The perfect companion to the Roman myths and the landscapes and ideas that shaped them.

A chronological guide to the fantastic world of Japanese myths, retelling the stories and exploring how Japanese mythology has changed over time.

Opens a door onto the world of pre-revolutionary Russia in original photographs taken during the last decades of Romanov rule. This title includes many remarkable colour images created using an early three-colourplate technique; these bring the remote past to life with an especially vivid jolt.

One of our most beloved writers reassess the electrifying works of literature that have shaped her lifeI sometimes think I was born reading . . . I can’t remember the time when I didn’t have a book in my hands, my head lost to the world around me.

An in-depth study of Russian architecture in the 20th century, through the work of Russian avant-garde architect Boris Velikovsky and featuring previously unpublished plans and photographs.

Combine concrete's stoicism with luscious vegetative environments and you get to the language of tropical modernism. In continuity with its founding principles from the mid 20th century, today's architectural visionaries renew the use of raw materials, such as exposed concrete, to explore functionality rather than aesthetics.

No matter if works are created in total symbiosis with the tropical landscape or surrounded by flourishing nature, Concrete Jungle presents the dichotomy of the rough ma...

A writer’s travels along the legendary yet contested Jordan River—exploring the long conflict over water supply