Against Art
Star Ratings:Language:Spanish
Releasing Date:2025-10Categories:Social Sciences
There are many reasons for reissuing this essential book, published for the first time in 2009, now revised by the author. Among others, issues raised by Maillard still unresolved. Perhaps the most urgent, “the necessary recovery of the usefulness that the arts always had until Kant’s definition of it as an activity that is an e... Read More
The Idea of Persia: A Philosophical Enquiry
Star Ratings:Language:English
Releasing Date:2025-10Categories:Philosophy
In 1721, in his famous Lettres persane (The Persian Letters), the French philosopher Montesquieu posed the question ‘Comment peut-on être persan?’ The answer to that question is perhaps an even more wide-ranging, challenging and fascinating conundrum today. In his exploration of where such an answer might be found, the renowned ... Read More
Casement
Star Ratings:Language:English
Releasing Date:2025-10Categories:Leaders & Notable People
At the time of his execution for treason in 1916, few were aware who Roger Casement was or what he represented. Since then, he has been lauded for his investigations into Belgian brutality in the Congo Free State and human rights abuses in the Peruvian rubber industry, but much else about him has remained obscured behind specula... Read More
Franco-UPDATED SECOND EDITION
Star Ratings:Language:English
Releasing Date:2025-10Categories:Leaders & Notable People
★UPDATED SECOND EDITION!★Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Franco’s death and the end of one of the longest fascist dictatorships in Europe. Read More
The Arab Hall: Frederic Leighton: Traveller and Collector
Star Ratings:Language:English
Releasing Date:2025-10Categories:Architecture
The distinguished Victorian artist and President of the Royal Academy Frederic Leighton was a prominent member of society–he was knighted in 1878, made a baronet in 1886 and given a peerage in 1896. He adored the house he built in Holland Park: it was his home, his studio and his entertaining space. Its construction and decorati... Read More
Thoughtlands: Walking in Writers’ Suffolk
Star Ratings:Language:English
Releasing Date:2025-10Categories:Travel Writing
This is a book is about walking and writing; about walkers who wrote, and writers who walk. And because it is a book about walking and writing it is also a book about thinking, the circuit that exists between mind and feet, and about moving through a landscape that can be both physically in front of you, and exist in a line of ... Read More
Turin: How Italy’s First Capital Lost a Nation and Made a World
Star Ratings:Language:English
Releasing Date:2025-10Categories:Travel Writing
Unknown to most foreigners, as they follow each other round Florence and Siena, Rome and Venice, the Italy they see today is the result of a second renaissance. And its seat was a city they need to discover, in all its enigmatic allure, if they are truly to understand modern Italian society and culture. That city is Turin.Risorg... Read More
Fight for the Right to Read: Samuel Wilbert Tucker and the 1939 Sit-Down Strike for Library Reading Equality
Star Ratings:Language:English
Releasing Date:2025-10Categories:Picture Books
Award-winning author Jeff Gottesfeld and #OwnVoices co-writer Michelle Y. Green introduce us to another important historical figure who deserves to be better known.Along with illustrator Kim Holt, Gottesfeld and Green bring vibrant life to the story of Wilbert Tucker who grew up in the segregated South and became a lawyer who lo... Read More
Godlike Expert
Star Ratings:Language:Simplified Ch.
Releasing Date:2025-10Categories:Chinese Web Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy Urban Life
Set amidst the vibrant backdrop of a bustling modern city, the narrative follows Du Lei, a denizen of the jade and feng shui district, who, after a freak accident involving a piece of the precious stone, is rendered unconscious and inherits the memories of the legendary ancient divine beast, Ba Xia. This incident triggers the on... Read More
Awaken:15 Milestones to Personal Growth
Star Ratings:Language:Complex Ch.
Releasing Date:2025-10Categories:Emotions Personal Transformation Success Psychology
★ A evergreen classic tested by 25 years in the market, now in its 8th revised edition with brand-new content addressing today's most pressing social concerns.★ Organized along three axes—time, relationships, and inner structure—the book systematically unpacks fifteen pivotal moments in personal growth. This anniversary edi... Read More
The Stellar Academy：⑤The Interstellar Celebration
Star Ratings:Language:Simplified Ch.
Releasing Date:2025-10Categories:Science Fiction & Fantasy
★ The first children's sci-fi masterpiece by Hao Jingfang, world-class sci-fi writer and Hugo Award winner!In 2016, her novel “Folding Beijing” won the 74th Hugo Award for Science Fiction. She is the second Chinese sci-fi author after Liu Cixin to receive a Hugo Award, and the first Asian woman to receive the Hugo Award.*Th... Read More
The Stellar Academy： ④Escape from the Sage Tower
Star Ratings:Language:Simplified Ch.
Releasing Date:2025-10Categories:Science Fiction & Fantasy
★ The first children's sci-fi masterpiece by Hao Jingfang, world-class sci-fi writer and Hugo Award winner!In 2016, her novel “Folding Beijing” won the 74th Hugo Award for Science Fiction. She is the second Chinese sci-fi author after Liu Cixin to receive a Hugo Award, and the first Asian woman to receive the Hugo Award.*Th... Read More
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