When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and charisma. But when Meaulnes disappears for several days, and returns with tales of a strange party at a mysterious house and a beautiful girl hidden within it, he has been changed forever.

On February 12th, 1809, two men were born an ocean apart: Abraham Lincoln in a one-room Kentucky log cabin; Charles Darwin on an English country estate. Each would see his life's work transform mankind's understanding of itself. This book shows how these two giants, who never met, changed the way we think about the very nature of existence.

From their signature Seafood Sausage and other fish and shellfish creations to salads and first courses, poultry and rabbit, meat and game, side dishes, and desserts, this cookbook contains Chanterelle's nouvelle cuisine classics. It is suitable for professionals and the armchair market.

Wayne Thiebaud has long been recognized as one of America's prominent modern artists. This title brings together 120 of Thiebaud's important paintings, watercolours and pastels. It contains essays that trace the course of his career from the 1950s onwards.

In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts of New York for the urbane glamour of Paris. In the grand tradition of Stein and Hemingway, Gopnik planned to walk the paths of the Tuilleries, to lead the fabled life of an American in Paris. This is a memoir of his five years as an American family man in Paris.

Adam Gopnik, the highly esteemed, prize winning New Yorker writer, moved his young family back to New York City in 2000. This is a chronicle about raising a family in the middle of Manhattan.

Since March 2000, photographer Joel Sternfeld has been documenting the abandoned elevated railway, the High Line, which runs down the West Side of Manhattan. Sometimes a river of grass, sometimes more like wheat fields of Canada, this unique ruin permits contemplation of nature, and of cityscape.

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

What is abstract art good for? What's the use - for us as individuals, or for any society - of pictures of nothing, of paintings and sculptures or prints or drawings that do not seem to show anything except themselves? This book presents an account of abstract art.

London Child of the 1870s is an autobiography.

A complete record of the public art installations sponsored by New York City's Percent for Art Program since 1983.

W.H. Bailey examines 56 paintings - including some well-known masterpieces - to explore how their frames, many designed by the artists themselves, relate to the pictures they surround.