Books about minutia

Perowne makes his way to his weekly squash game through London streets filled with hundreds of thousands of anti-war protestors. A minor car accident brings him into a confrontation with Baxter, a fidgety, aggressive, young man, on the edge of violence. To Perowne's professional eye, there appears to be something profoundly wrong with him.

Including an illustrated introduction, this book follows the domestic adventures of a cat in episodic illustrations that celebrate the sweetly universal quirks that endear our feline friends to cat-lovers everywhere.

Every day between his thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth birthdays, photographer Byron Wolfe gave himself the task of making one new picture. This collection presents images that reveal how serious creative work can stem from the most ordinary settings. They are deeply personal in their subject matter, yet universal in their simplicity.

The Rose Bakery is a small Anglo-French restaurant, shop and bakery, tucked away in a street near the Gare du Nord in Paris. This book introduces this hidden gem and the philosophy and style of its creator. Illustrated with more than 100 photographs, it includes recipes for 100 of Rose Bakery's most popular dishes.

In a house full of guests, Max - an Oscar-winning writer/director whose fame has waned - and his lover, Elena, share their stories of Hollywood past and present, their fears provoked by the Iraq war. They watch films in Max's luxury screening room and gossip by the swimming pool and tussle in the many bedrooms as the tension mounts and sparks fly.

A suburban family are on their annual fortnight's holiday at Bognor: man and wife, a grown-up daughter working for a dressmaker, a son just started in a London office, and a younger boy still at school. This book presents a day-by-day account of their holiday from their last evening at home until the day they packed their bags for their return.

A chronicle about raising a family in the middle of Manhattan.

A beautifully illustrated memoir.

In 1960, East German writer Christa Wolf received a phone call from a Moscow newspaper asking if she would describe her experiences on a single day, September 27, 'as precisely as possible'. She was intrigued by the request and has continued recording her thoughts and feelings on that day ever since. This book collects forty of these intimate works. Wolf describes forty years of world history ...

Presents a guide to personal style, sharing practical information and modern dress etiquette guidelines in such areas as identifying flattering colors and cuts and preparing a wardrobe for a variety of needs and occasions.

A sketchbook of smart observations of contemporary Japanese culture. Kate Williamson's postgraduate fellowship took her to Kyoto for a year where she witnessed the nuances of Japanese life and filled her journals with her observations.

Born in 1865, Mary Olivier is the youngest of four. Mamma, the archetype of all women who rule through weakness and suffering, dominates her Victorian household, idolizing her sons, rejecting the independent love of her only daughter. Mary, in response, both adores and hates her mother.

This text is a meditation on how dust has been experienced and the small has been imagined. It examines Western civilization, from the naturalism of medieval philosophy, to the artistry of the Renaissance, to the scientific and industrial revolutions, to modern nanotechnology and viral diseases.