Prague has been one of the most significant cities in European Judaism for many centuries. Alongside notable buildings such as the Old-New Synagogue, the Pinkas Synagogue, the Old Jewish Cementery and the Jewish Town Hall, there are the stories, myth...

This book does reproduce some wondrous shoes by top designers. But its focus lies outside the kingdom of fashion, in the lowly outpost of social history, where shoes generally appear only as modest, utilitarian artifacts. Here, the two worlds are sho...

The presented dictionary constitutes the first part of the planned two-volume work devoted to the question of Perso-Arabic loanwords in Hindustani. The aim of this work was to gather and explain meaning of linguistic units originating in Parisian or...

'It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself' Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius. One of 46 new books in the bestselling L...

A gripping portrait of the western Himalayan land sometimes known as "Little Tibet," "Ancient Futures" opens with author Helena Norberg-Hodge's first visit in 1975 to idyllic, preindustrial Ladakh. She then tracks the profound changes that occurred a...

"There is also another isle where the people live just on the smell of a kind of apple; and if they lost that smell, they would die forthwith" Immediately popular when they first appeared around 1356, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville became the sta...