman life, religion and nature, combined in this edition with Robert Graves’s classic translation.

Selected from every corner of the earth, the fifty great archeological discoveries beautifully illustrated and explored in this fascinating book demonstrate the enormous range of human life on our planet. There are the classic lost cities: Pompeii, Troy, Machu Pichu; but also the less well known “€œ Tanis, Chan-Chan and Biskupin. Towns from Africa, the Far-East, Australia and the New World are all here, as well as the extraordinary cities of the Classical world and the Middle East.

An English Heritage Book
Foreword by HRH The Duke of Gloucester

“If the past is a foreign country, this evocative and arresting book documents its capitol city.” – Rowan Moore, The Evening Standard

“Here are 360 pages of sustained shock and awe…in pin-sharp clarity.” – Marcus Binney, The London Times

“..a magical book about the capital’s past.” – The (London) Sunday Times

“Each picture contains a novel in this deeply moving, unforgettable book…” – Duncan Fallowell, The Daily Express

“An important contribution to the effort to reverse the Third Reich’s criminal legacy.” – Publishers Weekly

“Impressive by the sheer magnitude of its subject and by the close texture of its investigative reporting.” – The London Times

Translated by Marie Ponsot
Illustrated by Soon Chun Cho
With an Introduction by Benjamin Ivry

Akin to Richard Wilbur’s triumphant rendering of Moliere into English, this translation of La Fontaine by acclaimed poet Marie Ponsot is agruably the finest ever achieved.

“In this original version we rediscover Verne’s highly personal style, his anguish, his symbolism “€œ everything that reasserts his talent as a writer.” – Olivier Dumas, president of the Jules Verne Society, from the Preface

“By its force, it inventiveness and its twists, this novel written in 1897 takes its place among Jules Verne’s most remarkable works.” – La Rà©publique du Centre

Magellania “€œ which refers to the region around the Strait of Magellan “€œ is the home of Kaw-djer, a man of Western origin whom the indigenous peoples look upon as a god because of his knowledge of medicine and his benevolent nature. A man whose motto is “Neither God nor master…

Photographs from the Royal Geographical Society, London

Mountains have left mankind awestruck since the beginning of time, with their beauty, mystery, danger, and spiritual appeal. The most forbidding of these, named after George Everest, who undertook in 1823 to survey the Himalayan mountain chain, has become the dernier cri for anyone adventurous (or crazy) enough to challenge the most inhospitable place on earth (also known as “The Third Pole”), the highest mountain on earth.

“Rich, complex, enormously exciting… A continually surprising and provocative tale.” – The New York Times

“Reading her work is like savoring a strong cup of tea: it’s brisk and refreshing, but also biting.” – The Baltimore Sun

To rendezvous with her archaeologist fiance in Jordan, Barbara Vaughn must first pass through the Mandelbaum gate “€œ which divides strife-torn Jerusalem. A half-Jewish convert to Catholicism, an Englishwoman of strong and stubborn convictions, Barbara will not be dissuaded from her ill-timed pilgrimage “€œ despite a very real threat of bodily harm…

Professor Yigael Yadin excavated the site from 1963 to 1965 in what was the largest archaeological enterprise even undertaken in the Holy Land. What he found confirmed the dramatic story recounted by Josephus almost two thousand years ago.

“Yigael Yadin’s great book… whose splendor matches that of the achievements which it records and that of the heroism it commemorates.” TLS

Maurice Ravel: A Life is the first convincing attempt to paint a portrait of the life and work of the hitherto enigmatic composer of Bolero, Piano Concerto for the Left Hand and L’enfant et Les Sortilèges.

“Excellent… (Ivry’s) point of departure, stressing Ravel’s sexuality and its manifestations in his creative life, adds a fresh dimension to the literature on the composer.” – Arbie Orenstein, Aaron Copland School of Music

“Friedrich Heer’s The Medieval World is learned, very wide in scope, and exciting in its boldness. Not a narrative but a survey of the main elements of the life and culture of the high Middle Ages, its describes its varied scene with a richness no narrative could attain.” – Anthony Quinton

Retro environments appeal to both the individual and collective memory and evoke nostalgic feelings.

The projects included in this book are designed by such cutting edge firms as Autobahn, Dizel & Sate, Gensler, Greg Natale, JMA, Karim Rashid, Marc Newson, Sebastian CG Segers, Marcio Kogan, Pichiglas/ Alfonso de la Fuerta, Retrovius Reclamation and Design, Shaun Clarkson, Slade Architecture, Studio 63 and Wary Meyers Decorative Arts; projects include homes, shops and hotels…

In this new work, Representative Jackson provides ample documentation and insightful analysis of the inextricable link between race and economics. More important, Jackson proposes a radical economic strategy and program of new human rights that would build “A More Perfect Union” for all Americans, make every American more economically secure and, hopefully, in a better position to come to grips with this enduring American legacy.

Most Wise and Valiant Ladies presents the lives of six outstanding medieval women: Joan of Arc,
Eleanor of Aquitaine, Margery Kempe, Hildegard of Bingen, Christine de Pisan, and Magaret Paston; beautifully complemented by contemporary illustrations and manuscripts.

“Biographer Haskins and theater historian N.R. Mitgang give us a Bo who challenged the white establishment and succeeded in opening doors for his race…One of the great accomplishments of this book is the devastating image it presents of the obstacles faced by a black performer in the first half of this century. The Bill Robinson who emerges from this study is an odd mixture of legend and flesh and blood.” – The New York Times

“The heroine races from the Kansas plains to the big city and the great world; and races out of adversity to a full life, taking some giddy turns along the way. Marjory Bassett’s lovely novel forces the pace for the reader, and for a brave, clear, surprising girl who deserves every bit of the good time that come comes to her. I read it without putting it down.” – Shirley Hazzard, author of The Transit of Venus and Greene on Capri

This opulent yet useful and informative book presents the latest architectural and interior design projects of the leading firms operating in New York City.

Buildings featured include The Museum of Arts and Design, Renaissance Hotel, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Gramercy Park Hotel, Switch Building, The New York Times Building, 7 World Trade Center, The Tribeca Building and NYU Department of Philosophy; stores include the Catherine Malandrino Boutique…

The immense expanse that opens up between Asia and the coast of America represents an ancient and fascinating world. On the routes traced by the winds and currents, populations and cultures appeared, integrated and split up over the course of the centuries, adapting themselves to a powerful nature that generated unique religious practices whose artistic manifestations are well known.
The history of Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Easter Island, and Polynesia originated with ancient migrations from the continent of Asia. The most distant in time, which took place about 40,000 years ago…

Oscar Wilde was without question the central literary figure of the fin de siecle, and, in his own words, ‘a man who stood in symbolic relation to his times.’. Celebrated first as a poet and writer of brilliant essays and charming fables, he was also a perceptive critic and an incisive moral and political thinker. Today, however, his fame rests mainly on his novel of artistic decadence, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the ever-popular play, The Importance of Being Earnest. From his first notoriety in the 1880s when he carried the message of the aesthetic movement of America, and through to the height of his fame as a wit and raconteur in the dizzy social whirl of London in the early 1890s, he had the world at his feet. But then it all went tragically wrong…

An English Heritage Book
Foreword by Dan Cruickshank

A spectacular sequel to Philip Davis’s Lost London, this lavish landscape-format book reproduces historic photographs commissioned by the London County Council – many of them in the early days of photography – to capture individual buildings and streets that, along with entire neighborhoods, were on the threshold of redevelopment.

Enlarging Lost London’s finest photographs reveals a wealth of hidden detail in these historic pictures — long gone street panoramas, often with haunting faces from the forgotten past live again…

“Heroes walk alone, but they become myths when they ennoble the lives and touch the hearts of all of us. For those who love soccer, Edson Arantes do Nascimento, generally known as Pele, is a hero.” – Henry Kissinger

“Pele is to Brazillian football what Shakespeare is to English literature.” – Joao Saldanha

“If Pele hadn’t been born a man, be would have been born a ball.” – Armando Nogueira