Every single one of the letters you're reading right now can tell a fascinating story, having been on a long linguistic, historical, political and social journey to reach this very page. The English alphabet is a tool that we've inherited down the centuries from ancient creators around the world.

A stunning exploration of London’s most beautiful, interesting and unusual members’ club architecture and interiors. Newly commissioned photography, text by Andrew Jones, travel writer for the Financial Times and author of The Buildings of Green Park. Foreword by interior designer Nina Campbell OBE.

The watch collections of 30 celebrities, from Jay-Z, Ed Sheeran and Tyler the Creator to Serena Williams, Andy Warhol and Lewis Hamilton. Illustrates what makes watch collecting so compelling, and why timepieces symbolise more than just timekeeping.

From warrior queens and the 300 to the Peloponnesian war, a major new history of the world's first superpower

An in-depth collection of the rich influences and sources of inspiration behind one of animated cinema’s all-time greats, and Japanese cinema’s most popular cultural export.

A comprehensive monograph on Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the great masters of modern architecture

This comprehensive monograph on the renowned twentieth-century architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, explores both his major architectural designs and many of his minor projects in detail. Robert McCarter analyses Wright’s work chronologically, exploring each building’s spatial experience, material and tectonic character, and relationship to the landscape.

Now in a fully revised and updated new editi...

A New York Times bestseller and an “enriching…brilliant” (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Frederick Douglass) examination of what “the pursuit of happiness” meant to our nation’s Founders and how that famous phrase defined their lives and became the foundation of our democracy.

The Declaration of Independence identified “the pursuit of happiness” as one of our unalienable rights, along with life and liberty. Jeffr...

For readers of Work Won't Love You Back and A History of America in Ten Strikes, the leader of the Starbucks and Tesla union movements shares stories from the front lines to help workers organize their own workplace.

How do we know what's true? The author of the bestselling The Rules of Contagion searches over two thousand years of history and science to find out

Tuintherapie en therapeutische tuinen zijn binnen het Vlaamse zorglandschap voorlopig nog onbekende begrippen. In deze praktijkmap leer je wat de begrippen precies omvatten en wat de betekenis is van therapeutisch tuinieren binnen de ouderenzorg, vanuit een theoretische en wetenschappelijke achtergrond. Wat zijn de voordelen van groenactiviteiten, en wat is er haalbaar in woonzorgcentra?

In veel woonzorgcentra is actief tuinieren geen evidentie voor alle bewoners. Daarom bespreken we in deze ...