Memoirs & Journals

Biographies of artists and writers have traditionally presented an individual's lone struggle for self-expression. In this book, critics and histor...

Drawing on the author’s personal experience of living and working as an architect in Syria, this timely and fascinating account offers an eyewitnes...

From Classical times to the 19th century, the great quest to discover and define the intoxicating diversity of the natural world attracted a host o...