Dracula (1897) begins with a young solicitor, Jonathan Harker, on his way to Transylvania to meet Count Dracula, who is buying...

Dynamic and engaging, the human figure is an enduringly popular subject for artists, presenting constant challenges and many...

‘The dream is the (disguised) fulfillment of a (suppressed, repressed) wish.’

In this fascinating work by one of the pioneers...

On the bleak streets of Dublin, a young boy grieves over the death of an irreligious priest, a woman elopes with her lover, and a...

Sun Tzu, Лао-Цзы

Sincerity is the end and the beginning of all things; without sincerity there would be nothing. - Inazo Nitobe, The Way of the...

This concise guide to the ideas of some of history's most influential Eastern thinkers offers a detailed, accessible analysis of...

What could have happened to me?...How did I soar to such heights, above the rabble sitting by the well?'Ecce Homo is Nietzsche's...

This lavishly illustrated full-colour hardback explores the life and work of French modernist painter Eduard Manet.

Manet was...

The diminutive Joaquin Guzman Loera, known universally by his nickname of 'El Chapo' ('Shorty' in Spanish), is the...

A perfect introduction for students and laypeople alike, A Degree in a Book: Electrical and Mechanical Engineering provides you...

'Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich...had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex...

Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or...

Jane Austen was born on 16 December 1775 at Steventon. a small village in Hampshire, England. She received nearly all her...

From Descartes’ famous line ‘I think therefore I am’ to Kant’s fascinating discussions of morality, the thinkers of the...

'When I first began tinkering with a software program that eventually gave rise to the idea of the World Wide Web, I named it...

An essential kit for learning guitar chords, with flash cards and an instruction book encased in a sleek hinged box with magnetic...

This essential guide features a wide range of practical and decorative knots. It is ideal for anyone looking to learn the basics...

Edith Whartons novella Ethan Frome (1911) is a classic of American literature. Mattie Silver, a young and guileless girl, is...

Edith Wharton's novella Ethan Frome (1911) is a classic of American literature. Mattie Silver, a young and guileless girl, is...

Evil Families examines the lives of families who are bad to the bone with malevolence in their DNA. From wicked dynasties in...

The FBI estimate that there are between 25 and 50 serial killers at large in the USA at any given time. But the truth is few...

Here's a collection to entertain the more experienced sudoku fan. The puzzles included have been selected to offer a challenging...

This brilliant collection contains puzzles and their solutions in extra large-print type, so that they are easy for everyone to...

This brilliant sudoku collection contains puzzles and their solutions in extra large-print type, so that they are easy for...

This brilliant collection contains puzzles in extra large-print, 26 point, type, so that they are easy for everyone to read, and...

This beautifully illustrated, full-colour hardback presents an inspiring collection of 15 stories from around the world, retold...

Forced by the death of her parents to seek her fortune in London, Fanny Hill is duped into prostitution by an old procuress. In...

Into the sleepy village of Weatherburv arrives one day Bathsheba Everdene, come to take charge of her late uncle's thriving farm....

Into the sleepy village of Weatherbury arrives one day Bathsheba Everdene, come to take charge of her late uncle's thriving farm....

Into the sleepy village of Weatherbury arrives one day Bathsheba Everdene, come to take charge of her late uncle's thriving farm....