The Library

Formed towards the end of the 1960s, Pink Floyd quickly became renowned for their progressive music and thoughtful lyrics, as well as for the psychedelic lighting effects and quadraphonic sound at their concerts. During the 1970’s they released a series of concept albums, beginning with the phenomenally successful The Dark Side of the Moon, which shot the group to instant superstardom…

“Compellingly readable… The light, elegant flow of the prose, with its sudden incursions of unexpected violence, is mesmerizing, and the reader is never in doubt that a master stylish, albeit a devious one, is at the controls.” – Publishers Weekly

“Bayley’s characters are distinctly subtle, constructed from qualifications and convolutions, and propelled by the rapidity of their thoughts. Their voices are held together by Bayley’s… style, at once genial, clear, and buoyant.” – TLS

“All the characters… give us the feeling that they are simply there for their own sakes, and being allowed by their author to be themselves.” – A.N. Wilson

“This is a sophisticated riddle of a book “€œ sly, delectable, and utterly satisfying.” – Booklist, starred review

The Renaissance, a vast cultural and ideological movement, was the period of intense literary, artistic and scientific creativity that involved Europe between the 14th and 16th centuries and marked the transformation from the medieval to a modern concept of the intellect. During the early Renaissance, focused and nurtured in Florence and in Italy, the arts and culture underwent a radical renewal that spread gradually across Europe by various means and stylistic expressions…

Comparatively little is known about the last of the Plantagenets, whose story is told here amidst copious illustration. The Life and Times series is edited, with introductions by Lady Antonia Fraser.

Translated by Julia Shirek Smith

Winner of the 1998 Prix Femina

“Superb…Lyric and philosophical, intimate and grand, The River Below has both an epic reach and a Taoist serenity.” – The New York Times

Road to Victory presents a detailed pictorial history of the last 14 months of the Second World War, capturing scenes of battles in the varied theaters across the globe where the endgame played out.

Robert Burns (1759-96), is still widely considered Scotland’s greatest poet and song-writer. His first poetry collection, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, a remarkable mixture of first-rate Scots poems, songs, verse letters, and poems in English, enjoyed an immediate and overwhelming success that would endure through the centuries.

Tells the 45-year story of the band that has truly earned the title “the greatest rock band in the world.” Since August, 2005, the band has grossed $437 million, playing 110 shows in front of 3.5 million fans.

This book of rare, classic and many unseen photographs is completely up-to-date…

The term Romanesque, however imprecise, is a useful key to our understanding of a period of profound innovation. Just as the romance languages shared a common root and became differentiated as they spread across Europe, the artistic language of the “Romanesque” diversified as it was interpreted in the various regions of Europe from the 11th century. This makes it possible to speak of a “European” art, even at a time of extreme geopolitical fragmentation. Common cultural references…

“Without question Ruminations is powerful, intelligent, insightful, and profound. Regardless of whether or not you agree with KRS-ONE’s analysis, you must certainly appreciate that there is a profound mind at work, and a definitive spirit that is searching to discover what is right and exact… For me, this book represents one bold, blue spark for this generation.”
-from the Forword by Tavis Smiley

“Hiphop’s primary culture-keeper… Brilliant, thought-provoking, humorous and contradicting… When it comes to this strange animal called Hiphop, KRS-ONE remains its most trusted guardian, preserver and spokesman.” – Black Beat

Ruminations includes a full-length audio CD featuring a selection of KRS-ONE’s lectures and spoken-word poetry, introduced by Dr. Cornel West.

Introduction by Malachy McCourt

“Freedom does not mean people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do and how you do it.” – Rudy Giuliani, New York Post Forum, 3/20/94

An album of photographs from the 2000 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in Cannes, France.

“I don’t usually feel very comfortable when people are taking my picture, but I feel more relaxed when I see Patrick backstage at a show or at a party. I feel I have a friend there, and it’s OK.” Stephanie Seymour

“If you don’t know Patrick McMullan you need to get out more!” Andy Warhol, 1985

“Patrick is the only photographer who can down 5 tequila, party with us, and still take a great photo – in focus no less!” Sean “Puffy” Combs

This is the official tie-in to the award-winning, widely praised 14-part television series based on the Sharpe novels of Bernard Cornwell. When aired in the UK, each segment drew an audience in excess of 10 million viewers.
“This is spectacular stuff, with more extras than Gandhi, and production values that ooze period detail and are always imaginative… grippingly watchable.” TIME OUT

“Silvia lived through one of the darkest periods of history, yet emerged with an unstoppable passion for life. She reminds us that no matter what hardships we endure, the human spirit always triumphs.” – Steven Spielberg

“Silvia has done more than survive unthinkable horrors, she has embraced a love of life that is contagious. Her story continues to inspire a belief in the possibilities for goodness in all of us.”
-James Moll, Executive Director, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation

Come Ride the Heart’s Secret Highway.
Illicit love brings spills and tumbles, intrigues and elations, secrets and lies, broken promises and shattered hearts — then, with a little luck, reflection and epiphany.

Edited by John Weber and Chuck Kim

Tony Soprano is a Mafia boss in New Jersey with two families–his wife and kids on one hand, his Mob family on the other–and he walks a fine line between the two. Time-honored traditions such as loyalty
and duty coexist with illegal operations and violent crimes. The wife and children occupy the place of honor., but goomars (mistresses) also have their place. Tony is pushed and pulled from all sides–no wonder he needs to see a shrink.

There is a parallel to be found between the universe of Tony Soprano and the world of the ancient Chinese philosophy known as Taoism: the challenge of a man navigating through a life filled with contradiction and paradox. Loosely arranged according to the principles found in the Tao Te Ching…

“With Tapped Out, Paul Simon has issued an important warning which, if heeded, has the potential to avert a devastaing natural disaster.” – Jimmy Carter

“In the past fifty years nations have gone to war over oil. In the next fifty years we are going to war over water,” according to Dr. Wally N’Dow, whom the Los Angeles Times called “the world’s foremost specialist on cities.”

“J.R. Salamanca is a brilliant writer, one of this country’s most remarkable stylists. His prose shimmers with light, with the exacting registers of emotion and thought. In That Summer’s Trance his subject is betrayal, both of oneself and others, in a culture of material rewards. It is an unforgettable story of one actor outdone by another, and it tells us more about role-playing, and the theater of everyday life, than I would have thought possible.” – Charles Baxter

Winner of the Thomas Cook/ Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award

“A learned, smartly observant, and very readable account…What is apparent throughout is that (this) book comes from a deep love of Ibn Battutah and of the Arab-Muslim world in which (Mackintosh-Smith) has spent most of his adulthood.” – The New Republic

“Mackintosh-Smith seems incapable of writing a dull sentence, and in him the scholar, the linguist and the storyteller swap hats with marvelous speed.” – The New York Times

“a very civilized book…” – Geoffrey Moorhouse, The New York Times

A veritable encyclopedia of murder, robbery, assassination, kidnapping and mayhem drawn from the incomparable archive of the Daily Mail, illustrated with previously unseen photographs and newspaper clippings that provide contemporaneous reporting.

More than 900 photographs depict a diabolical cast that includes Richard Hauptmann, John Wayne Gacy, John Gotti, Ian Brady, Myra Hindley, Buster Edwards, Dr. Crippen, Indonesia’s Suharto, Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, Derek Bentley, Timothy McVeigh, Bonnie & Clyde, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer and Al Capone.

In China, where Tui Na for children was established as a specialty as early as 500 B.C., child massage is available in all hospitals of traditional Chinese medicine, where it is used for the treatment of common childhood ailments. Now increasing awareness of Tui Na’s benefits is reaching the West.

Tui Na Massage for a Healthier, Brighter Child combines explicit instructions and full-color photography to demonstrate treatment routines for ailments such as colds, coughs, night crying, restlessness, colic, and teething…

Victoria reigned longer than any other British monarch, and while she was on the throne, Britain became the most powerful industrial nation in the world. Antonia Fraser is the general editor for the Life and Times series, and introduces each book.

Unless we’re actual combatants, the lens through which we view war is almost always that of the war correspondent, using either images, or words, or both. Here is an oversized volume which portrays in stark, and often horrifying detail how wars were documented over the past two centuries, since the dawn of photography. Graphics, propaganda posters, newspaper headlines, and other ephemera are liberally interspersed, as are seldom seen photos of lesser known wars.

“Feisty and crystal clear, this controversial work will appeal to readers of both sexes.”
– Publishers Weekly

“If you want to have raging love relationships, this book will show you how!” – Mark Victor Hansen, editor of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series.

“This is a must-read for men and women who love each other, hate each other, or simply co-exist. You will learn as much about yourself and how to improve your relationship as you will about the opposite sex.” – Denis Waitley, bestselling author of The Psychology of Winning