A concise, clear-eyed account of the flamboyant poet Byron’s life and work.
A wonderfully illustrated account of the giant planet Jupiter.
A concise, cogent biography of avant-garde writer, critic and publisher Ford Madox Ford.
The first work in English to tell the full story of Claude Cahun’s art and life.
A biography of perhaps the most important poet of his generation, John Ashbery.
A superbly illustrated scientific and cultural account of wind.
A chronicle of the controversial made-for-TV band the Monkees.
The controversial history of chemical and biological weapons.
A rogues’ gallery of the worst leaders in military history.
A multi-faceted, clear-eyed history and assessment of fasting.
A new account of the brilliant and influential yet combative naturalist Richard Owen.
The fascinating life and work of the groundbreaking, free-spirited modernist poet H.D.