A beautifully illustrated celebration of this stylish, practical and important accessory.
Traces the history of ideas about dragons, from ancient times to Game of Thrones and beyond.
A history of the fabled heroes and miracles of the Middle Ages.
Drawing on the author's deep knowledge of the history and ecology of trees, Trees in Art shows that we can learn much about ourselves from the art of trees.
Part memoir, part manifesto, this is a celebration of the bicycle by French anthropologist Marc Augé.
A beautifully illustrated, authoritative overview of humankind’s fascination with the ringed planet Saturn.
The first definitive history of the corridor, from its origins in country house architecture to nightmare scenes in horror films such as Alien and The Shining.
A highly original and wide-ranging study of ‘the end’ in art.
Bountiful Empire: A History of Ottoman Cuisine examines the foodways of the Ottoman Empire as they changed and evolved over more than five centuries.
A brilliant new account of maverick French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard.
A fresh and exciting reappraisal of folklore outlaw Robin Hood.
People collect to connect with the past, personal and historic, to exercise some small and perfect degree of control over a... Læs mere