Upcoming title.- Written by award-winning jazz historian Ted Gioia, this comprehensive guide offers an illuminating look at more than 250 seminal jazz compositions. In this...

El rostro de la batalla is military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of individuals at the "point of maximum danger." Without the myth-making...

Emilia Pardo Bazán had a long-lasting epistolary relationship with Benito Pérez Galdós, with whom she exchanged an enormous number of letters during the most creative years...

• This book tells the story of kitchen utensils and devices, revealing the technology and customs which have defined cooking today and in the past, from the wooden spoon to...

In Últimas voluntades, John Lukacs paused to set down the history of his own thoughts and beliefs, an adroit blend of autobiography and personal philosophy. He expands his...

The Perfect American is a fictionalized biography of Walt Disney's final months, as narrated by Wilhelm Dantine, an Austrian cartoonist who worked for Disney in the 40s and 50...

In the grand tradition of the scholar-adventurer, acclaimed author Richard Cohen takes us around the world to illuminate our relationship with the star that gives us life....

Besides inventing engines and turbines, dreaming about a world of remote-controlled vessels and wireless towers, erecting huge magical laboratories from which lightning and ar...

Jazz is the most colorful and varied art form in the world and it was born in one of the most colorful and varied cities, New Orleans. From the seed first planted by slave...