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Duel Without End
In this panoramic and up-to-date account, we learn how the Black Death, smallpox, the Spanish flu and other great epidemics have led to enormous sufferings and mass death, as well …
French Suite
French Suite examines a range of important French painters and two writers, Baudelaire and Flaubert, from the brothers Le Nain in the mid-seventeenth century to Manet, Degas, …
Curious Devices and Mighty Machines
Science museums have paradoxes at their core. They must be accessible and fun while representing increasingly complex science. They must be both historic and contemporary. Their …
Curious Devices and Mighty Machines
From their quirky origins to their contemporary role as centers of advocacy, a look at the secret lives of science museums-past, present, and future. Science museums have paradoxes …
Hope and Fear
A myth-busting journey through the twilight world of fringe ideas and alternative facts. Is a secret and corrupt Illuminati conspiring to control world affairs and bring about a …
Designing Modern Japan
From Muji to Sony televisions, our lives are surrounded by Japanese design. We think we know it, whether it reflects calming minimalism, avant-garde catwalk fashion or the Kawaii …
Full-Length Mirror
Beautifully illustrated, a stirring and wide-ranging reflection on art, technology, culture-and the full-length mirror. This book tells two stories about the full-length mirror. …
The Index of Prohibited Books
For more than four hundred years, the Catholic Church’s Index Librorum Prohibitorum struck terror into the hearts of authors, publishers and booksellers around the world, while …