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Vermeer's Hat
'Effortless and compelling, Brooks is a wonderful storyteller. I doubt I will read a better book this year.' Sunday Telegraph Each of Vermeer's paintings tells a story. In one, a …
Fight of the Century
The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that …
The Confusions of Pleasure
The Ming dynasty was the last great Chinese dynasty before the Manchu conquest in 1644. During that time, China, not Europe, was the center of the world: the European voyages of …
The Layman's Breviary
The Jobsiad
Victoria and Honey's Adventures in The Butterfly Bus
Victoria and Honey's Adventures in The Butterfly Bus is one wild ride, as four-year-old Victoria and a four-foot roly-poly named Jerrome P. Bug venture out in a butterfly-powered …
Mr Selden's Map of China
In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden, a London business lawyer, political activist, former convict, MP …
Schiller's Homage Of The Arts
Plish and Plum
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Roman Rhymes
Roman Rhymes - being winter work for a summer fair is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1869. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic …
Opium Regimes
Opium is more than just a drug extracted from poppies. Over the past two centuries it has been a palliative medicine, an addictive substance, a powerful mechanism for concentrating …
Ancient Rhetoric and the Style of Paul's Letters
Previous scholarship that has examined Paul's letters in light of Greco-Roman rhetoric has focused predominantly on their argumentative strategies (inventio) and overall …