While most people tend to think of Britain as urban and developed, the author, a well-traveled British native, said the toughest part about writing a guidebook featuring nature was deciding what to leave out. In covering England,... Read More

If Adam could get Eve to stop talking for just one minute, he could appreciate her beauty and fall in love with her. So opens this curious set of intertwined diaries of Earth’s first two human inhabitants as “translated” with... Read More

The great American dream for many people is to own their own business. Successful Independent Consulting provides a simple, yet detailed outline for developing a business in one of the fastest growing, lucrative markets for skilled... Read More

This counting book has few words to mar Butler’s exquisite illustrations. In the first book that he has both written and illustrated, Butler has chosen his words well, but the value of this book comes from the paintings that are so... Read More

The eighteenth century English actress Sarah Siddons has once again taken the stage. Appearing first at the Getty Museum this summer in an art exhibition of ten portraits of her in various roles, she now stars in a volume of essays... Read More

When the subject of this biography died in 1881, his cremated remains were buried in Rome alongside one of English Romanticism’s most revered poets, Percy Bysshe Shelley. It was a final public relations coup for Trelawny, who had... Read More

In the first volume of their stunning biography of the French author Colette (published November, 1998), Francis and Gontier not only showed the sensuality, talent and wide-ranging life of the ultimate libertine, but also her weaknesses,... Read More

She was a twenty-two year old Fulbright scholar from New York fleeing her immigrant Italian family’s claustrophobic love, he was a thirty-eight year old Catholic priest from the city’s Irish tenements of Hell’s Kitchen, researching... Read More