Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. This book is about a strange object-strange in part because it is something that we all ha...
A dazzling, sweepingnovel telling the history of Singapore through the moving stories of three families whose lives become intertwinedSingaporea trading post where different lives jostle and mix. I...
What exactly is involved in using particular case histories to think systematically about social, psychological and historical processes? Can one move from a textured particularity, like that in Fr...
A place of spectacle and ruin, Mumbai exemplifies the cosmopolitan metropolis. It is not just a big city but also a soaring vision of modern urban life. Millions from India and beyond, of different...
Private houses, museums, restaurants, pubs, a former cinema, and numerous little-known treasures jostle for attention in this beautifully photographed collection of weird and wonderful interiors in...
In the tradition of Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, demons of the Third Reich live on in this alternative history of Nazi dementia and rivalry. Hitler, Braun, G ring, Goebbels, Himmler...
"Vivid, gripping and actually riveting as the Red Danger takes a whole new meaning here. Loved it." --The Book SmugglersIt is the waning days of the Russian monarchy. A reckless man rules the land ...
We live in a society that has taught us that humility, sacrifice and servanthood are all signs of weakness. We are encouraged to be prideful and jostle for position; all at the expense of developin...
This is a reader's guide to Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness as art, not as a page-turner but as art. As he has done with other works of Conrad, Anderson traces Conrad's art in a line-by-line analy...