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The garden is the image of Paradise in the Quran. John Brookes traces its physical origins to age-old methods of irrigation, and charts its spread with the spread of Islam in India, Persia, Turkey, Egypt, Sicily, North Africa and Muslim Spain.

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The West Indian kitchen today, five hundred years after Columbus, is a wonderful blend of flavors and cooking styles. The islands are blessed with some of the richest soils in the world, and the different peoples who have settled there have developed a vibrant hybrid cuisine. Scottish rebels, enslaved Africans, indentured Portuguese and Chinese, and finally the East Indians-all of these brought with them their traditional foods and cooking tec...

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This engaging chronicle asks and answers the question, 'How has Connecticut's Hotchkiss School managed to accomodate a hundred years of unprecedented change?

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Norman Page uses poems, memoirs, letters, and more than 70 photographs (many of which have never before been reproduced) to disentangle the man from the Poet Laureate, and to illuminate the life of one of the most memorable of the Victorians.

This provocative and well-researched book addresses situations and questions of the post-WWII world that have long needed attention. Christine Lindey remedies the dearth of information available on the nature of modern Russian art about which all but a few dedicated professionals have only perfunctory or vaguely formulated ideas.--Choice

Anya is a South African exile who manages-con brio-a dress shop in London. Laczi is a sculptor who left his country for England after the Soviets put down the Hungarian uprising. The encounter of these two particular beings is cosmic, passionate, and troubled.

Rarely exhibited and in superb condition, the watercolor collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, is one of the finest in the world.

In eight illuminating chapters we have the history of the Eternal City--Ancient Roman, Early Christian, Romanesque, Renaissance, Baroque, and Rococo--the history of the buildings themselves, and Lees-Milne's inspired description and criticism of them as architectural masterpieces.

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From the bestiaries in the collections of the British Library Ann Payne has culled...wonderful illustrations....She has linked them with a sampling of the poetry, the folk wisdom, and the romantic imagination of the formative years of Western civilization."-The Antioch Review

The art and science of chimney sweeping are examined in detailed for the first time in this lively and fascinating book.