Igniting the masses in conflict, the emergence of cremation as a death rite has consumed the last century of American history in flames of debate and plumes of literary... Read More

“Eclectic encyclopedia” best defines this wonderfully informative, digressive and evocative cultural history. Matvejevic, a Croat and university lecturer in Zagreb, Paris... Read More

Widely known and admired for his elegant portraits of high society, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) enjoyed an extremely successful career as a painter. His artistic... Read More

In the recent words of artist Vito Acconci, “Architecture exists because nature is dangerous.” This book assumes a similar starting point for examining what constitutes and... Read More

Historians and general readers will welcome Frugé and Harlow’s well-illustrated, fully annotated translation of Duhaut-Cilly’s journals of his 1826-1829 trading voyage. The... Read More

It’s the 1880s in San Francisco. Railroads have been built, fortunes have been made, names have been changed to protect the guilty. The political machine runs with nary a snag... Read More

This biography of oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny reads like a novel, and fittingly so. For the life story of this brilliant, driven entrepreneur is the stuff of fiction, blending... Read More