Examines the truths and myths surrounding the voyages of Columbus, presenting an alternative history intended to differ from that offered in many school textbooks.
This collection of essays offers fresh and often unexpected perspectives on the history, methods, and ethics of science, as well as informative and accessible ways of thinking about contentious current debates on the relations between science, religion, literature, and society.
A glimpse into how the world views American history is offered in a study that presents a wide range of conflicting takes on events from textbooks in which many are the only authorized source of American history in their respective countries.
Contemporary Chinese vegetarian cuisine
Rock crystal
by Mayer, Elizabeth, Stifter, Adalbert, Moore, Marianne
fromNew York Review Books classics
Two children, Conrad and Sanna, walk from their village in the Alps to visit their grandparents the day before Christmas. On their journey home, they take a wrong turn and are feared lost in a snowstorm.
Jammed full of facts, figures, cartoons, and commentary, 'The Coffee Book' covers coffee from its first use in Ethiopia in the sixth century to the dramatic rise of specialist retailers in the 1990s.
"Everyone knows what modern architecture looks like, but few understand how this revolutionary new form of building emerged little more than a century ago or what its aesthetic, social, even spiritual aspirations were. Martin Filler offers insights into this unprecedented cultur…
